DC Metro FCP UG

from p20 of Final Cut Pro Killer Secrets

It theoretically *should* apply to the IoHD but I’m not 100% sure.

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The Voiceover Tool makes it possible to record a voiceover clip directly into a sequence. This is fine if you’re recording a narration to picture, but there are times when it’s more useful to do an open-ended audio capture which you’ll edit together later on.

So you’ve opened the Log and Capture window, set up the microphone, disabled video capture and pressed the Capture Now button. After a couple of seconds, the capture stops. Huh? What’s going on?

The usual reason this happens is that even though the disable video in the Clip Settings tab of the Log and Capture window, Final Cut Pro still expects a video signal and if it doesn’t see one then the capture is aborted.

A solution is to set up a dedicated capture preset that you only use for voiceover recording.

1    Choose Final Cut Pro > Audio/Video Settings > Capture Presets tab.
2    Locate the current capture preset in the list and click the Duplicate button.
3    Change the name of the duplicated preset to a suitable name such as “Voiceover”.
4    Change the Video Digitizer to “None”.
5    Change the Audio device to the desired input and click OK.

Next time you want to record a voiceover, select this preset in the Capture Settings tab of the Log and Capture window and you should find that you can capture audio only without any problems.
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Martin Baker
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The Tale of the Tape

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Final Cut Studio – Defragmenting Your Hard Disk

Tip Jar

Back in the days of Mac OS 9, we followed the monthly ritual of defragmenting our hard drives.

Today, that practice is no longer recommended for any drives that we are using to store media captured, or rendered, by Final Cut Studio.

The reason is fairly simple: when we play video, we don’t play it from the beginning of the clip till the end. Instead we play it from the middle of a clip to the middle of a clip. In others, we play our media in a fragmented fashion.

Final Cut takes advantage of this fact and stores our media in what it calls an “optimized” fashion. Defragmenting a hard drive used to store media, instead of speeding it up, slows things down by removing this optimization.

So, feel free to defragment your boot drives. Just don’t do so with your scratch disks.