David Roth weiss
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[Wayne Carey] “So, PCs are perfect for math like Excel and complex games, but video has to be done on a Mac.”
Rubbish!!! Wayne, there are many, many people working on PCs in this field. In fact, there are many more on PCs than on MACs. There are excellent tools on both platforms that are in many cases very much platform specific. If you walk into ILM, Blur Studios, Digital Domaine, or any other major players, you will find both MACs and PCs all over the place, with pros using the very best tools they have for each specific task they need to accomplish.
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Louis,
The noise reduction tools in Soundtrack Pro are pretty cool, easy to use, and they work well. Do the tutorials and you will learn very simple techniques that help you clean up your tracks up quite nicely. I’ve used the most expensive tools available in the past, and I’m amazed at just how good the tools in STP really work.
As Matte said, much of the location audio recorded for film and TV is replaced using ADR, often referred to as “looping.” However, there are many things that are done in post sweetening to improve audio using tools that you have already, or can easily add to your arsenal.
The most important thing to wrap your head around is compressing the voice tracks. This is very different from the type of compression we now think of, such as MPEG2 compression. Compressing the voice tracks squeezes them into specific frequency ranges that tend make dialogue sound clearer, as well giving perceived separation from the frequencies of music and sound effects so that voice doesn’t seem to compete against them. This is why a professional mix is able to deliver music and effects at relatively high levels, while dialogue and V.O. are still clear, crisp, and audible.
I have not yet used the various compression filters in FCP and STP, but I’m certain that you can get very good guidance about those specific tools on the STP forum.
DRW
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They are all compressed actually, but 8bit and 10 bit are referred to as uncompressed. DVCPro 1000 while farily highly compressed vs. the so-called uncompressed codecs, is considered to be one the best intermediate codec available, with minimal artifacts, excellent resolution, definition, and color.
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I’m more of a film and video person, so I’ll leave that one to the computer geeks…
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Motion is the real memory hog — throw RAM at it if you have some spare Euros sitting around. However, tests have shown that 2.5gb of RAM is the golden spot for everything else (FCP) — meaning that there are some benefits to going above 2.5 to 4 or 6gb, but those benefits are relatively small and not worth the extra expense in most cases when looking from the standpoint of cost/benefit analysis.
DRW
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Well Tom, we’re both actually corect on this one. You’re assuming playback on traditional NTSC equipment (CRT from tape or from the timeline) at 1/60th of second, while I am assuming playback from DVD on a monitor with fixed pixel display, capable of displaying true progressive frames at 1/30th of a second. The original post did say that DVD was his goal… So, I think we’re both right… Yes???
DRW
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No need to recapture. Your best bet is to convert the native files to DVCPro 100 HD. Its a good looking codec, universally considered to be better than Apple Intermediate, and it takes up way less hard drive space than the compressed HD codecs.
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[john sharaf] “remember that Rembrandt did’t have the luxury of artificial photographic lighting instruments!”
Not so John, a newly discovered self-portrait clearly shows Rembrandt making good use of a Chimera lighting fixture…
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[Bob Cole] “And that it didn’t help to set up far away from the subject and use tele — for a given image size, the background would be equally defocussed.”
Hey Bob,
Not certain what you mean when you say, “background would be equally defocused.” At least it won’t be in hard focus… Right???
DRW
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Andrew,
I have an Extreme card wired to a Mackie 1402 and it works perfectly. Evidently something is not patched or wired properly on your system.
BTW, when you do have everything right, make certain to turn your trim pots all the way down, as you’ll find that your board will work the way it was meant to, with faders in their detent positions feeding perfect signal into and out of the Mackie with little adjustment.
DRW