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FCP Capture setting for built-in audio mini-jack?
Hi all,
On Friday (2/23), I audio recorded a 6-hour continuing education program that I’m just about to edit in FCP. I had a mixer and sent the audio to both a DAT deck and my MacBook Pro (17″, 2.33ghz with 30gb of available space out of 160gb). Luckily, the DAT deck recorded the whole thing because I couldn’t get FCP to capture!
I’m capturing the DAT tapes on my G5 Quad Desktop right now, but what input setting would I use to capture to the MacBook Pro via the audio mini-jack? I could see that FCP could see the audio via the audio meters in capture mode, but every time I tried to capture “now”, it would flash up the “now capturing” screen for a split second before leaving that much of a file created in the Capture Scratch folder and cancelling out.
I first tried capturing to my 5400rpm 160gb internal drive at first. Thinking that perhaps the speed was too slow, I plugged in my 7200rpm LaCie 500gb FW800 and tried to capture to that. Same result. I then even attached the LaCie with my FW800 ExpressCard and same result. I tried all kinds of presets, but every last one did the same thing. The strange thing is that the audio meters were in fact displaying the audio perfectly, it just wouldn’t capture “now” for longer than a split second.
I don’t know if this had anything to do with it, but when I got back Friday night, FCP 5.1.4 was available (I had FCP 5.1.3 installed). I downloaded and installed 5.1.4 last night and tried capturing “now” again (this time coming in from the DAT deck directly via the mini-jack), but I’m still getting the same result.
Please let me know if you have any ideas because I can forsee recording scratch track audio this way (unless I use the built-in MacBook microphone for that instead of a mic via the mini-jack) and I’d love to know if this was even possible.
Thanks,
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2 Replies
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sounds like you are using the Log and Capture interface…
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Hi Colin!
Thanks very much for your help! This is definitely a case where the manual didn’t help – I never would have thought to go anywhere other than Log and Capture. Tools/Voice Over would never have came to mind.
I defintely like the STP version, although I would have a lot of experimenting to do in order to edit in that program. I followed your instructions and did tests in both programs – thanks!
One question that comes to mind is that, in yesterday’s case, I was recording a left and right channel. The left carried the moderator from a wireless mic and the right carried a mix of three PZM mics spread throughout the room to handle the 120-member audience questions. It looks like Tools/Voice Over in FCP would only have captured one of the channels. Is there a way to get that to record both of the channels (I tried both the built-in mic, which would work great for voice overs, and the built-in input for the stereo mini-jack but it only recorded to Channel 2). I didn’t really get that far in STP.
Thanks again!
-PatG5 Quad 2.5 Desktop with 4GB Ram, 500GB HD & Fiber Card ~
30″ Cinema Display & 17″ Sony SVGA ~
Swift Data 200 Internal 1.6TB SATA II RAID 0 ~
AJA Io LA ~
Final Cut Studio ~
Sony UVW-1800 Beta-SP ~~~P D Post Productions, Inc. ~
TV~DVD~VHS~CD~WEB
for Corporate Communications, Commercials, Infomercials, Television Programs, Family Occasions since 1983 ~
E-mail PD@PDPost.com ~
Website http://www.PDPost.com ~
Business/Cell Phone (847) 275-5671
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