Capture audio cassette

[ajcvideo]

I have Edius 5.12 without HD Storm Bay. How would one capture analog audio cassette tapes into Edius? I tried feeding cassette player into a digital deck and then firewire into system but no luck.

[antonsvideo]

use the analogue audio inputs from the cassette player and click audio capture (not video capture)

a stable video signal needs to be present for audio capture to become active, camera with less cap on will do

if you don't have an audio capture button, you can add it by customizing the player buttons

[John Hooper]

When you say you have fed the audio into a digital deck, but no luck with Firewire, do you mean trying a pass thru?

To get the input to work in this way I suspect that a video signal is necessary. If you try recording the audio on to a tape so that it records a blank video but with audio, you should then be able to capture this in Edius.

Not an elegant way to do it, but it should work.

Can you not record the audio cassette to the PC as a WAV file using the line input of the audio card and a program like Audacity or even Windows recorder?


Then just import the audio file.


UPDATE:

Just seen that Anton had beaten me to a reply.

[ajcvideo]

use the analogue audio inputs from the cassette player and click audio capture (not video capture)

a stable video signal needs to be present for audio capture to become active, camera with less cap on will do

if you don't have an audio capture button, you can add it by customizing the player buttons

Anton,

I do not have a video input. All I have is firewire or e-sata. Maybe I can use line input on the back of the PC?

[ajcvideo]

Can you not record the audio cassette to the PC as a WAV file using the line input of the audio card and a program like Audacity or even Windows recorder?

John,

I will give that a try.

[antonsvideo]

Anton,

I do not have a video input. All I have is firewire or e-sata. Maybe I can use line input on the back of the PC?

I misread your original post and assumed you have the bay

[Ron Evans]

I have Edius 5.12 without HD Storm Bay. How would one capture analog audio cassette tapes into Edius? I tried feeding cassette player into a digital deck and then firewire into system but no luck.

Why don't you just use Sound Recorder in Windows and then bring the WAV file into Edius. Just connect up to the "line in" on the sound card or motherboard, select music( to get highest data rate). Sound Recorder is under accessories>entertainment.
I record audio into Sound Forge then bring into Edius.

Ron Evans

[dpalomaki]

As noted above, recording the audio via the sound card in the PC is probably the fastest and simplest method.

But be aware that typical analog cassette records/players do not have a precise time base and you may encounter variation in timing of the audio, especially if recorded on one machine and played on another. This could be an issue if you are trying to do accurate sound sync (e.g., maintain lip sync), especially on longer recordings.

[Bob Foster]

My quick method is to plug a cassette deck's headphone out into the computer's mic/line input. You'll need to get the right patch cord or adapters. You should be able to use the EDIUS voice over tool to set a level and record. You may need line pads if you come out of the cassette decks RCA phono jacks. I've been using a garage band xlr - 1/8 inch cable to plug in micropones for direct audio recording to an editing laptop for location/news work.