recording Voice Over

[Dan Monro]

Dumb question, but you are sending line 4 to the aux sends, right?

And your input device is set to the black magic in both the mac OS and in the FCP voiceover tool, right?

Dan Monro
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Final Cut Pro 7 Quicktime 7.6.4

[Roi Turnoy]

Yep..
both of them are set to black magic inputs.
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[Dan Monro]

Can you get the audio in to any other mac app? Like QT or Soundtrack Pro? In other words do you see it at the OS level? If so, you can point to FCP. If not, it may be an incorrect path on the mixer.

Dan Monro
FCP, Avid, AfterFX, Atlanta
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Mac OS X 10.5.8
GeForce 8600M GT Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 Quicktime 7.6.4
– OR –
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Mac OS X 10.5.8
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Final Cut Pro 7 Quicktime 7.6.4

[Roi Turnoy]

No Sound into the machine.

I can hear the mic in the sound monitors, but no sound getting into the computer.

2 options:

1. the output from the mixer is wrong – I don’t know what is wrong though…
2. something in the input prefs of the black magic is wrong…

what can I do?

[Dan Monro]

Can’t help you with the Black Magic prefs; don’t know Black Magic cards. If you think you’ve got them set correctly and they still don’t work, try trashing the Black Magic prefs.

On the output of the mixer; make sure you’re sending the signal from your mic (ch4, right) to the aux sends. Make sure your levels on the aux sends are up. Make sure your phantom power is on. Make sure your gain for the mic is up. Can you see the mic on your meters? Start at the mic and double check the entire path – from the on switch on the mic to the output of the board. Try switching your black magic cables to the main outs of the board, see if that fixes it. If so, you’re not using your aux sends correctly.

Track it down, buddy. Good luck.
D

Dan Monro
FCP, Avid, AfterFX, Atlanta
MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB ram
Mac OS X 10.5.8
GeForce 8600M GT Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 Quicktime 7.6.4
– OR –
2 x 3.2 Quad Xeon; 16 GB ram
Mac OS X 10.5.8
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Final Cut Pro 7 Quicktime 7.6.4

[Michael Gissing]

Make sure you are connecting to analog inputs on the Decklink. They also have XLR connectors for the digital inputs.

[Victor Merino]

Turn external video off from the view menu in FCP, once you’re done with your VO set back to all frames

[Antony Mathew]

Dear All,
We are using FCP7 with Master control & AJA for our edit suites. My AJA analogue audio out put is connected to Master control input 7&8, and we have VO booth which is connected to Input 1 on MC, and a headset mike to input2 of master control. We are connected the Audio monitors from Master Control out put, and there is a talk back to VO booth also. I am using AJA input in my VO tool.
Now my problem when i record VO with out any audio playing from time line its fine , but if i have audio or music in the time line and record a VO giving me a mix of both VO+time line audio. What i want is the VO artist should listen to time line audio and i want to record his voice separately.
Can any one help me on this……

antonykm@gmail.com

[Dan Monro]

Hi Antony,

Is “Master Control” a mixing board? I’m not familiar with it. But it sounds like your problem is with the setup of the mixer.

You want to feed the headphone output of the mixer into the VO booth for the talent to hear, and the main or aux outs of the board into your AJA for FCP.

Feed Ch1 (vo mic) to the main or aux outs, AND to the headphones, and feed 7&8 (AJA analog) to headphone only. That should send talent only into FCP.

Make sense? Good luck,
D

Dan Monro
FCP, Avid, AfterFX, Atlanta
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Mac OS X 10.6.4
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