Audio recording help needed

Is there a way to record audio from an external firewire device while recording the video from an isight camera? I'm creating online guitar lessons that would benifit greatly from a superior microphone rather than the isight camera mic.

Jazzer,
I don't think iMovie can deal with inputs from two different FireWire sources. Even if you try changing the sound input source in iMovie preferences it seems to have no effect.
Have you tried the iSight microphone?
I used it to do some voice over recording a while back and was very pleasantly surprised at it's quality.
Though the problem might be that the best placement for audio is not going to be the best for video.
Matt

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Check the recording channel in the channel strip.
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Jazzer,
I don't think iMovie can deal with inputs from two different FireWire sources. Even if you try changing the sound input source in iMovie preferences it seems to have no effect.
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I am just learning Actionscript 3 and trying to create buttons that turn a previous sound off before they turn a new one on. Also I want a button on the front that turns all sound off if it is pressed. I have attached my files in a zip folder.
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Jay Robinson2 wrote:
I've just upgraded to Logic 7.2 as I bought an intel Mac. However, for some reason the audio plays through the macs built in speaker. I've got into preferences>audio>drivers and changed the driver to 'built in line input' but it's still playing through the speaker itself. I never had this problem while i was running previous versions on my old mac
When i boot up logic it does say something that i've never seen before which could be the cause...' Project Manager database on disk has got wrong version. Rescanning required'.
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As far as the Manager... try doing a new expanded scan, overnight. This will update the database.
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Im wondering if this is possible and if so , does anbody know offhand where I can find a basic implementation of this typea thing...
I simply need to be able to read in a wav file, then record it and give it a different name. I am just trying to get this basic functionality sorted, because I will be progressing on to reading in a file, runninig some DSP algorithm on it, and then needing to save it back out, so I elieve that I need to write it in chunks much the same as the SourceDataLine buffers the sound...err am i making sense?
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S

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I'm having a little trouble with editing.
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Perhaps I missed something in the manual. Would you mind re-reading my question and helping me if it is so easy?!
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Quote from: cronnin on 06-May-11, 06:02:12
Your board is HD audio.
JPF2 should be for switches and LEDs as I recall, so go into JAUD.
Maybe this can help:
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http://img.techpowerup.org/100423/HD%20Pin%20out.jpg
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I have a table with structure as below
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