Apple Final Cut Pro 6 User Manual
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Part IV
Logging, Capturing, and Importing
To capture and edit digital audio properly, make sure your footage and equipment
meets the following requirements:
 Matching timecode on videotapes and audio tapes: During production, recording the
same timecode signal for both video and audio makes it easy to synchronize video
and audio clips in post-production. If timecode doesn’t match, you can manually
synchronize your video and audio clips in the Timeline and then create merged clips.
 Remote device control: Your audio tape player needs to support device control so
that Final Cut Pro can capture audio precisely and recapture consistently.
 A video sync generator (blackburst generator): Provides a common timing signal for
both the audio tape player and the audio interface you are using to capture.
 External sync input on devices and interfaces: Ideally, your video and audio devices
and your audio interface should accept an external sync signal so that all frame rates
and audio sample rates are timed together exactly.
For more information about connecting a blackburst generator to your video and audio
equipment, see “