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Problems monitoring audio with VO Tool
Hi,
I’m trying to set up to do some basic voice over recording using the final cut pro VO tool. Everything seems to be working except I can’t monitor the audio as it’s recorded.
Just to say a little about the set up – I have the microphone going into a preamp, then going line in into the computer. My levels are great. When I record and then play back, sounds great through my monitors.I normally have my audio play back set to built in line output and have a pair of edirol speakers that i use to monitor. When I plug my headphones into these speakers I hear nothing from the mic. I tried switching to built in audio and plugged my headphones directly into the computer – still nothing (btw, i changed setting in system prefs too).
Also might be useful to know – I can hear audio tracks in sequences through the speakers and the headphones, just not the audio coming in through the Mic. Is there some setting in the VO tool i’m missing?
Thanks,
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Nope that’s the way it is. You will needan external mixer if you want to feed a FCP/Mic mix back to the VO artist.
Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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Depending on your mixer’s design it’s possible to send a monitor feed from the board to the voice talent.
However, there might be a small problem with how it syncs up with what’s coming out of the edit system.
Some analog I/O cards put in a slight delay in the audio signal so that it matches up with the processed video signal which sometimes has a slight delay.
Dean Sensui — Imagination Media Hawaii
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Really? So you can’t monitor as you record if you don’t have a mixer? That’s so weird because in the manual it has this cute simple little diagram of a mic going into an audio interface going into a laptop and headphones going out. And it literally says: “Step 6: Plug in your headphones Connect your headphones to the headphone port of your computer, and you
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Really! The headphones are for monitoring the FCP sequence audio not the mic.
Martin
Digital Heaven, London UK
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There is a workaround for this issue. You can monitor the audio in QT Player, while at the same time use the Voice Over Tool in FCP. Open QT Player. Go to the Preferences under QT Player, and click on Recording. Switch the Microphone to the same source as you Voice Over Tool. Open a new audio record and turn the sound up till you hear it on the bottom left of the window. Then go back to FCP and use the voice over tool as usual. You should be able to record as normal but now you are monitoring the sound through QT Player. For Nar or voice over tracks, I like to create a new seq, put some slug an hour into the seq, set my in and out points from 0 to an hour, and use the M key to add markers to the timeline while the track is coming in for a better workflow.
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