Ultrastudio 4K + 2014 Mac Pro = Not so good.

[Bruce Colgate]

Agreed. They are unusually quiet, but perhaps that’s because they are putting all their effort into getting this fix done.

While we still like FCP7, we’ve moved on to FCPX after shunning it for the first 2 years. If you’re still working in FCP7, it might be worth your while to start trying X, or MC7, or Premiere. I’m surprised 7 still works, frankly.

All the Best,

– Bruce Colgate

[Mika Hudyma]

Thinking of switching to Avid. I find the lack of a real timeline maddening in X–and not having built in support for OMF is a real downer for the kind of work we do. Premiere frustrated me even more. Although, I do want to load x on new mac to see just how fast it is.

Are you using offset in FCP7? Just switched to 9.9.3 and with system output it works fine, but can’t figure out what the offset is (or if I’ll be able to sync at all).

M

Mika

[Greg Partridge]

I posted this in another discussion about the same problem:

Here is my workaround for the audio sync problem using Final Cut Pro 7, Soundflower and Garageband.

– Download and install Soundflower
– In System Preferences select sound. Set output to headphones and input to Soundflower (2 Ch)
– In Final Cut 7 go to Audio/Video Settings and select:
Video Playback: Blackmagic HD 1080i 59.94 – 8 Bit (1920 x 1080)
Audio Playback: Soundflower (2Ch)
– Open Garageband and create a new track and engage the input monitoring button.
– In Garageband preferences go to the Audio/Midi tab and select:
Output Device: Built-In Output
Input Device: Soundflower (2Ch)
– On your Garageband audio track insert the AUDelay plug in and set the delay time for .15 seconds and 0% feedback. Also set the Dry/Wet Mix to 100%. The .15 sec delay compensates for the 4 frames the video lags behind the audio in Final Cut Using the Blackmagic video output.

Your Final Cut audio should now be routed through Garageband and be in sync with the video. You only have to set this up once. Just save the
Garageband session and run in the background while using Final Cut 7.

**Make sure your version of Blackmagic Design Desktop Video is 9.9.3 or lower. Version 10 completely crashes Final Cut 7.

Greg Partridge
tubecreative.com