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XL1 Audio Crisis- Help?

 

 


mwieser
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Dec 7, 2005, 9:27 PM

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XL1 Audio Crisis- Help? Can't Post

SHot two hours today on XL1 using MA-200 adapter - Monitored levels with headphones and meter, everything looked (sounded) kosher until I got home and popped tapes into DV deck - CRAP for sound too low to use with a hiss. Popped the tapes back into XL1 and checked with headphones, audio is fine with camera playback. Have had no problems with deck. I'll now try to capture from camera. Any advice suggestions as to what's going on here? Help! Otherwise I have to drive fours and use a day to reshoot.....


MikeW
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Dec 11, 2005, 1:54 PM

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Re: [mwieser] XL1 Audio Crisis- Help? [In reply to] Can't Post

Have you tried to capture your footage analog?
At least you have to option of boosting the audio sending it through a mixer and then into your system.


smitty
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Dec 12, 2005, 12:25 AM

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Re: [mwieser] XL1 Audio Crisis- Help? [In reply to] Can't Post

Did you record 12bit or 16 bit?What capture program are you using?


mwieser
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Dec 12, 2005, 12:20 PM

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Re: [smitty] XL1 Audio Crisis- Help? [In reply to] Can't Post

I'm using FInalCut - SOmething going on with camera - Here's what happned: when I monitor during capture, audio is bad/nonexistant,barely perceptible although the meter on a vhs deck connected to dv deck register audio. After I capture and put clip in sequence, audio is fine. This is only with recent tapes, older tapes are fine....weird...


RatVega
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Dec 12, 2005, 1:34 PM

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I'm using FInalCut - SOmething going on with camera - Here's what happned: when I monitor during capture, audio is bad/nonexistant,barely perceptible although the meter on a vhs deck connected to dv deck register audio. After I capture and put clip in sequence, audio is fine. This is only with recent tapes, older tapes are fine....weird...

Boy, I'd sure be looking for a connection problem here... The good news is that if the audio makes it through to the timeline, it's only in the monitoring circuits. Start looking wherever the audio leaves the primary data path.

Also, don't forget that if resources start to dwindle, FCP will always give first priority to the things that get the footage in. That's why you sometimes see a very jerky image on the computer screen during capture - it isn't getting the same amount of service that the datastream is getting.





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