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EDIT TO TAPE Audio channels greyed out! (Ch.4)
I have a project with 5 audio tracks. When I edit to tape the audio selector shows all 8 channels but channel 4 is ‘greyed out’ although it is checked. I have checked output and it is set to stereo, dumped the settings etc but Ch4 is still not available to change? Any ideas?
Roddy Jamieson
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3 Replies
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What deck are you outputting to? Does your video hardware support more than 2 channel out. Is the auido getting output AES/EBU or SDI? Did you set-up multi channel audio output in sequence settings. You need to give us a lot more info so we can answer your question.
Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc. -
I am perhaps misunderstanding the purpose of the this selection in Edit to Tape. I am an Avid editor of some 10 years, when you cut to tape you choose which channels on the time line to output to tape in 2 channels. Is this not what these options are for in FCP? I am editing to a DSR1500, 2 channels.
Roddy Jamieson
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You mentioned that you have five audio channels. Are you trying to output five discreet channels to the DSR-1500? The embedded SDI for that deck allows only four channels as far as I know.
Also, check your track output settings in the timeline. It’s a bit obtuse, but you need to right click on the track selector to see what track it’s patched to. If you’re trying to output four discreet channels to the deck you’ll need to set up a multi track output in the sequence settings. If you’re going for simple stereo just make sure that tracks are assigned properly in the timeline.
The Avid makes all this a bit simpler with it’s Audio Mix window where you assign tracks to their output channels. It’s all in one place on the Avid. In FCP it’s literally spread across three different windows (timeline, sequence setting, Edit To Tape).Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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