[Chris Borjis]

was it just that one file from them?
or had you tried other files from other post facilities?

I think maybe they made a mistake and thought it was correct.

I have had to “educate” some of our vendors/clients about getting
these correct as they had no idea about the calm act.

For mixes we did here we had a short bout of growing pains getting them
correct out of protools at -24 settings and ended up
getting some plugin to help get them right every time.

Not only the loudness but the loudness over time
is factored in.

If I get a file that registers too hot, I just use the effect controls
volume control to subtract as little as possible db to
get it to stay above -22 for the duration then send it out
to stations. Haven’t had any rejections since.

[Chris Borjis]

[Jim McNally] “Are you finding the same file will output the same in Audition’s loudness radar too?”

I haven’t tried it, since the mix files I get from the protools guys are
pretty close if not already spot on.

It baffles me though that if it checks out in premiere, how in creation
is the audio level being boosted out of spec? I don’t get it.

I mean, are you noticing it in the audio meters in premiere too?
I always look there (i’ve become accustomed as to how they should look with calm act levels) and used to also check my betaSP VU meters
too. It seemed consistent.

This mac of mine is using a kona 3g card for audio output.

[Chris Borjis]

I haven’t done any testing, but this is what I do and have
not had any complaints from a variety of broadcasters.

I get the audio mix from one of our audio engineers who
also is making sure the output is calm act compliant.

Put that audio into the sequence, add the loudness radar,
play it out all the way.

If it doesn’t register below -22 on the reading when it’s done,
I know I’m good. If It does, I adjust the audio down slightly
until it is not going below -22.

This is using the default preset of Loudness Radar.

[Chris Borjis]

in the preferences/media you can set the media cache files & database only.

I prefer that captured files and previews follow the project folder
as it does with premiere. Things could get really messy if every project
stored the media and previews in the same exact folder.

[Chris Borjis]

if you did use prores on the mac, make sure quicktime 7.6 or later is installed on the pc.

that will enable you to read prores.

[Chris Borjis]

[Keith Betts] “How can I be assured my Adobe Encore authoring program is not re-compressing my video files?”

when you start the disc build process, it will immediately begin building
it instead of the long process of encoding. You can also set it somewhere
not to encode.

one other option to try that I have done with difficult material is
to export the video in a lossless format in SD, then run it through
media encoder for DVD.

Sometimes the resizing is better when not done in the DVD encoding stage.

I even went so far with one film to run it through my kona 3g to downconvert
it in hardware as it just would not look good being resized in compressor
or media encoder.

[Chris Borjis]

It’s likely not the authoring, unless you have it set to re-compress the content
or if it’s out of spec and forcing a re-compress.

But I use DVD Studio Pro for Authoring.

if you view the mpeg2 files in mpeg stream clip you might be seeing those lines.

Sometimes those sorts of issues are just not going to look great on DVD format.
For example, if you had DV footage with any pure red in it, because of the
lack of color sampling you will see cross hatched alias artifacts when
compressing to mpeg2 for DVD. Nothing would be able to solve that.

[Chris Borjis]

you can also copy your 23.976 sequence into a 29.97 sequence
and premiere will do the pull down if your output card
doesn’t support it.

[Chris Borjis]

That’s how we do it here, only we use CC’s built in multi-camera functions to auto sync/marry
multiple camera angles and production board audio.

Haven’t needed to buy a plural eyes license, since Adobe implemented the sound sync function.

[Chris Borjis]

I echo your complaint as well Ryan and it happens on the MAC
version as well.

Doesn’t matter what media you use, it does it for everything
audio and video.

For example, if I copy a project and maintain the file path
of original, but instead of being on my disk array root it’s
on external firewire 800 drive at it’s root, when I open it
on the drive it will re-generate all those files, even though
the first set of created ones are all there intact.