Brecht Wouters
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Hi David,
Well no, when the audio is analog, nothing comes in. But the settings are correct, like you mentioned. Audio inputs are through the AJA, and the AJA is set to analog audio in. When the audio is SDI embedded, there are no problems whatsoever. According to our local Dealer, the problems with sending and receiving audio at the same time through AJA are common. Read: it cannot be done.
We made a bypass from the patching panel straight to the jack audio in of the Mac Pro. This works, and also solves both problems. Does this affect the quality?
Because AJA SHOULD give me the analog audio when I’m not using the VO tool (and won’t), I do want to reinstall the drivers. Have you got an idea how I should go about that? Recently installing the 6.0.3 driver didn’t help. I’m not an experienced mac user yet, so I’m afraid to do anything wrong.
Greetings and thanks for your response.
Brecht
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Hi Adam,
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, we have invested in a nice voice over studio and we’d like to still be able to use it. I’ve ringed our local dealer and he says that Aja and FCP indeed have conflicts in sending and receiving a voice at the same time, hence the loop. He suggested to directly hook the patching panel to the computer to make a bypass.
But as I don’t seem to receive any analog audio at all, he suggested to reinstall the driver. How do I go about that? As I am no Apple adept and have little experience so far, I’m afraid of making things worse.
Regards,
Brecht
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Hi Simon,
I’ve called with the local dealer here in Brussels. Unfortunately, what you’re saying seems correct. He stated that AJA was not able to simultaneously receive and send out the audio signal, I figure that’s where the feedback comes from. He suggested to put a small mixette in between the patching panel and the computer so the voice coming in will go straight to the computer.
Unfortunately, this does not solve the issue with not being able to receive analog audio. I’ve updated the AJA drivers yesterday to 6.0.3 but it didn’t work. The dealer told me to reinstall the drivers, but I don’t have that much experience with mac or its applications to confirm that I’m doing things correctly. I have this thought that installing the 6.0.3 driver should be sufficient to state that I ‘reinstalled’ it? Or am I wrong here.
My question is: How do I go about reinstalling the drivers. I’m weary of doing things wrong and making it worse.
Regards,
Brecht
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Are you sure you shot in SD on your Z1? HD is always in 16:9, so when you check the anamorphic box, it will squeeze it more than you’d want it to be.
When you render your sequence to a quicktime, it’s perfectly normal that it isn’t in widescreen in quicktime player. Just make sure that, when you want to make a dvd or a video for web, your settings are set to 16:9 when you compress it.
Greetz and lots of luck,
Brecht
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Hi Bob,
I’ve got another update. The connections through AJA seem to work, except that when FCP is opened, it stops coming through. So there must be a setting I’ve missed on FCP?
In the AV settings, the Device Control is set to AJA IoHD: 25 Sony VTR. The videoplayback is set to AJA IoHD 625i25 8bits and the Audio playback is set to AJA IoHD.
In the capture presets, I get the following summary concerning audio: Using AJA IoHD for audio input. Input: default. Format: 48.000 KHz 24-bit 8 channels. Speaker: OFF (Don’t know for sure wether it is relevant. Volume: 100, Gain: 101.
In the AV devices tab all is quite similar: AJA IoHD for audio. The video is mirrored on desktop.I hope this helps?
Regards and many thanks in advance.
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Hi Jeremy,
I took your advice and Bob’s and that seems to work. Opening FCP makes it stop. I’ve posted my AV settings in a reply to bob so you can have a look if you wish. I really can’t figure it out.
Greetings and many thanks!
Brecht
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Hi Bob,
Thanks for your post. I surely can hear audio, but my guess is it’s only through embedded SDI. I have already physically hooked up a VTR directly into the AJA IoHD and that didn’t seem to work. Even though every other program was closed and the input was set to analog.
However, the input passthrough option you mentioned does make the audio come in and it’s visible on the levels.
What do you suggest the problem could be then? Is it a problem in the FCP/Aja interface? And where does the feedback come from?
Greets and thank you!
Brecht
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I have the same issue. I am able to change quality, but not the dimensions. Which program should be used then? I figure it could be done in Mpeg Streamclip (What’s in a name?’ but I can’t figure out how.
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Har 😀
I used a directional blur of value 1, but he felt it knocked off too much detail, so he wanted me to find another way to make it work. He figures that it works on television shows, so we should be able to do the same, since we do broadcasting as well. My guess is that TV shows work in standards for that matter. But I need some backup research to be absolutely sure as to what I’m saying. I only just graduaded and I still have a lot to learn 😉
But thanks for the support.
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Yes I figured that using fractional numbers was the killer. So my guess now is that it’s not really possible to ensure a clean move if it’s under 25 pixels per second, am I saying this correctly? The bold font does the same, so…
So my actual question is: Is it correct to tell my employer: “Quit hassling me about it, it cannot be done”? But in a milder, employer-friendly fashion of course 😉