[Terry Gallagher]

Have you got a level coming in to the FCP from the mic? You should see this without having to record.

Make sure the input/source are correctly set in the Voice Over window, what these should be depends on your set up. Your timeline needs an in and out point (you have to set an area to of the timeline to record to), before FCP will record onto the time line. Not 100% but I don’t think you can record VO if ‘log and capture’ or ‘Edit to tape’ windows are open.

Have you tried recording audio in other programmes? This is more to check that the audio is making it through the mic and mixer alright.

[Terry Gallagher]

“MODIFY the timecode on the original footage”

You mean changing the timecode on the captured clips (right?). I wasn’t aware you could change the TC once captured, how would I go about doing this?

Also could there be an argument for using edit to tape to insert just timecode on the new HDCam tape. I know it would be in real time but is there any other disadvantages?

[Terry Gallagher]

Had a similar problem recently (same problem with digi and also external monitor), was solved by reinstalling the blackmagic drivers

[Terry Gallagher]

hmmmmm, got motion 4 at home so will be give it a try when I get back.

Thanks

[Terry Gallagher]

Yes, I am indeed using Motion 3.

…The fact that you asked makes me worry that it’s going to be a line by line job.

[Terry Gallagher]

That doesn’t seem to work for me. Line spacing is retained but it’s the bold/nonbold and font are not.

[Terry Gallagher]

I’ve managed to get the edge out of the final video now. I also found a slightly better way of explain the problem.

It seems the image mask has a bit of the alpha channel ‘bleeding’ through on the outer pixel of the mask. When this mask was put on top of the text, which was bright it caused the outer pixel to let some of the brightness through.

Here’s my workaround:
I redid the 2nd mask using a copy of the text with a glow so it was bigger, when the opacity was faded up the parts outside the final text are camouflaged in the graphic behind the text.

Not too difficult in the end, but I’m sure it’s not the idea way to do such a task, so still advice and explainations would be great to hear. Why there is there a bit of alpha channel on the outer pixel of an image mask (if that is the case)? Where else could the edge of the the mask?

Cheers

[Terry Gallagher]

Thanks,

Image masks seem to be working a lot better.