FCStudio2 - Voice Over Tool not working

We just recently upgraded to FCStudio2 and are wanting to use the VO feature. First we ran into the fact that we had to have Log and Capture open to record the audio but we didn't get the countdown. Then w/o log and capture, we get the countdown, but not the VO recorded audio. Now, today, it works with or w/o log and capture open, but cannot get the playback to work with the VO. What a frustrating tool.....any ideas? We have Blackmagic card and Soundbooth mic going to mixer then from mixer to computer.

I believe the issue is with the Blackmagic card rather than FCP or the VO Tool specifically ... your I/O card does not identify itself to the system as an audio interface but rather a video digitizing (vdig) interface ... hence FCP's VO tool (which is looking for an audio interface) doesn't see it (or something like that). I would imagine that your Log and Capture window open method is a kind of hack that is causing the card to activate and hence onpass the signal to the VO Tool ... I don't know if its an officially sanctioned method for using the VO Tool but it sounds a bit quirky.
I can tell you that the VO Tool seems to work just fine here with my audio specific interface (Sound Devices USBPre) ... I dare say that doesn't help but hopefully it frames the problem a little.

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