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Question

The game is called "Guess the appropriatre video/audio settings for you video files" and I'm losing every time.
Panasonic GS-500 camera, standard 16:9 DV PAL video/16-bit 44.1KHz audio. Can ANYONE provide the FCP audio/video, capture and sequence settings for GS-500 16:9 footage?
Importing direct from tape, video is OK (although I have to hit play on the camera itself to get FCP to import, rewind and play etc can be controlled from FCP), but I get a message saying the audio is a different format to what's on the tape. Video imported from files (previously imported in iMovie) are OK, but the audio requires rendering! It's all very frustrating, given iMovie just works it's sh*t out on the fly and you can get on with it.
If you are a successful GS-500+FCP user, I would REALLY appreciate some feedback - screen shots (or otherwise) of your settings would be ideal, so I can have a win!
Thanks
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Mr FCP Frustration (Perry)
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Answer 1

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This is a question of knowing how to operate your camera, not figuring out how FCP works. Although reading the manuals for FCP will end the other frustration. If you are set up to capture for 48k and your audio is 41k, you will receive an error. Once you understand how things work, and it's not easy, you will be appreciate this warning system.
The specs say 16-bit 48KHz sound, but I did use a Rode videomic for this footage which might have resulted in the weird sample rate...Whatever I do I can't seem to get FCP to like the audio of any of my clips, with either Rode or built-in mic (as I said video seems to be OK)... < </div>
Never heard of that thing but the mic should not have had nothing to do with it. The mic can't automatically tell the camera to change recording settings, can it? That would cool, come to think of it. No, I'd say you had to make a deliberate change to the audio sampling settings on your camcorder. Time to get out the manual and determine either how you did that or if the mic is capable.
In FCP you can easily create a sequence setting that will use 41k audio natively without processing. Open the FCP help system or the manuals and look for how to create a custom sequence setting. This is generally not recommended because you can't do anything with the 41k audio except use it for other 41k apps or 41k delivery and there aren't many. You would need to transcode the audio to 48k to give it to anyone else or to hand it off to another conventional application.
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