Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 297)

296 Part IV Logging, Capturing, and Importing
Capturing From an Audio Device Without Device Control
If your audio device does not support device control, you can manually press play on
the audio device and click the Capture Now button in the Log and Capture window.
However, without device control connected, Final Cut Pro cannot receive timecode. If
you capture a media file without timecode, you will not be able to accurately recapture
your footage again later.
Transferring Audio to Media That Supports Timecode
If you want the ability to recapture your audio again later, you need to capture from
media that has timecode using a deck that supports device control. One solution is to
dub your audio onto a tape format that has a timecode track, such as DV or Digital
Betacam. If you dub your audio to DV, make sure you use 16-bit (2-channel) audio
mode so you record at the highest possible quality. Once your audio is transferred,
you can capture your DV audio clips using FireWire and DV device control, the same
way would capture DV video clips.
Capturing Synchronized Audio Independently From Video
If you are editing material acquired via dual system recording, meaning that video and
audio are recorded simultaneously to different devices, you need to capture your audio
and video separately and then synchronize them together in Final Cut Pro. After
capturing, you can combine the corresponding video and audio clips into a merged
clip. Merged clips work in the same way as other clips in Final Cut Pro, but they refer to
separate video and audio media files (whereas most other clips, such as clips captured
from DV tape, refer only to a single media file that contains both video and audio). For
more information about merged clips, see Volume II, Chapter 3, “Merging Clips From
Dual System Video and Audio.”
CD
Cassette
Media without timecode
DAT with
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Media with timecode
DAT without
timecode