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Audio/Video
Settings Menu The Audio/Video Settings menu in Final Cut Pro contains a series of tabbed
windows where you define the presets in specific categories such as A/V devices or in
what format media is captured. When you open the Audio/Video Settings window,
it shows a summary of the currently selected Easy Setup. Other tabbed windows are
available with greater details about each category. On the initial summary window
you can see the selected presets for the Easy Setup as well as change specific presets.
The presets you can change on the Summary window are:
Sequence Preset—select one of these as the editing timebase for the current
sequence. Once you add a clip to the sequence this cannot be changed. For
example, once you’ve selected uncompressed 10-bit NTSC 48 kHz, you then
have to stay in that timebase and can’t switch to another. If you make a change
to Sequence Presets, the change will only take effect on any new sequences you
create—currently active sequences will not see the change.
Capture Preset—select one of these to set the incoming source format you’ll be
capturing. Ideally select the maximum quality format you’ll be using for most of
the material so there will be no need to re-render later as clips are added from
the bin to the sequence.
Device Control Preset—select the AJA Video Io device (NTSC or PAL as desired).
This tells Final Cut that the Io
LD/LA
will be controlled via FireWire and sets all
the machine control parameters for the VTR attached to Io.
A/V Devices (Audio and Video Playback)—select the Io
LD/LA
as video and audio
playback devices for Final Cut and the format to be output. If Io
LD/LA
isn’t
connected or is turned off, these will be shown as “[Missing]...”.
Note: actual Audio/Video Setting choices differ slightly between Io, Io
LD
, and
Io
LA
, so your screens may vary from those shown here (taken on an Io system).
Audio/Video Settings, Summary Window