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Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 8/27/2008, 1:31 PM
well I have just tried 4ch audio on the S270 and I am only getting channels 1 & 2 , 3 and 4 are no where to be seen.

What a let down, make a 4 channel audio camera available at last and the software does not Handel it
farss wrote on 8/27/2008, 1:48 PM
What did you capture the video from, the camera or a VCR. There's only one VCR that'll handle the audio, the M35.

Bob.
Cheno wrote on 8/27/2008, 1:58 PM
This has been a DV / HDV issue from day one - getting 4 channel audio over firewire.

We just had this issue with a live event shoot. Ended up having to take channels 3 & 4 into the editor via analog capture.

I wish it was easy as reading multichannel audio like XDCAM but if anyone has found a better solution, I'm wanting to know as well.

cheno
johnmeyer wrote on 8/27/2008, 4:34 PM
We just had this issue with a live event shoot. Ended up having to take channels 3 & 4 into the editor via analog capture. I don't know the answer to Bob's question about HDV, but for DV, you can use Scenalyzer and capture all four channels at once without having to spend the extra time and take the quality hit of capturing the second two channels via analog. The other two channels are put into a WAV file and you then just drop that on the timeline below your main video and audio tracks.
Xander wrote on 8/27/2008, 4:44 PM
Based on Johnmeyer's suggestion, sounds like you could do a double capture. First pass is HDV + Audio 1. Second pass is DV (Camera downscale over firewire) + Audio1 + Audio 2 (using Scenalyzer).
Cheno wrote on 8/27/2008, 8:07 PM
The Scenealyzer option is actually a good suggestion for a second pass. I'l suggest that to the editor. It was shot HDV and how I wish Scenealyzer would come up with an HDV capture app.

cheno
John_Cline wrote on 8/27/2008, 11:10 PM
Yes, an HDV version of Scenalyzer would be great!
Cheno wrote on 8/28/2008, 6:29 AM
Just heard back from Scenalyzer though - no plans for HDV version... who wants to write a capture utility?????
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 8/28/2008, 2:02 PM
I used the camera to play back the tape
farss wrote on 8/28/2008, 2:16 PM
Thanks,
so it really is a Vegas problem.

Bob.
Cheno wrote on 8/28/2008, 3:34 PM
Yes, it's a problem with Vegas but also with Premiere. I'm going to test FCP because apparently you can select the channels you want over the firewire, 2 channels at a time or all 4 mixed (which I wouldn't want ;))
Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 9/13/2008, 10:29 AM
(below refers to the recordings from the Flash Card)

In Vegas 8.0c, If i right click the audio and click on STREAM I now have 2 stream channels and 8c builds peaks for them both, only thing is both audios are identical.

if I right click on the audio and go to properties and then the General tab I can see I actually do have audio 1 and 2 where as before I only had one (8b)

Tried the import memory recording unit but i cannot get that to see the Flash cards in my reader