[John Fishback]

When you have many audio tracks try an Audio Mixdown (Sequence>Render Only >Mixdown) and see if that helps. Have you trashed prefs and rebuilt permissions?

John

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[John Fishback]

While Video Purifier by Innobits is most known for its video noise reduction it also has an excellent scaler. https://www.innobits.com/purifier.html

John

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[John Fishback]

Slingbox works, but has a delay dependent on connection speed. We’ve seen 10 – 15 second lag. Your client has to download the Slingbox client. You feed Slingbox video & sound and your client watches on their laptop. Only one remote client can watch at a time. https://www.slingmedia.com/

John

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[John Fishback]

Bourke, your explanation is correct. However, one second at 23.98 = 1 sec at 29.97 so I question whether 23.98 vs 29.97 is the issue. Perhaps there’s drift since the audio recorder and videocam were not resolved to ref. Also, the camera probably records audio at a different sample rate from a CD. Depending how the audio was captured, this, too, could have an effect. What do you think?

John

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[John Fishback]

That won’t cause any issues I know of. In fact, if the audio gain is low, that process will make it louder.

John

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[John Fishback]

Checkout https://www.videotoolshed.com/?page=products&pID=27. They have a demo so you can see if it works.

John

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[John Fishback]

While it’s tecnically possible to have a passive circuit mix two signals into one, you have no control. What happens if one mic becomes too loud compared to the other, etc. Your best approach is to feed one wireless to each channel and bag the on-camera mic (which will probably give you distant sound anyway). Otherwise, you’d need a mixer to handle 3 inpits down to two. Make sure you adjust the mics and camera to the correct audio levels. And test it out before your shoot.

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[John Fishback]

While we don’t own an HPX300, we do have an HPX500. The workflow is simple and fast with FCP: P2 mxf injested as DVCPro HD. I’m not familiar with Premiere, but if it can handle mxf it should be fine. Avid is fine with mxf. All these cameras have their plusses and minuses. You need to decide what your business requires and your customers, too. When I was deciding which camera system to buy two years ago I made a grid with features and capabilities I needed and which cameras met them. Then I made my choice.

John

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[John Fishback]

If the audio has been recorded consistently for all the interviews, Todd’s suggestion will work. However, if some clips are loud and others soft compared to the clip you use to set the compressor, the results won’t be good.

Perhaps you can save some time grouping clips by shoot days. Even with different recording styles with different sound people, I’d hope they’d be consistent within a day.

John

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[John Fishback]

I suspect your friend’s system was set up for some flavor of surround sound and was incorrectly interpreting your sound track.

As for the way you cut your audio my only suggestion would be to pan all the clips to center (0) so you have mono sound (unless you want each person’s voice to come from a different side). You can set the audio to mono in your first clip and then paste its attributes to all the other clips.

Also, listen carefully to the background sound. You may have to adjust the gain from interviewer to interviewee so you don’t get noticeable changes in “room tone.”

John

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