Hearing Audio durring logging and capturing

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The audio is, by default, MUTED to the Mac’s speaker output during Log and Capture.

You should normally monitor the audio directly from the camcorder or deck you are using to capture.

NOTE:
Many people have reported that noise or “pops” appear in the captured clips if the Mac’s internal audio is left on WHILE capturing… so may want to choose “Off During Capture.”

However, there is a way you can turn ON the Mac’s speaker if you really WANT to:

Final Cut Pro (menu) > Audio/Video Settings… > Capture Presets (tab)

“Duplicate” the Capture Preset you are now using, when the window opens rename it (I added “MacAudioOn” to the file name).

Click open the “Advanced” button in the Audio section and turn speakers to “ON during Capture.”
The Mac speakers/audio-out will now play Audio during the preview in the Log and Capture window.

[David Sandbank]

thanks.
david

[Dave Kulawick]

Why do you say “You should normally monitor the audio directly from the camcorder or deck you are using to capture.”

It has always been my practice to monitor the recording device, whatever it is.

“NOTE:
Many people have reported that noise or “pops” appear in the captured clips if the Mac’s internal audio is left on WHILE capturing.”

That sounds like a bug to me, but almost explains why one has create a new capture preset to enable audio monitoring during capture.

[Tom Wolsky]

The computer’s internal audio is 44.1, the audio CD standard. That’s the problem. The processor has to resample the audio on the fly to play back the sound through the speakers, while it’s capturing at what’s most likely a different sampling rate. This is a bad idea. In older systems it was buried in capture presets because slower processors would actually cause sync drift during capture. That’s what Ralph Fairweather found when he was QA for the original Final Cut Pro. Modern systems with faster processor speeds probably don’t have this problem, but I could well see it causing odd sound problems though. I don’t see the point of risking it myself.

[Kirk Weston]

And the third option is to select ‘OFF while recording’ in the Advaced tab. This allows you to still hear the audio through computer speakers while logging clips.