Harry Bromley-davenport
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COW Coins
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I am just finishing a feature which largely takes place in a blizzard.
I have a lot of snow material shot against black background with “Snow Business (sic) snow generators.
Majority of my stuff, shot specially for this movie, is of thick and driving snow. I do not have any light snow except for some swirling effects.
What exactly are you looking for? If you are in LA you can drop round and have a few feet for free.
I am currently the GREAT SNOW EXPERT – as you might imagine!
Harry
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Please tell me … what are the problems with archiving on hard drives.
I should have thought that tape was a more vulnerable medium.
Harry
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You do not need any special card to run the V/O tool.
Your signal should go from your mike, through a preamplifier (you could use a camera, for instance) and then into the line input on the rear of your Mac.
If you connect the mike directly into the Mac, there won’t be a strong enough signal to register. This may be your problem.
It’s a great tool and I use it all the time for ADR and foley.
Harry
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Wow! A genuine Dan Quayle “potatoe” moment.
Best
Harry
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Contact:
aeroquartet.com.
Very reasonably priced and it saved my life.
Write to Benoit.
Harry
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Christoph has always replied to my email questions remarkably promptly – on weekends too, when I didn’t expect a quick reply.
I own and have had good experience with his Repair package and his Titles package. Cheap and good.
Harry Bromley-Davenport, for Dorian, Inc.
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Isobel,
As a relatively easy test, try doing this:
1. Make a new sequence in FCP and pull in a “SLUG” with 0db tone.
2. Export it as .aiff.
3. Import it into Protools and check that it is 0db.
4. Now reimport it into FCP and see if it’s still 0db.
If it stay at 0db throughout, your original music material is too hot for broadcast and has to be decreased. If the 0db level changes you have a hardware or software or operator (?) problem.
Right??
Best wishes,
Harry
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Isobel said that when she exported it to Protools there was no distortion – by which I understood her to mean that it did not clip.
I’m therefore assuming that the material itself is ok and that the fault lies with the Mac’s brain or with FCP. Where else is there to lay the blame?
Harry.
PS. I understand what you are saying about matching other levels etc, but I guess I was suggesting that lowering the level isn’t going to solve the initial problem which is that the track appears to have gained a few DB during the importing process. Naturally I did not intend you to think that I was advocating delivering a red hot overmodulated track for broadcast.
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I think that there may be something wacky with the hardware in your computer.
I’m assuming you have done all the usual stuff like reinstalling the system and FCP etc?
I agree with you. That shouldn’t happen. And lowering the level is a bad idea.
Harry
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I transfer my Firestore QT files to the Mac and then simply drop them into a ProRez Hi Quality timeline.
No rendering necessary.
Harry.