Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1556)

Chapter 14 Assemble and Insert Editing Using Edit to Tape 205
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In Final Cut Pro, you can specify an audio mapping by selecting or creating a device
control preset and setting the Audio Mapping pop-up menu in the Device Control
Preset Editor to the appropriate configuration for your recording device.
Important: The Audio Mapping pop-up menu does not automatically detect the
number of audio tracks to which your video or audio recording device is capable of
recording. You need to manually choose a device control preset based on your
recording device’s capabilities.
To set up Final Cut Pro to output more than two channels of audio:
1 Choose the third-party video or audio interface you want to use for audio output in the
A/V Devices tab of the Audio/Video Settings window, then configure its options.
For more information on selecting an audio interface in the A/V Devices tab, see
Volume III, Chapter 2, “Setting Up Audio Equipment.”
2 Make sure that the audio outputs of your video or audio interface are physically
connected to the audio inputs of your video or audio recording device with the
proper cables.
3 Configure the Audio Outputs tab (found in the Sequence Settings window) of the
sequence you want to edit to tape with the number of audio channels you want to
output.
For more information on configuring the audio outputs of sequences, see Volume III,
Chapter 4, “Audio Levels, Meters, and Output Channels.”
4 Assign each audio track in your sequence to the proper output channel.
5 Choose a device control preset that contains an audio mapping with the same number
of audio channels as the video or audio deck you are going to output to.