3Q’s: MPG4; 24″ Monitors; Cleanup Audio

[Jerry Waters]

1. I haven’t done that yet but Vegas 8 has mpg4 listed and it works under QT (go to Custom and video tab to select). Flash player now plays flash and mpg4, I’m pretty sure.
2. The resolution is most important to me and HD will be the thing in the future so at that price look for 1920×1080 and I hear Dell has a good one for about $700.
3. The best noise reduction I’ve found is Sony’s in Sound Forge. Sony made it a part of Sound Forge but I bought it when it cost an extra $200. The ease of using Sound Forge in Vegas is right clicking the audio track, “open copy in Sound Forge”, edit and then “save” and it comes back as a “take.” You can right click the sound and select from several takes.

I’m just a user. The experts will have better answers.

JerryW

[Rick Mac]

[John Gregoriades] “managed to do a decent job of reducing that noise using Nero Wave Editor, after figuring out how to use it. Then reinserted it on a new audio timeline with the movie and successfully rendered Video and new audio together. But I wonder if I could not have done something similar in Vegas?”

John, I am quite sure that Vegas audio toolset is every bit as capable as Nero Wave Editor. If you can tell mew what processing you did Nero, I can tell you how to replicate the process in Vegas.

If you have not found the audio tools in Vegas yet you simply click on the audio effects button for the track you would like to work on. The button is green and is on the left side of your waveform. By default there are three tools that will come up, eq, compressor, and noisegate. You can of course assign other processors.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Harold Brown]

I recommend the Gateway FHD2400. I bought mine in November and love it. Review at:
https://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2213613,00.asp

Harold
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[John Gregoriades]

Hey,
thank you all for being both prompt and most helpful.
Jerry, I don’t have soundforge because I just don’t do much audio editing. As to the DELL 24″ it does enjoy a high reputation, and I’ve seen some extensive (and believable) tests on it. See below about Gateway and Samsung.
Rick, I was using the Nero “Noise Gate” and after you mentioned it I noticed that Vegas has the same effect. The choices are bewildering! I tried Vegas noise gate on another video (Old VHS thru Sony D-Camcorder passthru to PC.) It had a similar noise, a “hum.” Try as I might I could not remove it with Vegas. I finally used Nero, discovered it had a “de-Hum” function, and a preset for 50Hz AC noise (and others.) I tried it at 60Hz without luck, but at 50Hz it did a pretty fair job. Rendered it into .wav, put it into Vegas and it’s much, much better.
Harold, I checked the Gateway, including the site you mentioned, and I agree it seems an excellent monitor, and cheaper than the others in its class. Ultimately, however, for the price of one or two gas-tankfuls more ($80 each where I’m at) the Samsung is equal to, and somewhat superior to the Dell. So I’m about to plunge!

John23GR

[Paul Del vecchio]

I have the Dell 24″ monitor.

https://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-5647

I like it. I wouldn’t use it for color grading but it’s perfect for editing,etc. For color grading, you should have a broadcast monitor anyway. The colors on this monitor are a bit warm but you can tweak them.

Paul Del Vecchio – Director
http://www.triple-e-productions.net

[Stuart Allman]

24″ monitor: I have an HP LP2465 at work and at home. It’s a professional graphics monitor hidden as a “business” monitor. The HP model has a SIPS display, as opposed to a MVA or PVA (i.e. Samsung LCD panel) like the Dell. Note that the high-end Eizo’s and LaCie’s are SIPS based. If you can’t afford a professional monitor like an Eizo, I would highly recommend the HP. I guess it really comes down to a decision based on whether or not you need your LCD for HD studio monitoring as well.

Audio: I use the Adobe Audition tools. Although I find their software to be incredibly buggy, they did a good job of providing a well rounded set of audio cleanup options. The caveat is that you need to know what you are doing with Adobe’s clean up tools. The “auto” cleanup options in this software rarely work well enough. Other people I’ve talked to use and like Sound Soap.

[Rick Mac]

[Stuart Allman] “Audio: I use the Adobe Audition tools. Although I find their software to be incredibly buggy, they did a good job of providing a well rounded set of audio cleanup options.”

I to use Audition’s for audio sweetening and it works very well. It has not been buggy for me. It is very stable and a great tool.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[John Gregoriades]

Thank you all, once again.
It’s great to “talk to,” and get help from all over the world. I’m in Greece at the moment, back to Calif next month.
Here’s another audio question:
I am transferring VCR>D-Camcorder>PC, but my VCR machine is monaural. This results in Vegas with one channel with the sound, and the second channel silent. I have no problem with monaural sound, but would like to end up with 2 channels of audio, even though they are identical. How in Vegas (or in DVD Architect) does one do that?

John23GR

[Rick Mac]

[John Gregoriades] “but my VCR machine is monaural. This results in Vegas with one channel with the sound, and the second channel silent. I have no problem with monaural sound, but would like to end up with 2 channels of audio, even though they are identical. How in Vegas (or in DVD Architect) does one do that?”

Right click on the audio waveform, dialouge box opens
select channels, another dialouge box opens. If your audio is only on the left channel, select left only. If it is on the right, select right only. This will give you one waveform, a mono track that plays back on both left and right channels.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377