sdi M&E print to tape using fcp HELP

[Matthew Nelson]

First you need to go into FCP user preferences/Audio Outputs duplicate the Stereo Monitoring setting and change it to a multi channel setting. ie 4 channels for Digibeta. Then create a sequence that just has the number of audio tracks that match your multi channel setting. Then lay in the audio according to tracks you want them to be on tape.

I only use ETT but this should work for crash records as well.

[Emmet Reddy]

Thanks Matthew
that worked for me, but what i did was nest my full mix into two tracks and then nest my m&e into 2 more and i copied them into the multi channel setting sequence and they played to tape seperately in one go?
Anyway now i have to this with the next program

1st channel:

[Matthew Nelson]

With the audio layout you described I would set the audio output Ch 1 & 2 dual mono 0dB. My question is this international left and right a stereo mix that you want interleaved on tape? If so set Ch 3&4 stereo 0dB. If these are to remain non interleaved left and right set Ch 3&4 to dual mono 0dB.

I set all my audio to 0dB. The mixes I get are all normalized to either -20 or -12. I generally don’t want anything adding to or taking away from their levels.

[Emmet Reddy]

Thanks for the quick response most of that is pretty clear to me, but what does interleaved non interleaved on tape mean?

Emmet

[Matthew Nelson]

Interleave is when a stereo mix is saved as single digital file. The L and R samples are written together or interleaved. Reading you post again it sounds like the L and R are separate files. In that case I would use the dual mono 0 dB. I hope this has helped you.

Matt

[Emmet Reddy]

Thanks Matthew very helpful info.

All the best Emmet