[Darren Mostyn]

It doesn’t work on mine. I am coming in analogue via AJA IO. I get the usual picture, as soon as I hit capture the audio meters freeze (with preview selected). I am on FCP V5.0 with Tiger.
Darren Mostyn.

[Darren Mostyn]

I get the same results in Pal. Fastest seems to give the bset results.
Darren.

[Darren Mostyn]

Hi dave,
Sorry for delay in getting back to you. I have now updated the firmware on my AJA IO with the new version 2.0 (not Beta). The analogue audio can now be set to +18db ref or +24db. This has not resolved the issue. My level reading in FCP via AJA IO is also 6 dB higher with +18dB switched on. The IO software almost needs a variable slider so that I can tune the box to the input level.
Best Regards
Darren Mostyn.

[Darren Mostyn]

Hi Dave,
Appreciate the feedback (no pun intended!),
Will try this out on Saturday when I return to UK and compare notes. Seems like a bit of a mis-match going on somewhere down the chain. Away on a job at the moment.
Darren.

[Darren Mostyn]

Hi guys,
Will try mine (PAL settings) when I get back on Saturday and let you know if it gives the jitters! Away on a job at the moment.
Darren.

[Darren Mostyn]

If I drop my analogue signal -6dB to go into the system to compensate for it coming out 6dB higher (at least) I WILL be losing some quality. As you say it can reduce by -90dB but this is an exponential curve we are talking about. An initial reduction of 6dB to my signal gives me much less of a signal to mix and add effects etc. in FCP. Any other system I have worked on (Avid, Pinnacle, Sony Xpri, ES-3) allows me to set and fine tune audio reference/attenuation for the hardware. I would love to work with SDI or AES/EBU audio all the time and remedy this situation but whilst some of my clients still hand me Beta SP tapes and I do not have a spare

[Darren Mostyn]

Thanks Ed. Would be interested to know (not that I can suddenly start editing in NTSC of course!!!).

[Darren Mostyn]

I have Aja IO on FCP5 with Tiger (plus update)Dual 2.7 G5, 2.5Gb Ram. I installed the new AJA drivers from web site. Box haven’t had any problems so far. This is a new install so early days but I haven’t had a single crash yet and I have been thrashing it for a few days now.
Darren Mostyn.

[Darren Mostyn]

Bob, Hi.
I understand what you are saying, and of course that would work. My point was that even if I reduce my levels (as you rightly suggest) to compensate for the Aja box then I am reducing quality. Basically, the level in does not equal the level out on the Aja IO box. I can ‘compensate’ for this in my mixer but I will be losing quality by reducing the level available (ie, the full level) to allow Aja to add not 4, but more like 8 or 9 dB on the output. (PPM diference between 4 and 6 is 8dB).
I will try this out and see anyway. I am also reducing the output level in FCP so we’ll see if this sounds good.
BTW – Tested the box for frame accurate insert editing and it worked a treat. All seems great with it except this issue. Is this a PAL only thing..? Surely it is an easy firmware fix..?
Thanks again,
Darren Mostyn.

[Darren Mostyn]

Thanks Bob for the quick response. I have a mixer (spirit folio), but all this will do is take a now overmodulated signal and reduce it in my mixer -this is surely not the way to keep audio levels best quality.
So, I presume there is still no way to reduce this level from the IO box.
Best Regards
Darren.