[Waddy Padilla]

Thanks for your help.

Those settings worked pretty well and gave the track the ‘umph’ I was looking for. We’ll see how it sounds on the air.

I didn’t have to raise the levels to 2 or 3 and actually had to use keyframes in a few places to bring some peaks down.

Overall, using the ‘all 2s” formula was a major improvement.

However, here’s another question…It seems like anytime I have messed with compression, I get a tinny, almost robotic sound. It was relatively low with the formula, but it was there. I don’t know that the casual listener would pick up on this, but it bugs me. How does one reduce this side effect of compression?

Thanks again.
-Waddy

[Waddy Padilla]

Thanks for the info David.

I have been told before that compression was the way to go, but everytime I used it, It gave it a very artificial sound.

Any ideas what settings specifically should be used. I know that with compression, a little goes a long way…but a little of what? Threshold? ratio? etc.

Peace
-Waddy

[Waddy Padilla]

I’m so close to figuring this out. Truth is, I’d be done now if I had just started to re-log and capture. Now it’s a matter of principal to learn this thing.

Nevertheless, I made the clips off line (FCP Manual Vol2. Ch. 7) and control clicked on the video and audio settings and changed them as you recommended. When I capture the clips, they revert to the old settings, “V1” and no audio.

Waddy World Productions

[Waddy Padilla]

Finally found the “tracks” column. I needed my browser to be in “list” view, not as icons.

Still hasn’t remedied my problem though. When I control click in the video column, it says, “no shortcuts.” In the audio column, I get nothing when I control click. I’ve already started just going back and recapturing every clip again with audio this time. It seems there should have been a much simpler way to do this.

Thanks for all the help anyway.

Waddy World Productions

[Waddy Padilla]

I’m using FCP 4.5. Capturing miniDV from my Panasonic DVX-100a using firewire. The capture is working fine. There is audio on the tape, and when I captured just one clip independently, it worked fine.

When I click on any of these clips in the browser and select Item Properties from the edit menus, the entire audio column is grey and furthermore, the audio information at the bottom, (format and rate) are blank.

I haven’t found the “tracks” column in the browser as the first respondant recommended.

All the clips I’m trying to capture are online. I want to overwrite them with clips that have both audio and video. I believe they were all captured without audio the first time around.

Waddy World Productions