Audio Problem ... not detecting it

jayhink wrote on 9/10/2004, 12:33 AM

Hi everyone --

I am testing my equipment as I'm getting ready to do my first wedding shoot in two weeks. However, I've run into a snag. One of the cameras I am using is a Sony Hi-8 broadcast camera (the EVO 300, I think) with an external hand-held mic and a nat sound on-board mic. It belongs to a TV station that I work at.

Here's the problem: When I run the tape through my consumer Hi-8 camera (Sony Handy-Cam) in Player mode, the Capture doesn't capture either audio track. I'm not very schooled in how different cameras read different audio tracks, etc. so I am not sure how to deal with the problem. Audio shot through the Handy-Cam is converted fine.

One thing may be key: The Handy-Cam only has one audio out on it. I've switched the right and left on the Canopus input to make sure it wasn't a "matching up" problem. Is it possible those channels from the ENG camera are on the channel not being outputted by the Handy-Cam?

I am running Vegas 4.0 and converting the analog video through the Canopus ADVC-100. Thanks in advance for replies.

Jay

Comments

cosmo wrote on 9/10/2004, 8:42 AM

First off - you may want to post this in the video forum if you haven't already. Those guys know a lot about this stuff.

I'm guessing the camcorder you own has a single mono audio in/out jack. Since whatever you're doing for sure doesn't work, try getting an RCA Y-adaptor to merge the left and right signals into one mono signal. I used to do that with my Sony Hi-8 handycam. If you still lose your audio the only thing I can think of would be to pull the audio off the tape separately. Syncing might be tricky but you won't lose the audio.

jayhink wrote on 9/16/2004, 12:51 AM

Thanks for the reply, cosmo. I'll purchase a Y adaptor and see if that works. I'll also post on the Vegas Video board.

Jayhink