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audio monitoring – PPro 1.5
I have found that if I monitor the audio via my DV camera and headphones, the audio sounds better than using my sound card and speakers or headphones (sounds distorted). Granted my soundcard is on the motherboard. Would a sound blaster-type card provide more accurate output?
Mike
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The best way to monitor your audio output is to do what you’re doing, but connect your camera to a regular TV and monitor through the TV’s speakers. That will give you a true reflection of how your audience will hear/see what you’re doing. It’s similar to an old trick I learned when I started working with audio. After making a killer sounding mix on the amplified 1000w speaker system in the control room of the studio, I’d play back through a pair of $10 walmart car speakers to get an idea of what it’ll sound like under the worst circumstances. For audio, it usually meant cutting out some bass.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I still edit my video while outputting my audio through some nice studio speakers. But I’m using the method above. The audio/video ouputs through firewire, into my Canopus ADVC-100 and then out of that to my TV and audio board. But when I want a true idea of the actual audio, I cut the monitor speakes off the mixer and turn up the TV.
Justin
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back in the online edit bay days we monitored through a regular TV for the same reason.
No matter how I adjust my computer’s volume controls, it still sounds distorted, but the audio is in fact ok through the DV output.
Only thing is, probably because of my USB drives, the audio and video cannot both play smoothly via firewire, without rendering one or the other that is. Even though my conformed audio files are on an internal IDE drive.
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