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Turn off audio channels 3-16 by default
I was wondering if there is a way in FC7 to turn off the audio channels I don’t need druing capture and make this the default capture setup. I capture a lot of commercials in a hurry and forget to turn off channels 3-16. Thus, I have a QT file with 16 channels of audio for no reason. Anyone know if I can turn them off in the settings somewhere and keep them off whenever I use Final Cut?
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it’s in the capture window in one of the tabs, but if you do, it will
turn them all back on again later. it’s an annoying bug introduced
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[Chris Borjis] “it’s in the capture window in one of the tabs, but if you do, it will
turn them all back on again later. it’s an annoying bug introduced
in version 6 to current version.”it’s actually been there ever since 16 channels were made available by hardware from people like AJA.
The settings will stick until you go to a source other than the hardware. Such as switching from an AJA setting to Firewire and then back again. FCP will always default to the maximum amount of audio channels available.
So as long as you stay in the “hardware” settings the audio will not change. Once you either throw the Prefs away or switch to something else and back to the hardware, then it will activate all 16 channels again.
Yes it is annoying, but it’s been around for quite some time. Apple would have to address this issue unfortunately. I really don’t see that happening anytime soon quite honestly.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
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Some of us have to digitize very quickly as well (oh wait, this is the video industry, everything we all work on was due yesterday). If you have time to type a name to log your clip, I would say you have time to click the mouse 14 times really fast to uncheck those channels.
I’ve actually come to like this FCP bug because it keeps me honest and aware of what I’m digitizing, diligently remembering if I’m capturing stereo, 2 channel mono, 4 channel splits, 5.1, etc.
We all know there’s nothing like sweating over the video to later realize we missed the M&E on 3&4 or captured 2 hours of silence over 14 channels of audio 🙂Chad Brewer
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I’m glad to know that I’m not the ONLY one annoyed by this.
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[walter biscardi] “The settings will stick until you go to a source other than the hardware.”
It didn’t seem to be an issue until I got FCP 6.x
I could swear it always stayed on 2-channels only until I changed it but I could be wrong. interesting.
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