Baz Leffler
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[walter biscardi] “Get a nice HP Workstation with a BluRay Burner ($1,500 last year with Vista)”
Makes for a whole new advertising campaign Apple vs PC.
I can see Mr Apple and Mr PC exchanging quips still but standing on the other side of Mr Apple is a stunted Mr PC to help Mr Apple beat Mr PC…. oh the humour of it all
Baz
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Bob – if you changed and became a ‘nice’ guy they could name a country after you and call it, maybe… New Zelin?
Baz
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[Andrew Kimery] “You could always just not respond Walter. ;)”
Has anyone ever noticed that when ever an “Apple rumour” post is made here the same people chime in and discredit it? Many of those people have their picture at the top of the FCP forum….
Well maybe, just maybe these folk DO know whats going on and when people post close to the mark the best form of defence is attack.
Why do I say these things? Well because that’s what I use to do when I was on a beta team and that’s what we were asked to do. Yep… so y’all make your own minds up eh!Baz
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[Nick Griffin] “Most of Europe is PAL, but some countries are SECAM”
My understanding was that France and USSR were Secam but are now PAL but transmit in PAL and Secam; but their studio’s are definitely PAL (if not HD)
Baz
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[maurice jansen] “all our Digidecks have there reference tone to -18dBFS
i guess it’s part of the EBU audio package”Interesting… I am using PAL decks here in Australia which I thought would have come under the ‘EBU’ banner….. I shall do some more research…
Baz
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[Bob Zelin] “you STILL have not told us exactly what piece of equipment you are refering to”
Sorry I thought I did mention “Steinberg’s Nuendo”, “Motu digital interfaces”, “Analog VU”, “AES digital VU”, “Digibetacam” and later I mentioned “HDCAM”. Do you need me to mention the brand names/model numbers? Incidently my audio post suite uses a totally digital path which includes SDI, AES and TDIF.
[Bob Zelin] “I thought that both of us gave excellent detailed examples.”
Yes you both did and I do believe I thanked you for it.
[Bob Zelin] “The UVW-1800 meters are NOT ACCURATE”
I do not have a UVW-1800 so that is no concern to me.
[Bob Zelin] “Does this confuse you, or do you understand and accept this.”
Yes I understand and that is why when refering to the digibeta and HDCAM decks I always use the audio level meters set to MAX where the scale becomes +/- 2dB.
[Bob Zelin] “If you would simply say EXACTLY what kind of equipment you are refering to (where is your VU meter)”
My audio post suite has Multiple PPM and VU meters – my audio program (Nuendo) has PPM, I have a digital audio desk with analog group outs feeding large Tascam analog VU’s and also feeding AES (digital) PPM VU’s. The audio desk itself has digital meters (useless for accutate reading) as do my Tascam DA98 decks.
[Bob Zelin] “exactly WHO is telling you that your tone should be set to -18”
This from my deliverables contract –
“AUDIO LEVELS:
If the audio levels for the master tapes are measured in the analogue domain then the audio reference level for all the four Channels must be -11 dB. The Maximum overall programme peak level is 0 db full scale.
If the audio levels for the master tapes are measured in the digital domain then the audio reference level for all the four Channels must be -18 dB. “[Bob Zelin] “Panasonic was making a DAT machine called the SV3700”
I have a SV3800 in my audio suite so I am very familiar with the machine. I do not use its metering for anything accurate.
[Bob Zelin] “what are you talking about. Video is more confusing than ever now”
Once a specification for video is required in the deliverables contract it is locked in but not necessarily so for audio – thus my ‘gray area’ comment.
But I did fail to mention the fact for video the max white is 100% and should never be exceeded in a master tape otherwise the ‘gamut’ monster will come and get you. But most camera’s tend to set their clippers to about 105% and this has been the case way back to the old analog days but that is for another discussion.Baz
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Thanks guys – All this info is valuable and seems to be where I am at but it still doesn’t explain how a VU can’t see 10db of variations that the PPM meter see’s.
Another ‘baffler’ is the built in tone generators of my Digibeta and HDCAM decks are set to -20 but I am constantly told my tone should be set at -18. Shouldn’t someone tell Sony? (please don’t tell me there is a menu item for that…)
Someone once told me that video was the most complicated part of television production but I now know that not to be true. While the ‘video’ has the color, ‘audio’ has the “gray area”.
Baz
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[Steve Herring] “Just curious Baz, but does this mean that you have a Multibridge Eclipse with the latest drivers running with “Edit to Tape” in FCP working just fine for you? What deck(s) do you output to most frequently? We have two Sony HDCam SRW-5500’s and a Panasonic AJ-HD1400.”
Hey Steve – I have the Multibridge Eclispe connected to a PC running Premiere CS4.
I did have it connected to a Octocore MacPro but not with the latest drivers. I have a Multibridge Extreme on the Mac system now with the latest drivers and no problems given that the drivers are the same for both boxes.
I connect them to our HDW1800 HDCAM decks but I have to be careful sometimes with the reference the deck is receiving and can get similar result to what you report if the deck locks to incoming SDI (the multibridge) and the Multibridge has the capture window open connected to the deck (they are trying to lock to each other).
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[Ernesto Crvalo] “Premiere Pro will be once and for all discontinued”
What will happen to Bollywood then? Will they have to use a REAL editing tool?
[Ernesto Crvalo] “the Red camera now have its price reduced”
And on the subject of the Red camera, I have it on good authority they will be releasing a camera specifically for the porn maket called …. wait for it!….. “The Blue” camera.
Baz
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[Mike Jackson] “I remember seeing that rig fall out of a helicopter.”
Hey Jacko good to see you here on the cow! Was it me that also fell from the helicopter? I do remember Rod Finlayson falling from the sky in a Cessna and he kept shooting all the way down – but that was a betacam wasn’t it? I do remember putting the TK and the 50 with a car battery in a hot air balloon and letting it drift; just can’t remember who the cameraman was…. haven’t seen him since.
[Mike Jackson] “Can we get to gether and have a mens cordial and talk ex3 and Nano flash stuff”
I just got your email and will reply there about that but its on my MUST DO LIST!!!! You know I do love a drink and talking technology….
Baz
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