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Note: the level meters on the Audio Mixer in Final Cut Pro 4 are a little
different than Final Cut Pro’s level master. These meters represent 12db headroom
above nominal or “0.” To conform to professional levels as described above, peaks
should hit –8db.
First Time You Run
Final Cut The first time you run Final Cut Pro after installing it, it will present the “Choose
Setup” prompt. Here is where you should select a default input format for Io
LD/LA
in the “Setup For” pulldown and select a system scratch disk (your RAID). Final
Cut User documentation explains this in the installation procedures.
Easy Setups for Typical Uses
Final Cut and Io systems together make working with multiple formats an easy
proposition. Inside of Final Cut, equipment and setting presets are available in
groups called Easy Setups, from which you can choose typical system
configurations. A large set of Easy Setups comes with Final Cut Pro, including
many unique to Io
LD/LA
and some for handling direct connection of FireWire
camcorders and devices. These factory canned choices can be used directly or as
the basis for making your own customized Easy Setups unique to your system. By
duplicating a factory Easy Setup and then making changes to it, you simplify the
process of configuring and re-configuring when working with new formats.
Although this manual assumes you’re familiar with Final Cut Pro and have read its
documentation, let’s review Easy Setups and how to use them effectively.
At the simplest level, Final Cut lets you choose and edit presets for capturing
media, device control, and for project sequences. These presets are defined in the
Audio/Video Settings menu. Just like Easy Setups, here there are also factory
defined choices—plus you can create and make your own. When you have a set of
presets you want to use again, you can store them as an “Easy Setup.”
On the following pages we’ll further review the Easy Setups menu and Audio/Video
Settings Menu.
Adding and
Deleting Default
Easy Setups The actual Easy Setups that appear in Final Cut are dependent on the choices you
made when installing the AJA software. When installing, you chose the formats to
be used. If you change your mind about what was installed, you can re-run the
AJA Io
LD/LA
installer and choose different formats. However, the installers are
cumulative: when you run a different installer it adds new items to those already
there—the installer doesn’t let you delete items. You can however, delete Easy
Setups from the set installed; just go to “
Macintosh HD/Library/Application
Support/Final Cut Pro System Support/Custom Settings ” and remove the desired
items (“Macintosh HD” is your hard drive and the name may be different if
you’ve renamed it). If you do so, you’ll need to discard the Final Cut Preferences
file so that it updates its list of Easy Setups. To locate Final Cut’s preference file
and discard it, follow this procedure:
1. At the finder enter Command F (to search) and enter “Final Cut Pro”.
2. In the resulting list of files, locate the file named “Final Cut Pro 4.0
Preferences”.
Note: the path is “Macintosh HD/users/username/library/preferences/final cut
user data.”