[Bradley Greenwell]

can you refer me to an audio professional?

thanks

brad

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Thanks Shane, you’ve helped out a lot.

I appreciate it

Thanks

p.s. will this theoretically sound better, you think?

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Thanks for the response Shane.

Its for PBS, and yes its all within FCP.

From what I understand. Export video separately, export voice on 1/2 tracks separately, export music and fx separately. import all into FCP and lay them on top of each other and do a final export of everything.

I’m curious how you do it.

You cut a show together with no music or balancing of voices, send it off to your audio guy and he delivers you the tracks in perfect balanced audio in which you put back into your timeline. Is that it?

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

I appreciate the response.

What if a sound facility is not in the budget. Is there a slightly better way to do it then mixing everything into 2 tracks?

The way I do the program now is, I deliver them a DVCPRO HD file on a hard drive. They down convert the show to SD and broadcast the dvc pro tape in which it was down converted to. If I deliver them a file with 4 audio tracks, 1/2 being voice and 3/4 being music and fx will that better the overall sound. Or would it be pretty much the same with just the overall mix into 2 tracks?

I appreciate this conversation

thanks

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Hi Jason,

I hope I’m not to late in responding to your solutions.

A few questions arise with these 2 solutions.

I don’t have an HD Cam deck. If I had the MXO2 hardware installed and got the caption file, I’d still need a deck right? Or could that MXO2 file be converted through an Avid and then dumped to HD Cam tape. I’m asking this, because the station I work with has the HD Cam deck and Avid software.

Is there a work flow to send out for captioning via email or ftp, get the file back, then lay into FCP, export a MOV file, ingest into an Avid, and then export to HD Cam having the captioning.

Thanks Jason

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Thanks for the response Chris.

What would be another option for a mastered tape, that does have cc on line 21.

Also, do you know of a inexpensive CC company, that does this kind of work flow?

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Hi Shane

I’m not looking for any quick fix on audio. I spend just as much time if not more on the audio. I just wanted to make sure I was not missing something that might make my audio even better.

I am not making a FCP quicktime self contained file. I’m exporting through compressor to give me a MOV file, which comes out to about 25 gigs a show. And the reason for this is it gives me less glitches than a quicktime conversion out of fcp.

the station does not have FCP.

I just want to make sure my workflow is giving me the best quality possible.

My end file, 25 gigs, DVCPRO HD going to sonyHD tape. Is there anything I’m missing as far as making this file better.

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Hi Shane,

The show is edited and output in HD as a digital file. When the station gets the DVCPRO HD MOV file they load it in the Avid Adrenaline and downconvert to SD via hardware for broadcast. I’m unclear on how they import the show in the Avid.

Now it has come time with this season to make SonyHD tapes for distribution which are the same shows that have already been broadcast in SD. SO my plan is to give them the shows on a drive all in DVCPRO HD 1080i60 format and have them dump it to Sony HD tape through there Avid Adrenaline. I’m assuming they have the proper codecs, just because all the previous SD shows have aired.

I just want to make sure its not being over compressed, would it be better for me to rent a sonyHD deck and output myself?

When you said NO NO NO DNXHD conversion are saying just in FCP, or in general?

The audio mixdown I was referring to is actually “audio normalization” in the modify tab. Is that something that might benefit the over all audio?

I don’t have the proper hardware to do this from my editing bay thats why I hand off to the station.

Bradley J.

[Bradley Greenwell]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for responding.

I have the Avid codecs installed. I tried changing my compressor in the sequence setting to Dnx HD and it looked horrible. Then I tried it when I ran it through compressor and it looked sharp but the station said they couldnt read it.

Ive been giving them the DVCPro HD codec shows for the last 10 weeks. They say they bring it in and transcode it to DNXHD, and downconvert to SD upon output to DVC Pro. So from what it sounds like, this is an ok method?

If you dont mind I’d like to ask you another question. In FCP when the timieline is complete and you have all the voice, sound effects, music, do you recommend a mixdown, and if so, how much? And what audio setting do you recommend in the compressor settings. This is for broadcast.

Thanks

Bradley J.