[Frank Manno]

Thanks for your response… Yeah I have been ducking the music as you suggested.

I think I need to compress the speech track, you’re right. I just have no idea how to use the compressor.

Will try your suggestion on the speech preset.

Otherwise do you know of any good links of learning how to use that compressor in Vegas?

-Frank

[Frank Manno]

John, thanks for the reply –

I ended up creating the DVD anyway with teh ‘progressive = no’ setting and when I played it back on my plasma TV, it looked progressive.

I had shots with lots of motion and progressive was the look.

To summorize, I shot progressive with my 5D at 25fps, project settings in vegas all set accordingly, clips all set accordingly.

Final stage in DVD architect with ‘progressive = n’ and the result is just what I wanted.

Could anyone explain what could be going on here?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Thank you!!

[Frank Manno]

[Chris Babbitt] “You have to have the Audio In switch on the camera set to External in order to activate the menu setting, otherwise it will be grayed out.”

With the EX1/R it’s greyed out even with the switch at the back set to external.

Only way to make it active is to select manual audio.

This is my whole problem, I want to se th elevels from -43 to say -35 but I can’t unless I use manual audio.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

[Greg Ondera] “Seems like setting to -20db in a night club is an automatic consideration. -6db leaves you no headroom whatsoever. An attenuator would have helped, but not at -6dbs. I wouldn’t even do talking head interviews at -6dbs.”

My mistake – I don’t know where I got that figure of -6db from.

My settings are as follows:

TRIM CHANNEL 1 – Greyed out
TRIM CHANNEL 2 – Greyed out

INT MIC level – 0db
Limited – OFF
MIC AGC – High
AGC Link – Seperated
1KH Tone – OFF
Wind Filter Channel 2 – OFF

That’s it – I have no idea where I can even set the external mic to -20db.

I can see a setting there for the built in mic (INT MIC LEVEL) which I guess I can change to -6 or -12 but not for the external mic.

Let me get this right – Is Manual audio and adjusting the TRIM settings the way to solve this for next time? Or is there some other way in auto audio which I’m using?

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

[Craig Seeman] “As difficult as club situations are (I’ve shot in them often) you need headphones (closed ear). If the distortion isn’t coming out of the PA and you hear it in your headphones you KNOW you have to adjust your settings. Trim is in the Audio menu. Different cameras work differently with a given external mic.”

Hi Craig –

The audio comming from the spakers was not distorted. Was very clear but also very loud.

Is it the TRIM setting that needs to be adjusting in this situation?

There doesn’t seem to be many audio chosies in auto.

Remember I have a Rode NTG1 external mic on channel 2 and am using the built in mic for channel 1.

TRIM CHANNEL 1 – Greyed out
TRIM CHANNEL 2 – Greyed out

INT MIC level – 0db
Limited – OFF
MIC AGC – High
AGC Link – Seperated
1KH Tone – OFF
Wind Filter Channel 2 – OFF

I don’t know which to set to fix this.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

When you say warm, do you mean as warm as most other electronic items such as TV’s can get?

My aftermarket cards get a lot warmer than that, leaning towards hot. I’ve never felt ‘electronic’ equipment as hot as these cards.

Hot enough for me to wonder what’s going on.

SO the SxS you say, don’t get as hot as I’m describing then?

I wonder how bad this can be.. Hmmm.

-Frankie

[Frank Manno]

Thanks.

I think I best stick to my trusty old 0db then 🙂

[Frank Manno]

Using sync’ed sound – Am on a windows system too so compressor won’t work 🙂

[Frank Manno]

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