Mastering to digibeta using sdi question

[Bill Kelly]

It really depends on what whomever is receiving the final product wants on the tape.

Generally, the standard deliverable I’ve always worked with (unless specified otherwise) is:

Ch. 1 & 2 Full Stereo Mix
Ch. 3 & 4 M&E

Sometimes clients will want Full Mix minus VO (also referred to as Mix Minus) on Channels 3 & 4, but they will usually specify that. That’s basically your M&E and SOT channels combined, everything except voiceover. Hope this helps.

[Bill Kelly]

Actually disregard that previous answer. I totally misread your question.

First, the best thing to do is make audio stems of each separate audio channel that you’re going to output (for example, your VO track(s)). Go to the beginning of your timeline, set an In point, then go to the end and set an Out point. Mute everything other than VO, File>>Export as AIFF. Bring that into your browser. Do the same thing for full mix, and so on.

When you have all your audio stems, duplicate your sequence (just to be safe), mute or delete all your existing audio tracks, and insert your full mix stem, vo stem, and the rest at the beginning of your timeline. Play parts of your timeline to make sure everything is in sync.

Make sure your sequence is set for 4 channel output (Sequence Settings>>Audio Outputs). Then right click/cmd-click over by the little lock near your A1, A2, etc. audio tabs right on the edge of the timeline. A little popup menu will appear and you’ll find that you can assign each audio track to a specific channel. Simply assign the tracks to the channel you need them to output.

Then, when you Edit To Tape, make sure in the little box in the lower right corner that you have all channels selected. Good luck!

[Emmet Reddy]

Thanks a lot Bill thats very helpful.
Emmet

[Baz Leffler]

[Bill Kelly] “Sometimes clients will want Full Mix minus VO (also referred to as Mix Minus) on Channels 3 & 4,”

Just to add to that the normal requirement is the M&E to be ‘undipped’. But also be aware that many broadcasters also want digital 8 track split outs as well; also undipped.

Baz

What would I do without the ‘UNDO’ button!!!!

[Bill Kelly]

[Baz Leffler] “Just to add to that the normal requirement is the M&E to be ‘undipped’.”

True. Forgot to mention that!