Frank Nolan
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Try sending a video signal from a deck or camera or something to the canopus and see if that helps. You dont have to capture the video but just have the signal present.
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>I run FCP with a Cinewave card, normally capturing 720×486 Beta SP in Targa Cine YUV. I can put DV and Beta SP clips in the same timeline, and they play just fine, no rendering needed.
Ah, but are you capturing the beta sp tapes using the targa cine YUV to DV codec or to 8 or 10 bit?
Though I do believe if you have the Cinewave RT Pro version it is possible to mix codecs on the timeline but that is the power of the card that is handling that, not FCP. -
As a few have said it’s possible to transfer the footage on DVD but if your client is working with Beta SP material uncompressed then the DV footage would have to be rendered to be able to play in the timeline with the uncompressed footage. So the question is really what format is the client capturing his Beta SP material in and would it be quicker and easier to just make a Beta SP dub of your 30 minute DV footage, or have to render all that footage in his FCP system to get it to play with his footage.
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As Ty said get an MBox and that would plug into a couple of channels on the mixer as well. As for intergrating ProTools into your workflow you would need to buy DV toolkit so you could export an OMF from FCP and import into Protools to do your sound editorial and mix . Then you would just re-import the final mix back into FCP as stereo AIff.
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I’ve never used the mackie onyx but if you go firewire then I would think capturing video from the decklink and audio via firewire may cause sync issues. I would capture audio and video by the same device.
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You need to get a mixer. A used mackie 1202 is around $250 and will do the job. Plug your speakers to the “control room” output. Plug all your video decks into channels 1 through 4 panning each pair left and right. The digital recorder can go into 5 & 6 and any other devices like VHS or dat etc. can go in the next set of channels. Then the audio inputs on the decklink card will plug into the “main outs” of the mixer. There are either XLR or 1/4″ plugs for these. Use the XLR’s if you can. Then you would also send the audio outputs from the decklink back into the mixer on another pair of channels to monitor your wonderful creations. Just be careful when digitizing that you dont have those return channels turned on, or you will create a feedback loop. Another way to aviod this would be to have the decklink inputs being fed from the “alt outputs” of the mixer. If all this doesn’t make much sense to you, then I suggest you have an audio pro come in and set it up for you and give you a crash course on signal flow.
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Try making your clips offline.
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> In version 5 you have mono + stereo. There is no option for ch1 + 2 separate?.
Set it to mono then there are little round buttons beside each track selector in the audio capture settings box. These are to turn off which ever track you dont want. Turn off track 1 and it will only record on track 2 and vice a versa. -
If the meters on the marantz were reading -12, it sounds like you were clippling at the mic. Then again it could be a setting in the recorder. Is there a limiter on the recorder? How far was the mic placed from the talent? Was anyone monitoring on headphones while recording?
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What meter was showing at -12? Were you going through a mixer? Explain the signal flow from mic to recorder.