Old school Audio ?

Mac OS X 10.4.11 Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
1mb L3 cache/processor
1GB DDR SDRAM

Final Cut Pro HD 4.5

Stupid question...
I am trying to "Print to Video", and am having trouble getting the audio to show up on the tape (yea, a miniDV tape). Both Final Cut and the camera are indicating that there is audio in the sequence that should be there, but I don't get any audio on the tape. If I have the camera plugged into the computer (firewire) before the program is opened, then open the program, I have trouble getting the audio to the tape (and can not hear audio coming out of the computer). If I do not plug the camera in, I hear audio from the computer, but the camera doesn't seem to recognize that the computer is trying to export a video.

Ideas?

Check Audio/Video Settings -- make sure your external audio is set to FireWire, not Built-In Audio.


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THe audio presets are currently set up with the "DV-NTSC FireWire Basic" with

Sequence Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
Capture Preset: DV NTSC 48kHz
Device Control Preset: Firewire NTSC Basic
Playback Output Video: Apple FireWire NTSC (720x480)
Playback Output Audio: Firewire DV
Edit to Tape/PTV Output Video: Same as Playback
Edit to Tape/PTV Output Audio: Same as Playback

Thanks. THe Playback Output for audio is "FireWire DV"

If I missed something, and the output seems to be FireWire...?

you could try a simple export to tape, not a "Print To Video"

OR
double check your edit to tape settings, maybe audio is not selected.
(is that a possibility? i so rarely did edit to tape or print to video)


nick

From the sound of it, your problem is your recording device-- assuming it's connected via FireWire, you need to set your input not to camera but to VCR mode-- or whatever mode exists that isn;t "camera" or "photo" mode.

Then listen for audio signal either through the camera headphone jack or built-in speaker-- and see if you get a video image on the camera LCD. Then you're set to go.

BTW, I was fond of Print to Video, it provides Bars and Tone, countdown, black intervals heads and tail, really cool stuff.

But you still have to control the camera like it's a VCR. Playback mode- yeah, that's it. You can record in playback mode assuming you see a Record button.

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It looks like it's the recording device. When FCP is not hooked up to the camera, I hear audio fine. When the camera is recording (in VCR mode), I can barley hear the audio on the camera. The computer is indicating the audio levels in FCP are where I want them. Ideas on where to start looking?

Specify camera model?

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