Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 924)

Chapter 8 Using the Voice Over Tool 137
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Connecting Audio Devices and Configuring Software
Setting up your computer to record voiceover involves several steps.
Step 1: Install or connect an audio interface
An audio interface can be your computer’s built-in audio port, a PCI audio card, a USB
audio device, or a DV camcorder connected via FireWire. Regardless of which audio
interface you use, it must be compatible with Mac OS X. Once your recording device is
connected, the Voice Over tool automatically detects it and adds it to the list of devices
in the Source pop-up menu. (If you connect a USB audio device, it can take up to 10
seconds for Final Cut Pro to detect it.)
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 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 window:
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 26,
“Sequence Settings and Presets.”
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