Brent Marginet
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Why would you not have a backup of the clip(s).
Read my MOTO.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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Here’s a free calculator that can help with these calculations.
It will be a frame or two out sometimes because of how it rounds up or down the numbers but it’s a great place to start.So set it to 29.97DF and enter the show length which you stated was 24;00;00.
Now switch to Frames and then multiply this number by 24 and divide by 30 and now switch to 23.98.
The result is 23:58:12.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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Hi Peter I solved the problem.
There’s still something weird as I will explain below.My Sequence was setup as a DNxHD Sequence because all of the files that were coming in were supposed to be DNxHD.
Now the first three that came in were ProRes and because I was going to be dropping up to 8 to 10 Videos in a Timeline, some being ProRes but most being DNxHD I naturally made a DNxHD Sequence. I ended up making a ProRes Sequence for the heck of it and the problem went away with these ProRes Files. I’ve Transcoded the three short ProRes files to DNxHD and now I can drop all of these Videos into a DNxHD Timeline with no issues.
I don’t quite get why dropping a ProRes Video into a DNxHD Sequence causes the Audio Track Allocations to get screwed up though and I hope that there aren’t to many more ProRes Files. Some of them are two hours long and I really don’t want to Transcode Videos that are that long if I can help it. I’ve received 21 Videos so far and only three are ProRes so I’m crossing my fingers hoping that all the rest will be DNxHD.
Very weird anyway.
Thanks for your help.
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Yes I can send you a project and a sample video.
Now things have gotten worse because I thought okay I will take the project and open it on my laptop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bad, stupid idea because now it’s doing the same thing on my Laptop.
Even worse it now effects new projects and sequences that I create from scratch on this Laptop.
My install of PP worked perfectly until I opened this project on it and now it’s unusable as well.
Whatever the issue is it’s in the project and it’s now corrupted PP on my Laptop, this makes no sense.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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[Brent Marginet] “If you give them an L, R, C, LFE, LS, RS Mix then make sure to pull down the L, R, LS and RS each by 3db or there cumulative levels will make them 6db hot. That would make the Left and Right twice the required volume and could drown the Dialogue channel out somewhat.”
Actually this was incorrect.
The L, R, LS and RS would need to be pulled down by 3db and the Centre would need to be boosted by 6db.In the end this will likely cause level issues no matter what and some Theatres have slight delays in the LS and RS channels so that will cause other issues. As you stated earlier you are not able to make a true 5.1 Mix so stay away from it altogether.
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Send them both a Stereo and your Sudo 2.0 Mix.
You will however need to take the Centre (Dialogue Channel) and boost it by 6db.If it were a Stereo Mix both the Left and Right would have the Dialogue at the same Level.
The identical portion of the audio combined from two speakers will give you a 6db boost in the perceptual level.
Now if it’s being played from one speaker you will need to boost it by 6db to give it the same perceptual level as the two speakers in the Stereo Mix.Do a test, play tone out of one speaker at -20db then play back the tone from two speakers at -20db.
You will notice that the additive level of these identical signals is substantially louder. (i.e. 6db hotter or twice the volume)
Now compare playback of the tone at -20 from from both speakers and -14db from just one.
You will notice that the level seems identical.
This is all part of the laws of audio levels and the cumulative effect of identical signals.
Just do some searches on the db scale and you will see what I mean.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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Give them a Left – Centre – Right with the Left and Right at full levels.
If you give them an L, R, C, LFE, LS, RS Mix then make sure to pull down the L, R, LS and RS each by 3db or there cumulative levels will make them 6db hot. That would make the Left and Right twice the required volume and could drown the Dialogue channel out somewhat. As for the LFE just leave it blank.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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I’m not going away until someone can figure this out for me.
One and only one system has this issue and it’s the most important one.
I absolutely cannot rebuild my system at the moment (to many Avid/Resolve projects going on) but I need this working.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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5.1 and Stereo are two completely different and independent mixes.
Left Front should contain at least – Left Music, Effects, Foley and some Dialogue.
Right Front should contain at least – Right Music, Effects, Foley and some Dialogue.
Centre is primarily Dialogue but can contain other audio elements.
LFE is the Sub Woofer Channel which is generally anything below about 120hz.
Left Surround should contain at least – Left Music, Effects, Foley and some Dialogue.
Right Surround should contain at least – Right Music, Effects, Foley and some Dialogue.This should be properly mixed as a separate session and the idea with 5.1 is that if something is moving across the screen it moves across the speakers. Dialogue and say a plane going over head will move around the room.
My point, they will likely reject what you are trying to send them and would prefer a Stereo Mix over some Jerry Rigged 5.1 mix.
A Stereo Mix split up like this hardly makes it a 5.1 Mix.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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Zipping Video files will never shrink them much and is not a good idea.
Are you Zipping them for archival purposes, if so archive them exactly as they are.
If you compress them to H.264’s and need them later on you will be working with degraded versions of the originals.\”MY MEDIA/PROJECT MOTO: If you think three copies of your media or project are enough.
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