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audio won’t save as stereo
I’ve been asking this question in the Basics forum, but nobody seems to know, so maybe it’s more advanced than I thought.
FCP 5 won’t keep the audio on a VHS tape sent through firewire via a JVC HR-DVS1U miniDV/VHS deck as stereo. FCP is able to read it in as stereo as the FCP audio meter indicates, but then the log and capture process saves it to a file as mono. I’ve no idea why, and it’s extremely frustrating. Anybody know??? I’ve tried trashing prefs, etc. and nothing works. I can record the same tape to stereo using imovie, but it comes out at 32K, which is not what I want.
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Are you capturing it as strereo or dual mono? Either way, it’s the same thing. Drop it in the timeline and you can change it from dual mono to stereo with option+L or the other way around with option+L.
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I’m capturing as stereo, but the captured file plays only in mono in Quicktime, and appears to be lacking a channel. I can see that the input is being captured as stereo in log and capture on the audio monitor, but for some reason the file is ending up mono.
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Double check your clip settings tab in the log and capture window and make sure you are in fact capturing stereo.
Jeremy
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Yep, I checked and rechecked this many times. Always stereo.
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Since it’s so easy to fix, it’s probably not something to get all overworked about. However, if you are having the issue that it’s playing in “mono” because you are hearing it out of only, say, the left speaker and not the right one, that’s actually the “pan” setting is off. Move it back to the center and you’re good to go.
Also, if you have your timeline active with the “unlinked select” or whatever it’s actually called, all your audio is treated as mono lines because you have opted to select each individual track of a clip in your timeline on it’s own rather than keeping them as a contained unit of one-video-plus-two-stereo-audio-tracks.
Hope that helps.
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That you record with an stereo mic doesn’t mean that you are recording an stereo pair. The most normal is that you are recording the left mic in the CH1 and the right mic in the CH2.
Also that you VHS desk have an stereo out only means that what you get in one output is supossed to be what you should hear by one of your ears and in the other channel, for the other ear.
I don’t think you can capture a stereo pair with FC because FC do not allows you. There is not any preset for Stereo audio. You can capture two channels as a stereo pair, but you can not capture a ready made stereo pair.
PC people use something call Sceneanalyser”.
RafaelPPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE -
Hi mpxxxxx,
Please have a look to the page “I-300′ in the FC Help. It explain what I tried to explain. DV camcorders in the end record to mono channels (Left and Right). Is up to you mix them together in a stereo pair when downloading. However I would rather capture as two independent channels so they can be managed individually.
rafaelPPC G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM/BlackMagic SD/PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM
JVC DTV-17″/FCS2/AE CS3/COMBUSTION/SHAKE
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