Gavin Stokes
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There was a bulletin that went out in the last couple of years about certain Mac portables that suffered from a faulty FireWire port design. I don’t remember what the exact problem was, but some site had a detailed analysis and found that there was a missing capacitor or some such simple safeguard that was missing.
FireWire is hot-swappable, otherwise it isn’t FireWire or IEEE-1394 or whatever you want to call it. Panasonic should be held accountable and not be charging customers for a faulty design.
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What would I be rendering? I just want to open the file in Sound Forge. I haven’t done anything that warrants rendering. I have to rewrite hundreds of megabytes of audio every time I want to add or move a marker? That really wouldn’t be acceptable, and it also wouldn’t make sense because the markers aren’t even stored in the audio file itself; they’re in an sfk file.
Thanks though.
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Thanks Edward, but there is no video to render in my project. There’s just a low-quality video track to use for timing. I set markers in Vegas (based on events in the video) and then say “open in Sound Forge.” Mysteriously, there are no markers.
I’m mystified if no one has noticed this problem. How do you set cue points for reference when you go into the audio editor?
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Thanks, but I tried that. They still don’t show up. Plus, it’s a little cumbersome to have to put everything in the trimmer and then go to Sound Forge.
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Forgot to mention, I’m using the latest versions: Vegas 6 and Sound Forge 8.
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This seems to be a playback problem in FCP. I have the same problem with DV50 footage captured through an Aja Io.
The annoying thing is that the sync just suddenly falls apart. Your whole sequence works fine, and you’re editing away. But some editing manuever seems to mess up FCP and then the audio is about six frames ahead of the video all through the sequence, and there’s no way I can find to eliminate the problem.
And the problem doesn’t seem to be constant; the sync seems to be worse some places than others.
I’m monitoring using the build-in audio and the canvas, AND an external monitor. Sync is off the same way all around.
If you render your sequence out to QT, though, it’s in sync.
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You said that when you view the clips in QT Player, they’re fine. So it’s not a capture problem.
I have the same sync problem in FCP 5, but it’s something that happens suddenly when working in a timeline. Everything’s fine, then some editing maneuver throws the audio off by about six frames, permanently. The audio is ahead of the video from then on, everywhere in the timeline. The problem exists when I listen to the audio directly from the computer and view the video on the canvas OR on an external monitor through an Aja Io.
I thought I had found a way to jolt FCP back into sync by exporting the project to XML and then importing it back. That worked once, but it hasn’t worked since.
So far I’m stumped as to how to solve this. It’s a playback problem, though; if you export your sequence to QuickTime from FCP, you’ll find it’s really in sync.
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Les,
This may be related to an OS-level problem. The general key remapper at the OS level fails to deactivate the normal function of Tab and some other keys while you’re setting the hotkey for a function, making it impossible to remap them. There are also a lot of problems caused by conflicts between old Emacs control keys and keys that the user defines.
There’s a lot of cleanup that needs to be done in this area.
Regards,
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I don’t have any way to adjust the video before it gets to the Io, so I guess I’m stuck with what’s coming from my S-VHS deck (yes, S-VHS; I’m archiving personal footage).
I wanted to make any general signal-level corrections before capturing to DV50, since any subsequent corrections require recompression; since I’m planning to archive the final edit on a DVCPro50 deck via FireWire, most of the original captured frames should make it through the process without recompression.
Regards,
Gavin