Digitizing 24 Channels

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t think the documentation actually says that. You can capture and export up to eight tracks in hardware. FCP supports up to 24 tracks for a clip, or 24 tracks on export to software, but not to hardware.

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Tom

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[Mark Raudonis]

Multi-track audio is mostly “imported” not “Digitized”. Do a google search on “Broadcast Wave Files”.

mark

[Martin Baker]

Up to 24 channel audio capture is supported in FCP5. Most capture cards support up to 8 channels of embedded audio through SDI (though Kona 3 offers up to 16 channels of embedded). I’m not aware of any capture cards which offer more than 8 AES or analogue inputs.

So depending on how many channels you want to capture, the other possibility is to use a separate audio interface such as MOTU or RME. If the interface has Core Audio drivers available then it should appear as a device in FCP’s Capture Preset Editor. There may be A/V sync issues with this method although if you can genlock the audio interface then I would imagine it would work fine.

I doubt there is anyone who has ever tried this but in theory it would work.

Martin
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[Walter Biscardi]

[Tom Wolsky] “You can capture and export up to eight tracks in hardware. FCP supports up to 24 tracks for a clip, or 24 tracks on export to software, but not to hardware.”

Kona 3 allows up to 16 tracks of audio during capture. I have it installed and it immediately opened up 16 channels in the Log and Capture window.

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