No Audio when importing to FCP

Yes, this seems to be part of the problem - there wasn't a continuous time code on the first tape I was importing.

The cure seems to be a combination of the comments on here plus a camera setting - when I switched to 12 bit sound - away from 16 bit sound I can import successfully

The problem has got even more stronge - I managed to fool, what ever the impediment is, by starting the tape to be uploaded before hitting 'import', whereupon it was able to play the picture with full sound in the import window - but failed to upload it... so it can interpret the video and sound together - just not import it with the sound... Puzzled. Perhaps it is time to buy a rival product.

I'll have a look for that in the morning. Thanks for the suggestion.

I have managed to import another tape from the same source, so it looks though, either I have cracked it somehow, or there is something odd with the tape that is failing - again more investigation in the morning . Its half past midnight here.

Problem is now solved - a combination of the points you raised plus by altering the audio capture on the tape to 12 bit from 16 bit means I was able to import successfully - why the first 14 minutes of tape worked before any changes I made remains the mystery.

Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the reply - I did have it installed but I removed it before restarting my iMac.

I don't seem to be able to do that - it knows the camera is there but I can't seem to find a way of uploading anything from it using Quick time.

Yes, I think that is so, it is odd that the audio can be lost on import, depending from where the import is started on the tape it seems. Thanks for your help. Nick.

A further test shows that switching to 16 bit on the camera prevents the import to FCP from picking up the sound. Sad really because the sound quality is not as good as the original.