Still Nothing with VOICE OVER TOOL

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Still Nothing with VOICE OVER TOOL

Posted by Anthony Vamvakitis on February 18, 2006 at 9:53 pm

This is pathetic… Okay went through the steps – No external video, have the system prefs set to y, b-y, r-y video & analog XLR audio (I’m working with a beta deck). Black burst going into Multibridge extreme, and still….

No levels.

Anyone else suffering through this pain?

I don’t know if it’s a Blackmagic problem or an Apple problem, but it is a problem! I never had a problem with the Kona SD and Final Cut 4.5 doing VO, so this is definitely new.

Can someone from Blackmagic please let us know if you are working on fixing this, and if so, when it will be fixed?

Anthony Vamvakitis
https://homepage.mac.com/divisionent

Anthony Vamvakitis replied 20 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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Accountneedsrealnameupdate
February 18, 2006 at 10:01 pm

Yep, seems to be a problem.
I find that the card grabs the audio regardles of settings.
It is interesting trying to work with Soundtrack pro.
Reduced to having to use mini jacks on the mac, very professional.

I used to have a full head of hair!
Andrew Mcleod
February 19, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Hi

Please can you send your system specification and driver versions you are using to
pcsupport@blackmagic-design.com

Monitoring should be occuring vi the DVI connection regarless of the system settings.

Macintosh
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/software/Multibridge_Macintosh_5.4.1.zip
Windows
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/software/Multibridge_Windows_5.4.1.zip

Andrew McLeod
Blackmagic Design
Trevor Kinsey
February 19, 2006 at 11:18 pm

I have had some intermittent problems when using the VO tool this way. As described in an earlier post, on one machine we use the MAC’s audio in for VO, this doesn’t work on another slightly newer but similarly spec’d machine.

When using the “turn off external video” option, sometimes the external video still shows something. It might be desktop or some window from the application. If the monitor shows anything other than black, the VO tool won’t work. It sometimes takes some fiddling to get the monitor to show black rather than for example desktop. Once the monitor is black the the VO tool works for me.

Trevor Kinsey,
Technical Producer,
CVP Film and Television,
Melbourne,
Australia
Anthony Vamvakitis
February 20, 2006 at 11:53 pm

Specs are:

G5 Quad 4.5 gig ram
MAC OS 10.4.4
Blackmagic 5.4 drivers
System Prefs: Input – Y, B-y, R-Y Video & Analog XLR
Video desktop: Disabled

Anthony Vamvakitis
https://homepage.mac.com/divisionent

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