Bret Williams
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Correct. That’s how AJA works.
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Well I told you you were not doing the right thing in exporting as uncompressed. But anyway…
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Yeah, just export to Quicktime, choose to use the current settings and make self contained. That is just giving him an exact copy of the file you are using. If you can think of a way to make your video look better by running it throuh an additional process I’d love to know, but all it’s going to do is go down a generation and become 5 times the file size.
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Funny, that’s what my Canon A70 3.2 MP digital camera shoots when you’re in movie mode! .AVI’s
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About 4db too low. The only adjustment on the FCP side would be your blackmagic card. Either a tweaker on the board/card like other audio gear, or a control panel in sys prefs, or an app that came with it to configure it, or even the gain control in FCP’s digitize tool (although most companies don’t take advantage of it and leave it ghosted out.) Could you be mixing everythiing to mono and have an out of phase cable cancelling things out.
Sure the bars are set to -12. But that’s probably for safety. They’d rather error on that end for sure. With loud tone, your dubs, etc. would come out lower because a dub house would have to lower the recording volume to match the high tone.. With low volume tone, your dubs would come out louder because the dub house would have to raise the volume.
-12 is just a number. That would only give you 12db of headroom until you have absolute clipping and distortion. Better hope any analog gear would also have the 12db of headroom. Better gear would have more headroom. Probably not a vhs deck.
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Yes. -12 is very loud for tone.
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-12 Would be pretty high for tone. If you have any peaks you’d be pushing it. Most decks come pre marked as -18 and some people play it more conservative at -20.
Does your blackmagic card have some sort of control panel that adjusts it’s calibaration? Are you sure your mixer is outputing 0?
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Except for the extra compression step of going to uncompressed quicktime. Just export a reference movie. You can’t make your footage look better by exporting to uncompressed. Although unlikely, you are still running it through yet another process. Why bother to do that?
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It’s never been any different.
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That’ll give you roughly 62 hours of storage. Go with the 85% rule and you’ve got 53 hours of footage.