You don't hear audio through your camcorder speakers.
- Make sure your cables are properly connected.
- If you are scrubbing audio in the Audio tab of the Viewer, increase the volume of the computer's audio output.
You don't hear audio on your computer's speakers when playing video from your camcorder or deck.
- Make sure the speaker's cables are properly connected.
- Make sure your audio cables are properly connected.
- If you're monitoring your audio from your computer, make sure that Mute is off, and that the computer's volume is adjusted to a reasonable level.
- When external video is set to all frames in order to monitor video using a camcorder, deck, or third-party capture card, both the video and audio are played through the external monitor and speakers that are connected to your camcorder, deck, or third-party capture card. The computer's speakers don't receive any audio. Make sure the external monitor and speakers are both on and make sure the speaker's volume level is turned up.
- Check your QuickTime audio settings in the Capture Presets tab in the Audio/Video Settings window. For details on audio sample and source settings, see About capture presets.
Captured audio sounds distorted and "crackly" during capture.
- During capture, make sure that you always set Final Cut Pro's sample rate to that of your recorded source material. Mismatched sample rates can result in pops and crackles in the audio, incorrect audio/video sync, and in generally diminished sound quality. These rates are
- 32 kHz if you're capturing media from a DV camera that was set to 12-bit recording
- 44.1 kHz if you're using your microphone input or other audio interface
- 48 kHz if you're recording from a DV camera set to 16-bit recording, or if you're recording from an audio interface capable of this rate.
Captured audio sounds fine during capture and when played in the Viewer, but when you edit it into a sequence along with other audio clips, it sounds distorted.
- Make sure that the sample rates of the audio clips you're using match the sample rate set for your sequence. If they don't, Final Cut Pro will resample your audio during playback. Mixing 44.1 kHz audio and 48 kHz audio sounds acceptable, but audio will sound best with the audio rate of your edited sequence set to 48 kHz. Upsampling audio in Final Cut Pro sounds better than downsampling it.
It's not recommended you mix 32 kHz audio (12-bit) and 48 kHz audio (16-bit) in the same sequence, as this may result in slight audio distortion.