Sports Mix? Voice over?

Quick, perhaps dumb question: I purchased a sports mix from iTunes and the music is great. I'm told that there is supposed to be motivational stuff on the mix(vs. the standard prompts from the nano) but nothing is there but my music? Also, the first time around my music wasn't accessible from teh nike+ menu on the nano...once I moved the album into a play list, i was able to use. Am a doing some wrong?
Tia.

The voice instructions are part of the increasing your endurance, speed etc. The Nike Drive track will have your nano give you 1/2 mile marker commands and telling you the half way point and a 100 meter count down from 400 meters out. You have to use the continuous track (usually about 40 minutes in length) to get the coaching and I was told that you have to have a nano to get them but I don't think that's true because I listened to the endurance 1 track on my PC and I could hear Coach Salazar giving his commands.

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i have PMG5 2.5 GHz with FCS & Blackmagic Decklink extreme card.
all these days i had a great time working on FCP . till i faced a peculiar problem
when i am capturing video from Beta or DV 50 , i am able to select video Only or Audio only , or Video & Audio .
but when iam trying to capture Audio Only option through the the Mic which is connected to the mixer, i am not able to capture audio.
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but i can use built in audio for my voiceover.
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Hi Rajendra,
your questions is marked as solved, but I haven't seen your question answered, so I might be wasting time. Anyway.
I bumped into the same problem not long ago. I'm using a Multibridge, but the problem and solution are the same. Here's the reply I got from Kristian Lam over at Blackmagic:
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steps to follow:
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2) In the View menu of Final Cut Pro HD, set External Video to “Off”. When finished with the Voice Over tool, set External Video to “All Frames” to use the broadcast monitor.
3) You must have a stable video signal going into the card when using the vo tool or Final Cut Pro HD will not see the audio. (or use a Blackburst generator)
4) Use the Displays menu to set the DeckLink desktop to the same format as the video source, eg. NTSC 720 x 486.
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+Both of my Macs, Primary and Secondary, happily record Voice Over, via the Voice Over tool.+
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Sorry -- I'm not sure how the Mbox works... but you cannot monitor VO back from the computer as you're VOing.
SO -- if the Mbox can monitor the audio track then use that. Most of us use some type of mixing board... even a two channel one will do.
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gdg444 wrote:
I have always heard that if you just raised the level using gain you take the chance of also introducing more noise in the signal and I was wanting to avoid that.
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That's not really a great way to handle mono audio, in my opinion. When you double audio tracks, you're literally doubling the audio; all your levels will be jacked up, because you're superimposing sound. What Shane said is what I understand to be the correct way — as far as there's ever a correct way to do anything — to handle mono audio. You pan your left and right stereo tracks to the left and the right, but you keep your mono tracks panned center (or automate the pan for things like foley effects on moving shots, stuff like that).
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Yes. The procedure I went through was the following.
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I am using a Logitech USB mic. Perhaps that is
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OUCH! this made me wince in sympathy pains. what you need for a decent voiceover - i do this in my edit room - are some sound blankets on the floor, a sennheiser me66 in the mic stand pointing down, above and in front of he talent, going into your mixer and then into your vtr or your mac. personally, i go into my vtr and use tape so i can turn off the computers.
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I am recording a voice over for a rolling news type segment with one mail narrator. Are there a few effects out there anyone can recommend that they would normally use for this style of audio, that kind of BBC news reader effect.
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no I don't think so, the guy is news and media commentator Ray Snoddy - I've seen him on many occasions and that's just his normal voice.
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