Question / Help Audio Sources

[Tangential]

This is a basic question and probably not mac specific but I'd appreciate some input on the best way to share one camera's audio across multiple scenes that don't always include that camera.

For a show that we stream we use several cameras but we take all of our audio from just one of them (camera1). I've got about a dozen scenes and at first I only could hear presenter audio in the scenes using camera1. When I realized what the problem was, I tried defining a separate audio source using camera1's audio input and included it in scenes that didn't use camera1. When I did that I ran into echo problems in some scenes and sync problems in the scenes that use camera1 (even though it didn't include that audio source.)

My solution right now is to just include camera1 in all scenes (typically hidden at the bottom layer.) This works but it feels like using a hammer to push in a thumbtack; overkill.

Is there a better, more typical way to do this?

 

[Narcogen]

Can you add camera 1 as an audio source without adding video?

If so, that might work (without echo) as long as you don't have camera1 selected as an audio source in the audio settings pane-- just add it as a discrete existing source to each scene you need it for?

 

[Tangential]

I can try that. My camera comes in as a Blackmagic ultra studio mini device and has no options that I can see to not have audio, but maybe I could just mute it. Then I could add it back again as a separate audio source but I’ll have to see how the sync issue is.

I’m still struggling with audio a bit. Yesterday I had a scene up that I had deliberately left presenter audio/video out of (countdown screen) but their audio came through anyway. It’s a little confusing. Sometimes I have to add them to get audio and sometimes I get their audio no matter what?