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Audio Settings with Tone?
Sorry for this silly question. We have been working with our M100 system until the editing drives went down…so, I had to use our FCP system…which by-the-way I like better…anyway I’m confused on the bars&tone setting. I notice when I set my tone from our betaSP machine before digitizing they read at -16 or -17 in FCP. Well, as I started to digitize some interviews I noticed that the audio levels looked very low in FCP but not on the tape…My question is when I set up my timeline to master back to betaSP, what level do I need to set my bars&tone at on my time line and at what level would be ok (ok meaning not peaking) for my interview audio levels? I know….silly question.
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-12. Digitize to -12 and output to -12.
Scott
OSX 10.5.5
Quad 2.5Ghz
8.5 GB RAM
Final Cut Studio 6.0.4
HPX 2000 -
FCP defaults to 0 vu dbm = -12 dbfs
Sony machines default to 0 vu dbm = -20 dbfs
Not sure what capture/output card you are using but on our systems we set tone to -20. This corresponds to 0 vu dbm on the Sony machines BSP, dBeta and HDCam.
Most broadcast facilities/Networks will kick back anything over -10 dbfs on tapeDoug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN
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