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Jerry Adney
April 6, 2011 at 4:33 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

Thank you fine sir. When we manually pan the channels of the captured audio it works perfectly. I will check out the mixing and other hardware in the room where it was recorded to see why it only happens there and not the other rooms. At this point we have a solution to the FCP part of things and it’s just a matter of configuring the hardware in the recording location so it’s not necessary anymore.

Thanks to all who helped.
Jerry Adney
April 5, 2011 at 7:18 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

Nope. To narrow it down we tried on two identical workstations that both have no problem capturing other tapes with the same default settings. I am seriously stumped.
Jerry Adney
April 5, 2011 at 7:15 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

When I play it back on the deck, the levels are fine on both 1 and 2. When I capture via firewire, the levels are nearly flat on the timeline.
Jerry Adney
April 5, 2011 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

That’s what I have been thinking but I can’t figure out just which problem exists between keyboard and chair in this situation 🙂 I have tried capturing on multiple stations and they have the same problem. Video recorded in other rooms with the same models of cameras, switchers, decks, etc. captures just fine. I can’t figure out what it is about recordings from this room that are causing all of these problems. I’m about to just play one deck into another (analog) and then capture the result since the decks seem to have no problem playing back both video and audio. Then I can capture the result but it doesn’t solve my overall problem.
Jerry Adney
April 5, 2011 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

OK, I tried manually telling it to capture 3&4 and the result was the same.

Here is the part that is really confusing me. When I am in log&capture, I see levels on the preview meters when capturing 1&2. With 3&4 there were no levels. I just don’t understand why the meters are showing perfectly fine levels when playing the DVCAM tape but captured footage has unusable audio levels.
Jerry Adney
April 5, 2011 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Audio fine on DVCAMplayback, incredibly low when captured to FCP

It only gave me the option to capture tracks 1&2 and those are the only ones that should have audio. Perhaps the DSR-1800 where it was recorded was mistakenly set to record to tracks 3&4. I’ll keep playing with it but it’s driving me nuts.