[Janet Turner]

Thank you for the link Mike. Great fonts!

As a reminder, if you use any of non-standard Windows fonts in your projects, be sure to save them into a separate fonts directory and/or with the project itself just in case Windows crashes and you have to reinstall it. I save mine to three locations – one is in a directory “Fonts other”, the second is in the project itself, the final is onto a backup disk.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

I would suspect the reason you are having problems with the audio is because the video/audio are in a group. In order to edit them separately, you have to ungroup them. To do this, highlight the audio clip, right click on it and a menu will come up. Check remove from group. Now when you edit the audio, it will not cut the clip. Be sure your auto-ripple option in the toolbar is not active and then you can slice and dice to your hearts content. Once you make your changes, be sure to add everything back to a group or your audio will be out of sync should you make additional changes to your clip(s).

Hope this helps.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

I am pretty sure Premiere works with .m2t files. Probably your best bet is to ask the client which editing program they are using and then you can go to that website and make sure that program can read them. It would be my guess if the client is asking you to save these off as raw footage that they have experience with this type of file.

Have a great day.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

I might be missing something here but have you captured this type of footage before? If so, it would seem once you have the footage in a directory on your own computer hard drive you could just hook up an external hard drive via usb or firewire and copy the directory to the new drive.

Have a great day.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Gary –

Thank you for getting back to me so fast. You must sleep with the computer by your side!

I’ll redo the project and not use that evil old single movie option ever again :-).

Have a great day.

Janet

[Janet Turner]

Thanks Ed –

I thought I should be able to see the keyframes both on my timeline and within the pan/crop window. I did have everything set up correctly from what I could tell. I am obviously doing something wrong but I finally got everything to work as it should when I had my pan/crop window opened on one monitor and the timeline open on the other. I’ll keep working on it!

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Thanks Gary – I was using Pan/Crop on the event level. Once I switch to the track level my keyframes are showing up.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

I have both Cinescore and Sonicfire Pro. I also have music from Digital Juice. I am not an audio person so I find I use all of them about equally. I’m like ICVideo, I figure the program will improve with time and the tracks I pick for my productions sound fine to me. There are some I don’t like because of the mechanical sound but it is “Fusion” type music and I don’t like fusion music to begin with so that is probably why I don’t care for it.

In my opinion, the biggest problems with Sonicfire Pro I have found is they do not give their customers very good breaks on new releases of the program nor do they give customers very good breaks on the music. With Cinescore at least your new packs are reasonably priced.

Interesting comment about ACID and, now that you mention it, I can hear some ACID influence in some of the music.

Sorry you are disappointed with the product but for folks like me it can be a life saver.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Rick –

THANK YOU! You are awesome – you solved the problem. Per your suggestion, I went into the Preferences tab in Sound Forge and ran through options I had for the Default Playback Device. One combination all of the sudden allowed the audio to be played from both right and left channels through the speakers as well as via headphones. For those with a Saffire LE sound card, what ended up working was having the audio device set as Saffire LE ASIO, the Default playback device Play 7/Play8; the Default recording device Rec 5/Rec6.

Rick – you are a lifesaver. This was driving me nuts. Who knows why it changed but at least it is back to working properly. Thank you so much for jumping on this problem so quickly and helping me resolve it.

Grasshopper

[Janet Turner]

Rick –

“Is it possible that once your waveform is opened in soundforge that one side (channel) has been highlighted (selected)? This would cause you to hear only the side selected.”

Both sets of waveforms show up in Sound Forge and I can jump between them or listen to them together or individually on the headphones. I can reverse channels, still hear either/or on the headphones but the right channel can only be heard through the headphones.

I have to run off to do an errand but when I get back I’m thinking about reinstalling Sound Forge. Do you think that is a good idea or will it make things worse?

Grasshopper