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Need dummies guide to outputting 4 audio tracks
Can someone step me through how to set up FCP to output to digibeta via SDI (AJA LD) 4 tracks of audio.
Track 1 – interview
Track2 – atmos
Tracks 3 & 4 – music.When I go to edit to tape only 2 tracks are enabled (others are greyed out)
I have set audio out in preferences to 4 tracks but only 2 tracks show even in the audio mixer.
I am obviously missing something in setup but what?
Using Sony DVW-A500/P.
I hire in the deck so can not test until I get the deck in so a detailed explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Miriana -
3 Replies
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Hi,
once you have enabled 4track output, control click on tracks3 and 4, and you will see an option to route them to 3&4.best wishes
nick -
Nick is correct. I’ll just maybe expand on that since that is precisely what I labored through yesterday. I had 4 audio mixdowns for a 4 language Master and was having precisely your problem outputting via the SDI output straight to my deck.
First, in your sequence settings make sure you have the output set at 4 channels and select dual mono for all 4.
Then as the previous post states, open up the audio mixer under the tools menu. If you control click in the fisrt column next to each single track, you have the possibility of patching that to a particular output. Make sure you patch straight through 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 and 4-4. MAke sure that the down mix button is disabled.
Explained (in a kind of vieiled way) in Vol III pages 61 and 69.
Hope this helps.
kimDual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.02, OS X10.4.2
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Thank you both for your reply. I will try it out.
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