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Emergency Help: losing audio while capturing in FCP5
Hello..I am in desperate need of help. I am trying to capture my footage from a shoot yesterday and I am losing the audio at the end of every capture. When I play it back directly from my XL2 it is there…when I am listening/watching it in the log and capture process it is there…but when I go and vew it in FCP I lose the audio for the last few seconds of each take.
I am capturing with the check selected to capture video/audio both seperately. When I put a take in the timeline it shows the video footage longer than the audio footage.
My client is coming to my studio tomorrow morning to start viewing footage…can someone please help ASAP.
Thank you, Jeff.
Jeff Newton
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[Jeff Newton] “I am capturing with the check selected to capture video/audio both seperately.”
Deselect the audio/video to be seperate during capture. Also make sure your audio is being captured to the same folder as the video on your media drive. There is a choice in this regard, and capturing the video and audio to different folders or media drives invites problems.
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Does it have something to do with not allowing the log and capture to run all the way until the end of the take. It seems it I allow the capture process to go into the ‘blue’ per say that is when it happens but if I hit Esc right before it captures the audio all the way.
Does that make sense?
Jeff Newton
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Don,
Thanks for your quick response…I think I’ll probably try it your way also since Im on such a time crunch. Jeff.
Jeff Newton
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If you’ve set in and out points for log and capture it should work properly without having to hit escape before the capture is actually complete. Since you’re on a tight schedule I’d suggest you do whatever it takes to get a completed clip captured with the right length of audio.
Afterwards you could try to trash the FCP pref files and restart the program. They may have become corrupt and thus is affecting the way the capture process is working at the moment. Also make sure your capture preset is mirroring what you’ve actually got on your source tape i.e. DV NTSC 48kHz.
– DOn
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