[David Payne]

the two mics I have at my disposal for this are audio technika AT897 and sennheiser MK300

or I could buy a new one upon your recommendation!

[David Payne]

hi guys,

I personally have a sennheiser ME66 on board and am unsure of the model of the mic I intend to use on the table as I’d be buying one epsecially for it (borrowing one at first so can find out the type today)

but lets say i use the ME66 on a table stand, would that need any extra power? If so could you suggest a decent mic that would work on the table (directly in front of speaker, but the speaker would be stood up so mic will be about 1-1.5m away). it would never be used outside and I intend it to be passed down the table from one wedding speaker to the next so will only ever be recording one person.

Richard, thanks for your mind blowing questions!! hehe. I’m not ignoring them I’ll find out the mic I intend on borrowing as a test and get the spec of it and then come back to you.

Thanks again to both of you

[David Payne]

in an update, i find when I untick Use OpenGL hardware acceleration the issues goes away but it takes obviously far too long to export (15 hours just isnt practical…)

Have updated my graphics card driver (ATI RADEON HD 3400) but that doesnt seem to have fixed it…

[David Payne]

to answer my above question, the time to export is not the only disadvantage.. the outputted file is unwatchable.

I think the mpeg itself is fine and when I open it in canopus procorder it says its 25 fps, however when authored to a dvd in the way i usually do I get hugely jerky motion, jagged edges etc, all of the old classic problems…

I have premiere and procorder.. can anyone recommend a way of getting NTSC footage edited and outputted to a high quality PAL dvd that wont look horrid?!

[David Payne]

hmm I was just about to update as I’m a bit behind on my updates… perhaps I wont bother now?

[David Payne]

yeah I’m in pal land. Where exactly does the hassle lie as I’ve just edited in a pal timeline and the only disadvantage I can see is that its going to take 50 mins to export 4 mins of HD video where as normally it’d take about 15 mins.

Is that the only disadvantage?

In the end I negotiated a 25% refund and kept it. To be honest I’ll not edit footage shot on this camera too often, its more to film short videos and keep them on an external hard drive for tv playback, but I’m still keen to find out the problems with using NTSC footage in a PAL timeline.

Any more advice would be much appreciated

[David Payne]

for any who are interested, i imported the original HD mpeg into premiere and cut before and after the slow mo section that displayed fine. I then chose to de-interlace all of the footage before and after the clip and re exported the mpeg.

Also my dvd encoder still picked it up as having reversed fields, as they’re consistent throughout the mpeg it now plays ok on the DVD.

[David Payne]

hmmm an interesting development… there is 5 secs or so of slow motion in the affected chapter (when doing this in premiere I chose ‘field options – always deinterlace’) This part plays back fine with no jittering.

Come to think of it, the other time this has happened has been when there was slow motion in the chapter as well.

Other than re-exporting the mpeg with every clip set to always deinterlace does anyone have any ideas?

[David Payne]

Yeah I did that and the sand thing happened…

[David Payne]

Anyone have any idea? Really don’t want to use the progressive chapter and I only have a few days to finish it… 🙁