No audio meters during capture

[Peter Mcauley]

Yes I created a duplicate of my capture preset and set the speakers to on. (Why you would ever want your speakers off in the first place is still beyond me) I can hear everything and the meters work, but soon as I actually hit capture the meters disable.

Peter McAuley
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[Jerry Hofmann]

That’s right… the meters only work during the viewing… heck once you set your levels (when capturing DV you can’t change them anyway), I reallly don’t see the need for them. The reason that this feature was sort of buried before in the earlier versions of the softaware is because it adds computer overhead to do it. When capturing on a slower mac, this caused dropped frames, so that’s why the options was also there to turn off the pass through of the audio during capture.

Jerry

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[John Fishback]

My work-around for this is to send tone from my audio console to FCP while in the capture/logging mode. Adjust so the reading of console’s meters and FCP’s meters are the same. Then, when you actually capture and FCP’s meters turn off, you just use the meters on your console to ride your levels.

John

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[Peter Mcauley]

I guess where I miss it the most is when I’m recording scratch voice overs. People always tend to move closer to the mic. Countless times I’ve recorded ten minutes of voice over only to discover that it’s distorted and I have to do it again. Not cool with a room full of clients. As far as over taxing the cpu, well I just don’t buy it. I remember recordng voice over on my avid in 1992 on my quadra 950 being able to have active audio meters.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
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Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display

[David Battistella]

I have to say I am with Pete on this one. It is, after all called Final Cut “Pro”. I think that any “pro” expects this “pro” type feature in a “pro” app.

Here is a workflow thing.

You quickly log a tape and while you are capturing you notice that the clip is coming in a bit “hot” . You can stop your batch capture and then adjust your levels and begina recapture right there. It is also an extra back up. I have had situaltions where an assistant captured clips with the V only set in the settings tab. Granted this was a small honest mistake, but there was no way of knowing that the tracks were turned off.

IN FCP 5.0 the Log and Capture tool has had a very minimal overhaul (as has edit to tape) the large button, moving meter AVID style interface wins here, especially from a software design perspective.

I would have placed this above multicam. At least there were third party solutions for multicam already out there. Multi cam was always an extra purchase with AVID, it was never one of their core features. You would rarely see an upgraded “multicam avid” back in the day.

Show me the sound 🙂
It’s not too much to ask from the best editing software on teh planet.

David

[Dave Jenkins]

I agree it’s a great way to double check that you have audio coming in if the meters move during capture. We should all use the feedback area on Apples site. I spoke to one of the FCP team at NAB and he said they do add the things that are requested most.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html

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[Darren Mostyn]

OK, so I get the idea that this feature doesn’t work. This is an important tool, despite the inacuracy of these style meters, they still give an idea of what is going in to the system. I am very surprised that this has been overlooked, or needs to be requested as a voted style feature, being very new to FCP (V5.0 only.) I will vote for it on the apple site anyway and lets hope! (any chance of the video overlay being smoother during capture too ? … and yes, I do have an output monitor!!!!)
; )))

Regards
Darren.

[Peter Mcauley]

While we’re at it let’s shoot for timecode display to be enabled during capture as well.

Peter McAuley
Axyz Edit
Toronto
G5 dual 2.0
4 gigs ram
10.3.8
FCP 4.5 HD
QT 6.5.2
Kona 2 v1.1 with K Box
4 X 250 gig external F800 Lacie firewire drive
2 X 23″ Apple cinema display