Brad Hurley
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Sorry, wrong screen shot attached by mistake. here’s the right one.
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That’s strange! See screen shot below for waveforms of some test voiceover I recorded just now in FCPX using the Record Voiceover window and my USBPre 2. Recording is loud and clear.
Have you tried recording into any other program on your computer? It would be worth testing.
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The input gain slider is probably only available when you use the built-in mic; since the interface is sending a line-level signal there’s no need to adjust it.
I have a MixPre 6 as well but have never used it as a USB interface; my interface is also from Sound Devices but it’s the USBPre 2.
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You’re right about the input gain option being grayed out; I see the same thing when I tried just now to record through my interface. However I got a very good line level in and the levels on my recording are fine.
The best test would be to record something else from that same interface into another application (e.g., Audacity) on your computer to see if it’s an issue with the signal out from your interface. The fact that I’m getting good levels suggests that this isn’t a FCPX issue.
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Are you using the “Record Voiceover” tool? It has a slider for adjusting the input level if it’s coming in too low from the interface.
Also, just a check: are you sure it’s recording the input from your audio interface? By default, it will record the Mac’s built-in mic; you have to select the interface as the input.
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It’s easy enough to just import everything into the media pool and make your selects (e.g., subclips) from there. The clone tool (available in the Media page) is a more reliable way than drag-and-drop to transfer footage from SD cards/SSD/CFast to your RAID or hard disk or whatever you use for storage, as it does a checksum to make sure all the transferred files exactly match the source.
Before Resolve became a capable editor, a lot of people used your workflow with the original Pocket Cinema Camera, which shot CDNG raw; they would process those in Resolve and export Prores files to edit in FCPX.
Resolve is actually an excellent editor now, but if you’re used to Final Cut it’s going to seem inefficient in comparison, at least until you get used to it.
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And to clarify once more: the filmstrip viewer is actually available in the Media tab, but only for clips that you’ve already imported into Resolve, not for clips that are, say, on your SD card and haven’t yet been imported. Sorry for the multiple posts…it doesn’t look like there’s a way to edit posts otherwise I would have edited my original with these corrections and clarifications.
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Oops, I didn’t read your message closely enough: the filmstrip viewer isn’t available in the Media Pool, but it’s true that the Media Pool is where you go to preview footage that you haven’t yet imported into Resolve. You can navigate to any folder where your footage is stored (e.g., an SD card) and click once on any file to preview it in the viewer. You can set in/out points and create subclips (option-B) right there — the subclips will be added to your media pool, at least they were when I tested it just now.
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Resolve has a FCPX-like filmstrip viewer, available in either the Media tab or the Edit tab, you just have to enable it. In the Media Pool on the edit page, click on the three dots (ellipsis) to the right of the search icon (magnifying glass) and you’ll see an option to view the filmstrip. You can skim through it just as you can with FCPX.
You can set in and out points on any clip and create a subclip (type option-b) to export portions of a clip. That’s the closest you’ll get to FCPX’s “favorites” feature.
The only drag with subclips is that they don’t include handles — the in/out markers are the in/out of the subclip. If you want handles, you have to either get into the habit of setting your in/outs a bit wider than what you actually need, or you can adjust them afterward in the clip attributes (but that’s a bit tedious).
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Whoops, actually the instructions for the Mapbox API token are in the Installation tutorial, which is on a different tab on that page.
