[Denis Williamson]

Many thanks Rob, for the detailed instructions and I’ve been trying to work through them whilst looking at the photo I took of the Yamaha mixer and reading its online manual. And I seem to have Sennheiser AVX mics (2 lavaliers) – more below – rather than any of the G series.

The people who own this venue do seem to take their room mics out of the 2 x Stereo Out jack sockets on the mixer (as I can see in my photo – although there must be a separate box somewhere else, amalgamating the 5 or 6 mics that were being used at the event) but… there are a further 2 x XLR Stereo Out sockets remaining unused on the mixer, presumably with the same function as the Stereo Out Jack sockets. Whether both outputs (jack and XLR) can be used at the same time, I’ll have to find out when I next get access. And I could use my 2 wireless mics to cover the full soundscape in case they have different mics wired up to different channels.

I also see the Monitor Out channels (L & R) and note what you say about them sending line level signals rather than regular mic signals. Unfortunately, with the Sennheiser AVXs, I don’t seem to be able to change the sensitivity of the transmitter (not manually, anyway). However, I would like to believe that your suggestion to use the Monitor channel might work anyway, with the AVX being able to automatically adjust (I live in hope).

Whatever, I am grateful for all the suggestions and when I next get back to this venue I shall have a good few options to try out.

Many thanks to all for the help.

Denis

[Denis Williamson]

Ty,

I live in Hong Kong (I don’t know if you’re close?) but the venue with the Yamaha Mixer is used by lots of organisations and I can’t just walk in and access the mixer, I’m afraid. That is a major problem, but I have learnt a bit from studying the manual. The next event is coming up early in December, so I may get the chance to practice then. In the meantime I thought to try and tap into the knowledge base of Creative Cow ;o)

Denis

[Denis Williamson]

Thanks Bob and Ty, and yes I’m hard-wiring my mic(s) to the mixer and using wireless to transfer to the camera – or at least trying to.

The main problem is my lack of knowledge of the Yamaha mixer, and the fact that it is (for me) so large and complicated – as mentioned I would like to upload a photo of the mixer but can’t find out how to do that – and… since writing yesterday (I’m in Hong Kong so I write while you guys sleep and vice versa) I’ve found the Yamaha MG16XU Manual online.

When, at my first event using the Yamaha, I tried plugging my mic into sockets called “Group Out” and into others called “Aux Send” – both with no joy at all (and I avoided the “Monitor Out”) but now, having had a little more time to look through the manual, I see that there are 2 x XLR outputs called “Stereo Out” : L & R.
I have cables/plugs which could convert those into mini-jacks to go into my mic transmitters, and, as long as I can find the “volume out” control on the Yamaha, then that might work. Any comments on that?
I was disappointed that the “Group Out” sockets didn’t work, but that may have been because it wasn’t easy to find the right volume control and they may simply have been “turned dwn”. Another problem is that I get so little time to try out these things as the venue is always being used – but I don’t think you guys can help with that :o)

Anyway, thanks again for any help.

denisw

[Denis Williamson]

Thanks for the information, Peter, I’ll try it out as soon as I get a minute. One unfortunate thing is that UpRez was a MacUpdate special recently (50% off – but only for 24 hours) which is what brought me to BorisFX in the first place. Don’t worry though, if I like UpRez enough I’ll find a way to buy it.

Regards,
Denis

[Denis Williamson]

Peter,

As a new downloader of UpRez I’ve been unable to get it to work in FCP 7 as the tutorial mentioned by Anthony (above) is no longer available (at least not at that url).
I’m trying to uprez a regular PAL DV clip, which doesn’t have square pixels, so I can’t use the HD Slug method, but the alternative directions in the help doc are fairly meaningless (“unanimated BCC Generator”???).

Is there a video tutorial available anywhere…?

Regards
denisw