Angelo Lorenzo
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[Travis Brown] “When using the Fill Left effect, does this mean it’s not true stereo? When I play it back on my computer with stereo speakers, the dialogue does come through but sounds a bit different”
It’s still a stereo signal in that you’re listening to two independent tracks that can be manipulated, they just both contain the same source audio.
[Travis Brown] “On that same note, it sounds like you’re saying that the 1/8″ TS adapter will likely record in Mono, and if so I’ll have to change the settings in Premiere to split Mono into Stereo, right?”
Kind of. Your camera will eventually be fed a true mono signal. You maybe be able to set your camera to record “mono as stereo” which will duplicate the mono channel automatically without introducing phase error, much like you’re doing in Premiere now.
If it doesn’t have that option then you can record with your camera set to mono. Premiere, if you have a stereo master track will just duplicate the mono track as you play it out anyways.
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No, just apply one of the two fill effects. You don’t need to duplicate any tracking on the timeline.
Fill left will clone the contents of left channel non-destructively into the right and fill right will do the opposite.
These are also useful to fill in the other side of a stereo track where you may have only been recording mono and the other track is silent.
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Don’t pan. In the audio effects you’ll find “fill right” and “fill left”. These effects, when applied, will clone one of the stereo channels to the other. This should make each channel in phase because it’s the exact same thing.
If it fixes the issue on a mono speaker then you’re dealing with some kind of phase delay. If it doesn’t fix the issue then it’s some mixing/eq issue.
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Stereo phase issues aren’t apparent in stereo headphones. Stereo phase cancellation happens when the sound waves physically run into each other; stereo headphones isolate the stereo signal because they pump sound directly into your ears. One of the disadvantages of not checking your mix outside of headphones. You can, however, hear phase issues between mixed tracks but that isn’t what you’re looking at if you just isolate the camera audio.
What model mic are you using and what plug type does it use? If it’s XLR then that is inherently mono.
If it’s 1/8″ then it’s mono if it has one stripe and stereo if it has two stripes on the tip. Don’t be fooled that stereo means a stereo mic, as it’s probably just bridging the ring and tip to feed the same signal (makes it more “user friendly”)
Again, I would check the issue using fill left or fill right so I know I have the exact same signal in both channels.
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Are the cuts matching in terms of length but using the wrong portions of video, like a slip edit happened? You may have the wrong timecode interpretation settings between exporting an EDL to re-interpreting it within Redcine-X. At worst, your intermediates may not match your original footage in terms of timecode. If the latter is the issue, it’s basically a manual relink and reedit – not pretty.
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Sounds like a mixing issue, not a phase issue, but it’s easy to test.
The shotgun mic is, most likely, mono so the camera is probably feeding both channels the same signal. If you’re using headphones, you won’t notice phase issues. If you play it back on stereo speakers, they should phase out and you’ll hear noticeable drops in volume. If there is a phase problem, just clone one channel using the fill left or fill right effect.
I think it’s more of a mixing issue. Make sure you have enough of a volume difference between background and sound fx against dialog. If you’re mixing really close in volume, you may find that cheap speakers (not necessarily mono) have difficulty reproducing the spectrum of frequencies at near the same volume. You could also scoop some frequencies in the background to carve a hole for vocals like 800Hz-3kHz.
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Ivan is correct. If you’re using more generic tools I would lean more towards benchmarking sequential read and write. Video and audio files are much larger in comparison to, say, many small random photos/documents.
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FCP7 does handle RED media https://www.red.com/downloads/5086c46b17ef0223980000b3
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1) Simplify your project to be EDL safe (one major lane of video)
2) Export an EDL
3) Open Redcine X and go to file>import
4) Select your R3D folders and hit import
5) Select your EDL
6) Redcine X will now create a conformed sequence. Go to File > Export and export as Final Cut 7
7) Import and relink into Premiere, QC against your intermediate timeline.
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You’ll notice I preface the entire test with that point. I think the greatest take away is that there is some deficiency with DNxHD, whether it be purely compression or heavy pre-filtering) that causes it to degrade so severely.
Perhaps a follow up is in order with some 1 or 2 rounds of compression. It would be interesting to see how, say, ProRes performs against Cineform when it comes to green screen keying as Cineform appears to be less blocky overall.
Again, an informal test but there is still interesting take-aways.
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