[Kim Rowley]

Thanks for the response Ron. That can happen very easily, I know. I once finished a super urgent edit job – having worked non stop 2 days and one night – for a worldwide satellite transmission and rushed out the door to deliver without the tape. Had to rush back to get it and made it to air just in the nick of time. Not good for blood pressure : ).
At any rate, I’m especially glad I’m still in time to enter. (At least it’s fun to try!)

Happy anniversary and thanks again for the priceless work you all do.
kim

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[Kim Rowley]

I’ve been running FCP 5.0.3, MacOSX 10.4.3, QT 7.0.3 for about a month too and haven’t encountered anything strange. I’m only into my 5th month on FCP and still consider myself somewhat of a newbie (though I’ve been an editor for 11 years) but use it day in and day out and haven’t encountered noticable conflicts.

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[Kim Rowley]

OK – got the answer a minute a go over on the AJA forum. I’ve copied and pasted the response for the sake of completing the story in this forum too. I’ve checked out the settings menu in question and that was the culprit.

Check your A/V Settings in the Device Control tab, click Edit. Check to see if the deck’s audio mapping is set to 4 tracks. If that doesn’t fix it, then, try dragging your master sequence to the Viewer, not the Canvas, and ETT from the Viewer.

steve covello
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[Kim Rowley]

Thanks Steve! That was the problem. My mind was stuck on all the concievable “audio” output settings and I didn’t realize that the AJA I/O easy set-up was set to 2 channels. And even more importantly that it was changeble within that particular menu. I don’t know if that is a default setting or whether it was the Apple technician that set up my system did that…. Grrrr!! At any rate thanks so much. I was sure it was something simple but I couldn’t find that magic window! Thanks again and Ciao!

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[Kim Rowley]

Thanks Nick, but the problem is that all channels besides ch 1 and 2 are greyed out in the dialogue box you mention. I must have some setting set wrong somewhere but I can’t figure out where. Any other ideas?

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[Kim Rowley]

Just for the benefit of readers of this thread, I opted for laying to tape in 2 passes. The print to video command turned out to be no good since my Master tape must begin at 00:02:30:00 and precision is not possibile with that option. Hopefully I’ll nail down the problem for future projects. One other thing I learned from this experience is to be careful about what your scratch disk is for render files. Mine was on my internal drive and since as Walter correctly said earlier I needed to render before laying out to tape since a cc filter was used. Almost 150 gig later I realized that my sequence was now on my internal drive! I may be the only one out there who could master such a thing but if it can be useful to anybody else…

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[Kim Rowley]

Have my sequence settings open – audio outputs set to 4 – am seeing 4 output channels (dual mono) but the only option I have is to change their dB output levels. No sign of how to manually patch channels. I have manually patched in the audio mixer of FCP in the tools menu. As I say, if I just hit play in my sequence, I am seeing all 4 channels both in the audio mixer of FCP as well as in my deck. The problem arises only in the edit to tape window. I’m going to see if I have the same problem in the print to video window… Only into my third month of FCP after 8 years of M100. Wouldn’t think of going back. I love FCP but M100 was a little more seamless ot this stage of the workflow. I only say that since if I’m not mistaken you are a past M100 user too…

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[Kim Rowley]

Walter – or anybody else… I hate to overstay my welcome on this issue but I’m having one final (I hope) settings conflict that I haven’t been able to overcome. I am outputting 4 channels of audio to Digibeta via SDI connector straight from the AJA I/O. In E-E mode the 4 channels flow through to the Deck fine, but when I try to edit to tape, I am only seeing 2 yellow dots for output to Ch 1 and 2. I’ve checked the A/V settings and have 8 channels possible but that option is not carrying over to the possible channels available in the edit to tape window. Where am I missing something? Thanks again.

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[Kim Rowley]

I think you hit the nail on the head. I did not do that and did indeed put a color correction filter on the duration of the sequence. I see that I will quickly develop a habit of Rendering all before output to tape. Since I wasn’t getting the red render line in my sequence it didn’t even come to mind. Thanks Walter.

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[Kim Rowley]

Nick is correct. I’ll just maybe expand on that since that is precisely what I labored through yesterday. I had 4 audio mixdowns for a 4 language Master and was having precisely your problem outputting via the SDI output straight to my deck.
First, in your sequence settings make sure you have the output set at 4 channels and select dual mono for all 4.
Then as the previous post states, open up the audio mixer under the tools menu. If you control click in the fisrt column next to each single track, you have the possibility of patching that to a particular output. Make sure you patch straight through 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 and 4-4. MAke sure that the down mix button is disabled.
Explained (in a kind of vieiled way) in Vol III pages 61 and 69.
Hope this helps.
kim

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