Question / Help Master Audio from a camera source

[SwampDonkey]

My first post here and couldn't find answer in a search.

I have 2 cameras and 2 SDI inputs.

I send audio from a sound desk to an XLR input on camera 1.
Camera 2 is video only.

I set Camera 1 scene to bring in video and audio via SDI 1.
If I set Camera 2 scene to bring video from SDI 2 with audio from SDI 1.

With this configuration the audio is not clean when switching. You can see and hear the audio cross-fade between scenes.

To work around this I made a copy of Scene 1 Camera 1 but stacked Camera 2 on a layer above it.

This workaround gives me constant clean audio from Camera 1 at all times and can be used with 3/4 cam's etc which is great.

My question is - is it possible to make a common audio input for several scenes (Cameras) that doesn't try to cross-fade when switching?

The workaround is fine but if there's a better (correct?) method I would prefer to do things differently.

I don't want a common input for all scenes because when playing out video clips the audio from the media is required instead of SDI 1.

Thanks a lot.

 

[Harnackj]

Did you figure it out? Tell me how. I’m using a black
Magic device and my camera is the only audio source. Now I want to transition to a different scene but when I do I lose the audio. Thanks

 

[carlmmii]

Ideally you should have your audio on a separate audio input source. Depending on the type of capture device you use, you may have a specific audio device in windows dedicated to this, otherwise it is tied to the camera capture.

In the case where you have a dedicated audio device, all you need to do is add that as an audio input source for each scene you want to include it in.

For the case where it is tied to the camera capture source, the only reliable way is to have the camera included in every scene that you need the audio, but hide the video in the scenes that don't need it.