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Working with Apple Final Cut Pro
6 Choose Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.
7 On the General pane, select Medium or High from the Audio Playback
Quality
menu, and then click OK.
8 Assign the audio track that contains the Matrox 4VANC AFD data on your
timeline to audio output 15.
9 To avoid having to render a part of your sequence for playback when
working with more than eight audio tracks, set the
Real-Time Audio
Mixing
option to 16 in Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.
¦NoteTo preserve the integrity of the AFD data for playback, do not manipulate
the audio track that contains the AFD data in any way. For example, do not adjust
the audio gain or balance, or add audio effects to the tracks.
Settings for exporting Matrox 4VANC AFD
To maintain the Matrox 4VANC AFD data when exporting a clip with Matrox
4VANC AFD data to a file for playback using Final Cut Pro or Matrox Vetura
Playback (see Chapter 11, “Using Matrox Vetura Capture and Vetura Playback”),
you must observe the following criteria:
• If you want to play back the exported file with AFD data using Matrox
Vetura Playback, assign the audio track that contains the Matrox 4VANC
AFD data on your timeline to audio output 15. To do so, choose
Sequence
> Settings
, and on the Audio Outputs pane, enable 16 channels of audio
for your sequence by selecting
16 from the Outputs menu. Set tracks 15 and
16 as
Dual Mono, and then assign the audio track that contains the Matrox
4VANC AFD data on your timeline to audio output 15.
¦NoteTo avoid having to render a part of your sequence when working with
more than eight audio tracks, set the
Real-Time Audio Mixing option to 16
in
Final Cut Pro > User Preferences.
• The audio must be set to
24-bit 48 kHz, and the audio configuration must be
set to
Discrete Channels.
• Use a lossless or uncompressed audio format. Compressed audio formats are
not supported.
¦NoteUse the File > Export > QuickTime Movie export option to set your
audio settings for export. You cannot set audio settings for export using the
Using QuickTime Conversion export option.