Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 924)

Chapter 7 Using the Voice Over Tool 139
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Important: If you select a DV camcorder as your recording device and External Video is
enabled in the View menu, a message appears saying that you cannot record using
DV audio. Before you can record, choose View > External Video > Off.
Step 2: Connect a microphone to a microphone preamplifier, and connect the
preamplifier to your audio interface
Some audio interfaces have microphone preamplifiers built in. For more information,
see the documentation that came with the audio interface.
Step 3: Open the Voice Over tool and choose audio input settings
You need to set up the Voice Over tool to correspond to the audio equipment
you’ve connected.
To select an audio input in the Voice Over tool:
1 Choose Tools > Voice Over.
2 Choose your audio interface from the Source pop-up menu.
3 Choose the audio interface input your microphone is connected to from the Input
pop-up menu. For example, if you connected your microphone to input 2 on your
audio interface, choose input 2 here.
4 Choose a sample rate that matches your sequence sample rate.
To determine the audio sample rate of your sequence, see Volume IV, Chapter 27,
“Sequence Settings and Presets.”
Step 4: Choose an audio track and duration for your voiceover
In the Browser, select and open the sequence to which you want to add a voiceover,
then set In and Out points where you want the voiceover to begin and end.
Step 5: Determine the offset of your audio interface
Every digital recording device has some latency from the time audio enters the
microphone to the time it’s processed. This latency can cause your narration to be
offset by a few frames from your video. You can adjust this offset in the Voice Over tool
so that your audio is recorded exactly in sync with your sequence. In general, USB
audio interfaces have an offset of one frame and DV camcorders have an offset of three
frames. Other interfaces may have different offsets.