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Moderator, please redirect this if necessary.
I recently captured a series of interviews from the net and, as usual, I used QuickTime Player to capture them, and I just depended on the built-in speakers and microphones to pick up the sound. Doing it that way has been "good enough" in the past, but this time all that talking yielded unacceptably low-quality sound, so I thought I’d experiment with something else.
My iMac has audio ports for earphone output and for mic input. Plugging in for earphone output shuts off the built-in speakers, as expected. Plugging in for mic input (and selecting "Line in" for sound input) sounded reasonable to me, and I thought that jumpering the two ports with a single cable would send the earphone output to the sound input and I’d be home free with higher quality.
I was wrong. No sound got recorded. I didn’t care because it was just Trump bellowing about something. I did care because my idea didn’t work.
Can someone tell me what I did wrong?
I recently captured a series of interviews from the net and, as usual, I used QuickTime Player to capture them, and I just depended on the built-in speakers and microphones to pick up the sound. Doing it that way has been "good enough" in the past, but this time all that talking yielded unacceptably low-quality sound, so I thought I’d experiment with something else.
My iMac has audio ports for earphone output and for mic input. Plugging in for earphone output shuts off the built-in speakers, as expected. Plugging in for mic input (and selecting "Line in" for sound input) sounded reasonable to me, and I thought that jumpering the two ports with a single cable would send the earphone output to the sound input and I’d be home free with higher quality.
I was wrong. No sound got recorded. I didn’t care because it was just Trump bellowing about something. I did care because my idea didn’t work.
Can someone tell me what I did wrong?