Chris Wright
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try exporting to another format like dnxhd.
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afaik, the recording level is usually bounded by two things, noise floor and dynamic range.
Noise floor is always there, its just at a lower volume so you don’t normally hear it.
If the native noise floor of a recorder is -80db and the mic noise floor is -60, then your final noise floor is actually the poorest thing in the audio chain; in this case, the mic at -60db.
When do you start hearing hiss then? Some mics need phantom power and a lot of it to get above the noise floor. Other plugin
power mics need a strong signal to get above the noise floor. All of this is very relative. That is why you can’t record something far away and simply turn up the gain.The other extreme is distortion or voltage levels outside the parameters of either the mic or the recorder. In the digital
world, its a hard limit. analog can push a little past 0db.So, the best way to answer your other question is that ‘normally’ the human voice has a certain dynamic range when it whispers, talk normally, and yells. -23db RMS is a good place to start because it lets a person talk both softly and loud without having to compress/limit or clip the audio which is probably what happened to your -10 recording). An added bonus is that the normal talking will usually automatically top out around -12/-10db making post a cince as youtube is -16LUFS and theatres are -23LUFS, all your audio will already be close to the target and be the right volume when you sit in the chair.
There’s some sound devices that can analog limit though. So, you may be wondering, “why don’t I just record everything at -1db and let my sound devices soft limit for me?” The answer is, beyond a certain ratio like 4:1, voices will sound unnatural. I don’t go beyond 4:1 sfx and 2:1 dialogue personally but your mileage may vary. People’s ears get tired when dynamic range is too large in a 2 hour movie. Perhaps you’ve noticed this in some independant films.
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in resolve, is fcp legacy checked?
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you can view vlc’s codec properties to get video codec info.
you can try mpc-hc video player. its internal filter-video settings has a 0-255 setting.
you can also try ‘codec tweak tool’ if the wrong one is used. windows uses a merit based system to decide what codec to use.when I played your file in vlc, it said apple quicktime RLE video.
mpc-hc player said ‘original apple specs’ ‘format:RLE codec ID rle’ -
you must have a 3rd party video decoder from librafilter or something that’s hijacking the decode.
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just crank up the recording level on the mic on your computer and record in audition and show you’re clipping. jk. anyways, the only way to do this is to prove the distance from a SPL sound meter is father than 10 ft away or something.
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you need to post the DPX file so we can test if the DPX is good. EXR is perfect, so you have a catastrophic color failure somewhere.
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I tested both AE(no color management) and vlc(opengl) before exporting, both exact same pixels.
I tested all 3 types of alpha mattes, premultiplied, straight, none. all same pixels.
I encoded h.264 with AME, same pixels.
I imported the AME h.264 back into AE, same pixels.
I imported the quicktime h.264 back into AE, same pixels.
I opened the quicktime h.264 into VLC opengl, same pixels
I opened the AME h.264 in VLC opengl, same pixels.I also double checked all colors with a pixelsampler down to the RGB pixel code. same pixels.
So you have a wonky setting somewhere.
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does it show with EXR?
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strange…
can you post a 1 sec. lossless mov file out of animate cc? I will then export from AE and check in VLC.