Question about monitoring audio via external speakers

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Question about monitoring audio via external speakers

Posted by Carlos Castro on June 23, 2011 at 11:05 pm

1st of all hello everyone, I’m new to PP, moving over from FCP 7. Let me tell you a little bit about my setup so that hopefully you guys can help me figure my problem out.

1. I’m running CS5, soon Cs5.5 on my Mac Pro desk top. 2×2.66ghz dual core intel xeon
2. I have a dual monitor set up, 2Dell 22’s with a client monitor or air monitor 32inch sony bravia {HDMI}
3.Matrox MXO2 I/O box fully updated.
4. logictech 500w 5.1 speaker set that I have connected to the desktop via optical wire output.
5.Caldigit raid drive 3TB
6. I’ve been on the line with Matrox and their tech support and that was a dead end.

That is pretty much all the main pieces. When I run FCP 7 I can hear my timeline or sequence via the ext 5.1 speakers, I can see the timelines output in the 32 inch client monitor and all is good. Same with After FX and ram previews, they work as they should.

On Premiere Pro I can see the sequence but I can’t hear the sound. It comes through the 32inch monitor’s built in speaker. I have been through just about every setting in the PP Preferences hardware tab and no change, it only plays through the client monitor. As soon as I log out of PP and go into FCP 7 I’m good, everything works as it should.

Any Ideas?

Are any of you running a similar setup?

How do you monitor your audio?

Are you guys using ext. speakers and if so, how have you connected them to your tower ?
{MAC PRO}

Thanks

Christopher Blake replied 15 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
3 Replies

Vince Becquiot
June 24, 2011 at 12:59 am

Hi Carlos,

We take optical out to a small mixer. You may have to go into Premiere audio preferences and set your output there. It looks like right now it’s set to the HDMI OUT.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
Carlos Castro
June 24, 2011 at 12:23 pm

Ok thanks Vince. I think it’s a settings problem somewhere because I can hear FCP 7 and After FX,
so I don’t believe the connection is the problem but I can’t figure it out. I’m using HDMI out of the matrox but only for Video monitoring, and optical wire directly out of the Desktop into the logictech speaker system.

Thanks
Christopher Blake
July 11, 2011 at 8:27 pm

I’m having similar problems.

Using Final Cut Pro I switch from external speakers to internal speakers easily.

Premiere has been buggy on some minor issues so I’ve tried re-installing, getting new drivers from Blackmagic (I only use this for external output), etc. But most annoyingly is when switching audio. I go to Preferences>Audio Hardware> Default Device> .. and changing the Blackmagic Audio to System Default (ergo the headphones) the Software crashes. Repeatedly.

Anyone else having this issue? All I want to do is to switch from headphones to external speakers — but Blackmagic only allows external speakers. Perhaps there is another way.

set-up:

Mac 2x3Ghs Dual Core Xeon, 12 GB RAM Mac OS X 10.6.8
Blackmagic Design Declink HD extreme

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