Avid Media Composer - Mac

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:05:03 GMT

it is set to ON

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

BLKDOG — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:55:22 GMT

There is a setting in that deck to allow EE pass through. is it set correctly?

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:49:34 GMT

I left the tape in but the audio still conks out...

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

Todd Sanderson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:15:00 GMT

OK... but this tells us that the Avid is in fact correctly receiving an audio signal directly from the DV deck. So the issue is what is causing the audio from a secondary device, piping through the DV deck, to conk out? If you leave a DV tape in, stopped, does the DVD audio maintain? Is there possibly a feature that dictates whether audio out of the DV deck is coming off the record head or the playback head? I'd explore the audio out settings on the deck.

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:55:00 GMT

Odd indeed! I just popped a DV tape into the deck and got levels into the AVID...but that's not all. Then , I played the DVD thru the deck and got levels as well! But that's not all! I removed the tape from the deck and the audio was still there, and as I started to write this email I switched back to AVID and guess what...no levels.

The audio plays from the DVD player for a mere few seconds then cuts out. If I put a tape in the deck the audio plays from the DV tape and that's all. If I stop the tape the audio plays from the DVD player for a few secs.

P.S. The mute button doesn't make any difference and it's not the 44.1 vs. 48 either. I tried both.

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

Todd Sanderson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:35:02 GMT

Jeez... this is an odd one... a few total long shots:

Does the CPU mute button make any difference?

44.1 vs. 48khz issue?

You have audio from the DVD player to the DV Deck, and audio out via the speakers. But what about audio out via FW? Can you test that? Can you pop in a normal DV tape and get audio into the Avid?

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:25:35 GMT

Tried but not successful...I hit record for a bit and then stopped, when I hit play the picture was good but still no audio...

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

BLKDOG — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:24:42 GMT

Host -1394" is the same thing. They just changed the description.

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

Todd Sanderson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:19:41 GMT

Have you actually captured? In the past there was an issue with FW audio not registering on the meters during capture, but once the clip was captured it was there and fine. Is that happening?

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:56:45 GMT

that is not an option in Media Composer...Line In, Digital IN and Host-1394 are my only choices

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

BLKDOG — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:48:41 GMT

And is the audio input set to OHCI?

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:32:23 GMT

the audio and video are coming from the same source thru the same firewire cable...does that mean anything? When I do capture, I see the picture...just no sound.

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

BLKDOG — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:25:08 GMT

In that config, you must capture video at the same time...even if it's black. Are you?

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

anomaly_7 — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:21:50 GMT

Host-1394...

Re: No Audio During Capture!!!

Todd Sanderson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:06:20 GMT

And the audio input settings on the capture tool are set to....?