[Dpdenver]

now if I would only spell check b4 sending

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[Dpdenver]

Thanks for the responses. As I thought – but the repsonses sure help reinforce taking that position. Thanks.

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Thanks again Willie. I started looking at the Adobe forums to see if there was an answer – and found “Single-channel editing was a feature we were unable to include in version 1.0 of Soundbooth.”

I was using soundbooth cause it came with CS3 – and I wanted to see how it worked. Just thought single channel editing would be a feature – can’t imagine that it is not. It wasn’t that I couldn’t get it done – it was that I couldn’t get it done in Soundbooth – and it was driving me nuts not to be able to find it.

I’ll fire up Audtion2 and it’s a piece of cake – as it should have been in Soundbooth.

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Thanks Willie. However, in that respect I don’t think it is like Audtion – and I read and searched the help file and can’t find anything on working in seperate audio channels – hence the reason for my post.

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Evolution: the goal is to provide this to the stations, chances are they shoot some flavor of DV. Just go with a high quality SD 4:3 60i workflow and issue solved.

abd MarK: I think if you want your guy to have the best shot at getting on air, you want to go to some dub house or rental shop and make copies onto “real” DVCPro25 or DVCAM as well as BetaSP.

Thanks for replies, I could just write out my SD DV footage to a Sony DVC tape and essentially do what Evolution suggests. Or I could write it out to a TDK tape (the tape I always use in my camera – maybe that needs to change in the future). I was also under the impression from talking to the Sony Tape rep that I couold also pop a DVCam tape in my DV camera (Pana DVC80 or 30) and write SD to the DVCAM tape. Would there be an advantage to going with one format over the other ? It just doesn’t seem to me there is any reason to go DVCAM tape (unless that is all the station will take – and I don’t think that is the case – just not clear on that issue yet.)

And my client just needs to take footage in an acceptable format – his interview acceptance is not tied to the footage he brings – but I want him to be able to hand the footage to them and for them to be able to use it – and not tell him – gee, your guy is a dumb nut and should have known better not to give you footage in this format.

I guess that is why I like Evolutions suggestion – but I think Mark makes some good points also.

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I have a SD question on this topic – I’ll post here and if I should do a new topic please tell me.

I am shooting B-Roll for a guy who is hoping for appearances on interview shows on various stations to demo his product. He just wants 20 seconds of the product. I am shooting SD on DVC tape – not Sony DVC but just mini-casette DVC tape.

In talking to stations, I seem to get conflicting info (even from same station) as to format for client to take to station. Sony tape guy says give it to them on DVC tape- that their systems can ingest any DVC tape. Of course he recommends Sony DVC – but he admits that if you have good quality footage and no drop outs – what you give it to them on is not that big of a deal. Station engineers are saying they want either DVC-Pro or DVCAM tapes – even if SD footage.

My limited understanding is DVCAM and DVC tapes are basically compatible in tape drives for ingesting, but that DVPro are not – takes a different machine.

And I am not sure where BetaSP fits in any more – is that now an outdated format for presenting to stations ?

So my question is – is this just a station to station thing, and should I be concerned if my client takes a DVC tape with SD footage to a station for an interview that they will not be able to use it ?

And one more thing – if I put the video up as 720×480 SD AVI footage for the station to download from a web site – am I out of line recommending that to the station ?

As you might tell, I am new at this and trying to understand the right questions to ask.

Thanks

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It’s the March/April issue – and here is a link – but it seems that Youtube has changed since then – so the link is actually to a retraction – https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=20&postid=857405

[Dpdenver]

I guess what I was asking is that should I be concerned that when I install CS3 with soundbooth that audition CS2 will be uninstalled ?

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Yes – thanks.

I know nothing is written in stone and practice practice is the key, but would the multiband compressor take the place of steps

2. parametric EQ for a bit of richness
3. Hard Limiter (instead of normalizing)

or would it be best performed after (or before) steps 2 & 3 ?

[Dpdenver]

Ya – hosed is right. I used Audtion, got rid of the fire crackles, tried a bunch with the noise reduction – but it usually got to tinnie so in the end I abandoned trying noise reduction, sweetened it up a bit and normalized it out – turned out just ok – except where the musician was sooooo good that everyone shut up while they sang. Guess I’m sending it off to Vegas next time.