can’t hear audio when capturing in FCP 5.1

[Stephen Adams]

HI,

I just want to be clear. I can SEE and HEAR it in the viewer when I record it. It’s fine. But when I capture it I see video only no audio but the meters read that its recording.

[Richard Harrington]

Hook speakers up to your deck

[Stephen Adams]

[Stephen Adams]

My apologizes let me explain again.

I’m importing the footage from my sony z1U via firewire to my mac. When I log and capture I see the footage and its records. The meters on the clip settings indicate both video and audio are recording. I see video in the log and capture window but I cannot hear audio. But when I play it in the main viewer:slug its fine.

[Tom Wolsky]

What Richard said. Hook the speakers to the deck. You shouldn’t monitor from the computer during capture. Monitor the camera or deck that’s feeding the computer.

All the best,

Tom

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[Ken Summerall]

Stephen,

While the other two posters are right, you should monitor from the deck. I know that for confidence purposes you would like to hear it coming from the computer. Here’s how, In the log and capture window under the second tab (i believe) is a little tick box that says something like “Monitor Audio on Capture” put a check in that box and you should hear your audio.

K

[Stephen Adams]

Hi gents,

I have my sony z1u camera hooked up to my mac via firewire. The time code in the log and capture window and the time code on my camera is correct and in sync but in the log and capture viewer its NOT in sync its a few frames off. It was working fine yesterday. Now its not. What did I do? How do I solve this?

[Ken Summerall]

[stephen adams] “The time code in the log and capture window and the time code on my camera is correct and in sync but in the log and capture viewer its NOT in sync its a few frames off.”

Do you mean that the timecode on your camera and the timecode displayed while you are capturing is a little off or do you mean that the audio is out of sync?

What drive are you capturing to and how is it connected?

K

[Ken Summerall]

[stephen adams] “The time code in the log and capture window and the time code on my camera is correct and in sync but in the log and capture viewer its NOT in sync its a few frames off.”

Do you mean that the timecode on your camera and the timecode displayed while you are capturing is a little off or do you mean that the audio is out of sync?

What drive are you capturing to and how is it connected?

K

[Stephen Adams]

time code on the camera & log and capture window are in sync.

But the video and audio are out of sync in the log and capture window. I haven’t recorded anything yet i’m just playing thru the camera.