Hi,

Having trouble capturing audio.  I have my DVD player hooked up to my deck (panasonic ag-dv2500)  and the deck is firewire into the computer.  In the capture tool I switch over to non-deck control mode, and I select video and 2 tracks of audio.  The video comes in fine... but no audio?  Audio source is set to 'Host-1394'.

I have a s-video cable from the dvd player to the deck for video, and 2 rca's for audio.  I can see the meters moving on the deck so it would seem the audio is getting to the deck but for some reason not to MC.  This setup used to work when I was on Xpress Pro 5.2.4.  Could I be missing a setting somewhere?

thanks,

-Peter B

prberg:

The video comes in fine... but no audio? 

Yep, that's a nice little "Design" flaw in the software. Looping through a DV device to capture via FW will not pass audio through.

One workaround that has worked for some in the past is to put the DV deck into record and actually reocrd the audio to tape as you caputure.

Thanks for the quick response.  I thought I was going crazy (I swear I could get audio to capture in Xpress Pro).  Indeed putting my deck in record mode will allow Avid to see the audio and it captures fine then.  Thanks for the workaround!

Is is something where a deck will send the audio over the 1394 in different ways when the deck is recording and when it's just in pass through mode?  For some reason MC doesn't see the audio when the deck is in 'pass through' mode?

I wonder why Avid didn't put this in the readme (I looked through the limitations twice).  I am assuming they will have this fixed in the next release?  I hope this isn't a planned limitation... forcing us to buy the nitris dx.  Losing features from Xpress Pro to MC is more of the "old thinking" (hopefully I'm just jumping to conclusions here).

prberg:

Losing features from Xpress Pro to MC is more of the "old thinking" (hopefully I'm just jumping to conclusions here).