Final Cut Pro X Voiceover Issue

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Final Cut Pro X Voiceover Issue

I have a new Mac Mini, with the latest version of FCPX installed. I have a Sudotack Professional USB microphone, which the system recognizes as a USB Microphone. I am unable to record a voiceover. When I call up the voiceover option, my voice is recognized within the recording component, but when I do the countdown and start recording, no voice is recorded. It appears that the voiceover is working, but when I complete the recording only a blank, gray box appears where the recording should be.

I have checked my security settings and Final Cut Pro X is selected. I have moved the microphone from a USB 3.0 hub and connected it directly to the computer. I've tried both USB 3 ports on the Mac Mini and restarted my computer and the software several times, but I have not gotten it to work. I tried using iMovie and the voiceover functionality works perfectly. I have a month wrapped up in this project and would hate to start from scratch in iMovie. Any help you could provide would be welcome.

Mark

Mac mini 2018 or later

Posted on Oct 21, 2019 5:56 AM

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Oct 21, 2019 7:27 AM in response to strider47

Is FCP X in the list of applications allowed to access your microphone?

System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy->Microphone

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Oct 21, 2019 9:00 PM in response to strider47

Have you setup the Mac System Sound Preferences to use the microphone as an input source?

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strider47 Author

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Oct 21, 2019 8:12 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yes it is. Before posting I had found information on checking that out. FCPX was already "checked" in that location.

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 21, 2019 8:58 AM in response to strider47

Is this 10.4.7 from the App Store? What's the OS?

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strider47 Author

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Oct 21, 2019 6:12 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I’m using a new Mac Mini with Catalina 10.15 installed. I also have FCPX version 10.4.7 from the App Store

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strider47 Author

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Oct 22, 2019 5:18 AM in response to Larrie Easterly

I have an update to my original question. I saw a short Youtube video last night and the guy who made the video figured it out. He had the same issue as I did. He was working with his project and files from an external hard drive that was formatted exFAT. When he switched it over to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) the issue was fixed and he was able to record his voiceovers in FCPX.

I checked my external disk and it was formatted FAT32. This morning I re-formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), copied my project and files back to the drive, opened FCPX and attempted to create a voiceover again. This time it worked. I won't get into how messed up it is that formatting was the cause of this, but it is messed up. Thanks for all the help folks.

Mark

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Final Cut Pro X Voiceover Issue

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