Jay Curlee
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Thanks for your help. Sadly, my 3 week old camera has 1.05_405 firmware. I live on the Big Island of Hawaii and the dealer is on Oahu.
It’s always something.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Jay
Jay Curlee
JC Communications
Makers of Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey
http://www.rockingtheboatmovie.com -
How do I check the firmware and then what? My searches aren’t yielding anything.
Thanks,
Jay
Jay Curlee
JC Communications
Makers of Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey
http://www.rockingtheboatmovie.com -
Stu,
I am going to include a bit of “making of” material in the new release. The big hold-up for me right now is getting my 5.1 tracks from the sound engineer. I am down to about 30 copies at Filmbaby. It is the original cut and has a nice stereo mix. We actually sold about 2300 copies.
We had a pretty good run at film festivals, having gotten into 6. People laughed, cried, and applauded in all the right places and it was nice to see our work up on the big screen.
If you love Great American Roots Rock music you should order a copy of this release, while it is still in stock. I expect to be sold out in a week or so. Then it will be a couple of months before we get the next version out.
This was a labor of love project. Our money. As you know, you’re not supposed to do that.
Anyhow, Thanks for your interest,
Jay
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David, et al,
Regarding the interview segments of my movie, do you have any suggestions on how to design it for surround?
Half of my interview content was shot on a ship with heavy duty engine room rumble. I created a discreet sound effects track which emulated the sound of a concert going on outside the room where the interview was happening. (Most of the movie is shot on Delbert McClinton’s Sandy Beaches Cruise, which has concerts going on from 11am until 4am, every day for 7 days)
Intuitively I would say that the concert sound efx would sound good if sent to the back channels.
I would also assume my timeline then would have 12 tracks, checkerboarded. (6 for song mixes and 6 for interviews)
Jay
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I never intended to mix anything. I am actually interested in what to do when I get my mixes back from the audio post facility. Then the issue is how to encode it in compressor to get ready for DVD replication.
Thanks for all the help and keep it coming if you have time.
Jay Curlee
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Thank you David. Even I can understand this. Go to my website and drop me a note and I’ll shoot a screener out to you.
Jay Curlee
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Charlie, thanks for your post. Understand that there is no more “editing” to do. I am just trying to get all my tracks in the right place so I can eventually make a DVD master for replication which has 5.1 sound.
Jay
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David and Charlie,
I was fearful that I was in so far over my head that I would not be able to ask good questions. This is apparently the case since I am no less confused than I was before.
I have been going on the theory that when I finally get my 5.1 song mixes from my engineeer, I would then drop them into my timeline and zap the stereo mixes out. My subsequent concern wwas how to incorporate the interviews into this sound design.
And regarding monitoring, am I going to have to just trust that the engineer did a great mix? I do trust him BTW. Without a surround sound system in my edit bay, can’t I just monitor in stereo to make sure everything is lined up?
Am I clear? I feel like I am in the wilderness.
Jay
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David,
Sound and picture are locked. My timeline contains stereo song mixes, interview audio, narration, and sfx all on discreet tracks.
Wouldn’t I just duplicate the sequence and drop the new dolby mix tracks in their respective spots and zap the stereo mixes out?
This still leaves the issue of what I do with the narration, interview, and sfx tracks.
Apologies if I am just being dumb,
Jay Curlee
Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey
http://www.rockingtheboatmovie.com -
I also meant to say that there are overlapping sound elements almost everywhere. That will make finding a cut point tough.