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no SDI audio from digiBeta?
Hi all, in a bit of a tight spot here. i seem to remember this usually working without problems,, but for some reason i’m suddenly not able to get the SDI audio in from a digibeta through my Blackmagic 8bit-uncompressed card (which is located in my g5 running FCP 5). i have checked all the audio/video and capture settings a hundred times. and I’ve got SDI audio selected everywhere. the video is at the moment digitizing fine, but the audio just won’t speak up. i know this is a completely general question, but i’m just checking if someone might have any idea of what it is they might have forgotten to check at some point when they had the same problem and hopefully solved it. thanks in advance /david
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Speakers connected to monitor audio outputs or connected to the Mac?
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ha ha, cheers 🙂 i wish it was that, but yes i got speakers connected — i can’t see any audio input on any of the audio meters in the log/capture panel, so that would exclude that too. thanks for your reply! /d
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Try a restart… I know…simple…but try that.
Second..make sure you AUDIO MAPPING is set to the appropriate channels (1&2) instead of 3 and 4 for instance (do that in FCP of course)
Unplug the connections to the deck and switch the deck off …..then on. Retry…
Tell it you’re giving it AES (maybe it thinks your giving it AES audio right now in fact) but after checking that…switch it to be AES instead of SDI. Then switch back to SDI
It’s weird..had an incident with a D5 where everything was right but we had to switch to AES then back to SDI to sort of PRIME THE PUMP to get it recognized.
I’m trying…hope something here works out…
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Check the DeckLink control panel so that “Black Video Output to Deck in Capture” (or something like this as I am not in front of my edit machine so just trusting my feeble memory) is disabled. Weird quirk for this board drove me crazy ’til I figured it out.
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thanks for all your replies. followed all your advice, but unfortunately nothing has solved it yet. one thing i’ve stumbled into is that there are new drivers at decklink for FCP 5, but only for osx10.4. i don’t run the news osx so i don’t want to use the new driver in case it messes up other functions with my decklink that are working at the moment. don’t have time to upgrade in the middle of this mess, but this might be what’s wrong. we’ve also been thinking that it might just be this particular tape, but it’s seems not i hear from the other side of the room as i type this 🙁
somethings not right somewhere. any other suggestions most welcome, again thanks for your response so far.
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Did you try to patch the AES audio from the digi beta into the Decklink and change it to AES input?
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If you want to lay the imbedded audio to tape, you need to make sure you let the deck know to use the SIF audio. On our A500 decks there are audio input selections. All you would need to do is punch the SIF buttons for each channel you want to lay in and you are good.
-matt
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