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Help! Print To Tape – Audio Sample Rate Issue
Hey all,
I really need help and I need it by the morning *gulp*. We are shooting DV Pal Anamorphic, 48khz 16 bit sound. Capturing and printing to tape was fine the other day. Now, using the exact same project I thought I’d double check and I printed to tape, and noticed the audio bar was jumped right the way up. So I recaptured it, upon this I got this message:
‘the audio sample rate of one or more of your captured media files does not match the sample rate on your source tape. This may cause the video and audio of these media files to be out of sync. Make sure the audio sample rate of your capture preset matches the sample rate of your tape.’
I have tried everything I can think of but every time I print to tape the sound is out of synch and very tinny, if there at all! Yet if I capture any stuff I shot BEFORE today it is fine, it’s only the stuff I am printing to tape today that has botched sound.
What could be causing this?
I thought it might be my firewire cable being faulty, but if that is taking in older sound fine then it wouldn’t be having problems putting out new stuff!
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Gary
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3 Replies
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It sounds as if the tape was shot at 32k. On most consumer cameras if the little NiCad battery dies and you change the camera battery the camera will reset to the default state. On consumer cameras that 32k audio. The message you get appears usually when you’re capturing 32k audio with a 48k preset.
All the best,
Tom
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Cheers for the response Tom.
Well first off all of a sudden it’s working fine again and I literally did nothing. This worries the hell out of me because I hate not knowing what caused it, knowing it could pop up again tomorrow when I’m on a job.
You could be right but as I said I was literally playing with the same footage I was using the other day, and the other day it went in and out fine. In fact it came in fine today as well, it was just when I printed to top that it fell to pieces.
Is there anything else that could cause this?
Much appreciated,
Gary
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p.s. I really should’ve made clear that I’m both capturing and printing using a Sony A/V deck.
Cheers.
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