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Thanks Jim. That’s first class info and a big help with the tension here as the time noose tightens and Encore 2 keeps spitting out Procoder encodes. We ran tests on Field based encodes from Procoder and they are accepted by Encore 2, but in our case at least they are very-very sluggish. Clicking around in the timeline causes “internal engine error”. If you put the FBE in the Encore 2 timeline and let it play it will play through. So working with the FBE is a royal PITB (pain in the butt) but way better than locking up and crashing.

The most interesting thing is we pressed on and test burned a RW DVD even with the unhappy encodes in the timeline. They work just fine once they are on the disk. No pixeled frames to be seen … so far at least. The replicator says, if it looks good on your disk burn it will do well on the DLT and glass master. Hope he’s on target. BTW … is this the same Jim as on Canopus forum? If so … thanks for both replies.

Bpete

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Ah-ha … there you go, Premiere Pro. That would work well if I were using Pro. But alas I’m an anachronism with a Canopus Storm2 and Premiere v6.5, cause Storm doesn’t play well with any of the Pro versions. I purchased Pro, but since even back then half this project was already a CAnopus proj.

See it always helps to talk to you Willie, maybe I can set up P-Pro and import the composite AVIs to do the sound work. Hmm, now I wonder if that’s gonna conflict with the Canopus/Prem v 6.5 stuff … oops subject for another post somewhere.

Thanks,
Bpete

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Thanks for the response …

I’ll give the blind mixing a try and see how I do with it. I just have a hard time judging the sound without checking it against the picture. and mixing it down and saving it back and then importing it into Premiere to see if it was tweaked just right, and over again if not, to get it right with picture, seemed like the long road. I was counting on the program’s sales pitch of video in the timeline too much I guess.

The disappearing cursor, just a program quirk then? Any work around? Sure isn’t much good when it does that as you really can’t do much decision making if you can’t see where it is, or you have to guess about where you think that sound was.

How about some settings? I really would like to know what/where the best settings are. Everyone has to set them, right? So what are you guys doing settings wise? I’m just going by what little the book said. Best settings-plz-plz-plz

Thanks
Bpete

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Hey Willie

(I’m using v1.5, a P4 2.8 with a Gig of Ram )

Thanks for the suggestion. Are you saying that it’s not unusual to loose the indicator? Even with what seems to me a light weight load on the timeline? You set your start point, you can see the indicator, you hit play, the sound plays the start point stays in place … but no moving indicator. Finally a third way across the screen the indicator appears, right in sync with what’s playing. It’s repeatable not a fluky. Always when zoomed in, sometimes when out much wider, makes it very hard to find a good edit spot. The more stuff in the session, seemingly the worse the problem.

This can’t be right, can it? Thus my question about computer power, Audition settings and such. Is there a good set of settings that generally work well? The only thing I found on a net search were for a setup from about four years ago that a guy put out there that were for a much inferior computer.

How about video in the timeline, is that working well for everyone, or does it not seem to affect the performance for others?

Thanks,
Bpete

[Bpetefla]

Think about the Gel to inverter to the DVX 110 adapter. I have it, I’ve done it and it works. I have a Dryfit Gell battery (About the size of a motorcycle or riding mower battery or slightly bigger),that I used to run my Arriflex all day long on location. So I took it along when shooting DVX outdoor interviews for the best part of the day. It stays on the cart and gets rolled around. Also I run a small sony monitor to check setup etc., off the inverter. My 2cents worth.

Bpete

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Thanks for the advice. Since last post my moccasins are getting a bit soggy. I’m doing OK mostly and just finished a 9 min piece. Went pretty well but painfully slow it seemed to get it sounding just so.

A couple of things that would help if you please would be a good solid hint on “settings” for sec., buffer and the rest of the settings. The best (only) info I’ve found to date is:
Options>Settings>System: 1 sec, 8 buffers, Min. Preview 250ms (default)
Wave Cache: 32768

However this guy was running a PIII (from a 2003 thread)

I’m having trouble playing back in Multitrack with video. The video lags and becomes jerky, occasionally the audio stutters near the end of a piece. And most distressing is the disappearing Audition … several times “poof” it’s gone. Usually while playing back. I’m running Audition on a P4 with 1gig of R ram, 7200 drives etc. Program drive is defragged and nothing else running.

Other than that I’m muddling through, albeit slowly. Maybe I’m overdoing … here’s a generalized (usually unanswerable) question, how long would you usually spend on cleaning up and EQing talking heads in semi-controlled office settings sound environment. We’ve 30 of these to go, at my rate it’ll take a month. Maybe I need to go knee deep in the pool?

Thanks for the insight,
Bpete

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If you don’t have too much content you can Double your content, sort of, and use a Flash approach for computer play. It uses Flash Projector (The menu can point to content on your DVD like video or the WWW). For set top play you can use the traditional method. They both live on the same disc. I’ve seen it done and that’s the total of what I know about it. Didn’t need to do it so I dropped it there. Hope that may help, I’m sure others know more or you can dig deeper. Of course you need a Flash player, but everyone has one of those. BTW … we’ve been using EDVD for a while and it’s working peachy, I understand the problem of installing a player but a lot of units already have the player installed.

Bpete