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[Walter Biscardi] “You need to adjust your Playback Offset to ensure your external monitor and audio are in sync.”

Hi Walter.

I don’t see how this applies to this problem.
The audio and video when monitored either BOTH externally or BOTH on the Mac are not affected by this delay setting.

It only comes into play if you monitor audio from one place and video from the other, right?

(BTW, my delay setting for use with a small FW deck is 5 frames.)

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THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

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[iMan] ” when I select View/External Video/All Frames I get external monitor, but it is out of sync on both computer screen and external monitor by half a second or so.”

The Canvas Window on the computer is SUPPOSED to be out of sync with the EXTERNAL audio
(there is a delay in the conversion of the FW digital into analog A/V).

But with your set-up, the external VIDEO must also be out of sync with the Canvas Window.

Here is how it should be:
A. External Frames OFF: Canvas and Mac audio should be in sync with each other.
B. External Frames ON: EXTERNAL video and audio should be in sync with each other (Canvas should be out of sync with both).

Double-check under those conditions and please re-post.

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[chris] “Well, how do people advance the hour.”

Any form of setting any part of the TC is not possible unless the camcorder has that feature built in.
As I said, MOST DV camcorders do NOT.

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[Kevin Monahan] “It’s possible to shoot in 32 kHz, and that might explain your audio problem.”

Not so much.

32 kHz sampling does not sound “tinny”.

It basically sounds identical to 48 kHz except the high-end (theoretically) cuts off at 16 kHz instead of 24 kHz.

If anyone can find, hear and record any significant audio at a peace-march that’s above 16 kHz, there is a nice river-spanning structure I can sell them in NYC.

There is obviously something VERY wrong with the first tape.
(I’m betting on a MISS-THREAD during the recording in the camcorder.)

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Here’s a list made by FCP Cowhand David Slater that I have saved.
It could have been found with a Search.
Its a good idea to try the Search Posts first when you have a question.
You can usually find an answer in under a minute.

There are FCP listings on toolfarm.com and pluginz.com.

https://www.nattress.com
https://www.kafwang.com/EUREKA/EurekaMain.html
https://www.chv-plugins.com/index.html
https://www.riverrockstudios.com/riverrock/pages/FCP.html
https://www.redgiantsoftware.com/
https://www.borisfx.com/
https://www.buena.com/
https://www.revisionfx.com/
https://www.virtix.com/fcp/
https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/
https://www.pluginz.com/default.php?from=rlist&genre=6&category=62&type=2
https://www.synthetic-ap.com
https://www.fxscript.org
https://homepage.mac.com/tomhenderson/beziermatte/
https://www.mattias.nu/
https://www.digitalfilmtools.com/55mm-4/55mm.htm
https://www.cgm-online.com/eiperle/cgm_e.html
https://www.joesfilters.com
https://www.dvgarage.com/
https://www.trapcode.com/
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/
https://www.genarts.com/download-sapphire-ae-mac.html
https://66.193.230.226/~stib/
https://www.petewarden.com/index.htm
and the editor toolkits from https://www.digitaljuice.com have transitions and alpha wipes

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THE FOLLOWING COMES FROM THE KEN STONE WEBSITE:
“Over 5,000 years ago Confucius wrote: ‘If you are toiling away, you have changed nothing and FCP heads South on you, [starts behaving in strange ways] then it is time to trash your FCP Preferences.’ ”

Click the following link for instructions.

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html

A great way to do this is to use “FCP Rescue” a free Apple Script that will Trash the Preferences for you (and restore nearly all of your user settings afterward).
There are versions for FCPro & FCExpress.

Download these free Apple Scripts at

https://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

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At the Lower Left of the Timeline Window you will see a speaker icon (Audio Controls).

Three icons to the RIGHT of the speaker is a “4 small columns icon” (Toggle Timeline Track Height).

Right-Click (or Control-Click) on this icon and HOLD to reveal a set of options.

Choose “Show Audio Waveforms”.

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https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

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[PaulD] “but it makes it more clear why SP is not a mode to ever ever use…”

Let’s make that “LP”, not “SP” 😉