[Richard Krall]

Trashing the prefs didn’t seem to help but, I have a little time before I leave town so, I made a test. The trouble clips were made with an external mic with the correct settings for that on camera. Without a doubt, there is audio present because you can hear it on playback in camera and it imports to FCP perfectly with audio intact.

My test was to use the on-board internal mic set to ‘internal’ and ‘automatic’. The audio from this test clip now plays fine in the clip browser. It seems the problem arises when an external mic is connected. I must mention that we only had one mic connected to input 2 and no mic in input 1. Settings for the mic were (both channels/inputs) ‘external’ and ‘manual’ with volume knob set to approximately 8 on channel 2. Again, there is definitely audio on channel 2 as import to FCP proves it but, the clip browser and/or the file transfer app does not play it. Could there be a glitch when using one external mic? My next test will be to plug 2 external mics in and see what happens then. I, recently, shot a small concert with feeds to the xlr inputs from the mixing board and these play fine in the clip browser, too. Thanks for the posts, you guys. Let you know what I find out.

[Richard Krall]

Thanks Clint and Craig!
I’m the only one on this computer so, I don’t think anything was intentionally reset or messed up.
The idea of the preferences being corrupted is one I will investigate as soon as I can get back from New Orleans in a few days. Let you know then.
Thanks so much again!
rk

[Richard Krall]

Thanks for your input, Josh.
I may have to try that.

And Richard, I’ve heard extended may do this type of thing easier but, I don’t have the extended version. If that is really the way to go about it, I may have to invest in it. Is it just a simple matter of exporting it from Photoshop Extended back to FCP?

[Richard Krall]

Thank you, Craig. I read the Wikipedia thing on 24p… very informative.

When you say “Make absolutely sure you’re timeline is 23.98 and not 29.97.”, is this the ‘Sequence Preset’ in the Audio/Video settings. And can it be done after footage has been placed on the timeline or does it have to be set up prior?

I have an AJA Kona LHi card for output to an external monitor via HDMI and I have set the Sequence Preset to AJA Kona LHi: 1080psf 23.98 Apple Pro Res 422 but, this didn’t change the 4th and 5th frames from being identical. Also, I am seeing this problem on the computer screen as well as the external monitor.

I have to say, I’m pretty green at this and after reading the Wikipedia article, I still don’t know if the 4th and 5th frame thing is normal or not. Guessing it’s not based an your statement about 23.98.

Thanks for this and any additional help you care to throw my way.
RK

[Richard Krall]

I’m new here but, this is intriguing to me as I have the same comments as Greg does.

I’ve set up my 5D according to the directions in the book. Correctly exposed clips at 100 ISO show banding and compression artifacts. They are slight but, quite apparent. I’ve read so many reviews lauding the merits of the quality of this camera but, I just don’t see it compared to a good HD video camera. To me, H.264 is just too compressed to yield a quality picture… especially, if you are going to do any color grading with it. H.264 is a codec for the web not a capture codec. Wish someone could convince me otherwise. Thanks for your time.