[John Fishback]

All Thax said is true. Here’s another idea. Some receivers have a way to bypass its output amps and send a preamp level signal to an external power amp. Usually, these outputs are controlled by the receiver’s volume control. If your receiver has this kind of output, try that as a way of lowering the gain to the mac.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

Search this forum for more info about Edit to Tape. There are some wrinkles. In FCP4.5 (I’m not sure if this has been fixed in FCP5) you had to drag the icon of the sequence you wanted to dump to tape FROM the browser TO the Edit to Tape window that opens over the Canvas, where you’ll see options either to Insert, Assemble or Preview. You have to enter ins and outs and make sure you’re controlling with 422. There are lots of other options, too.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

Another thought – any midi drivers need updating for Tiger?

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

Have you done anything that’s affected the midi buss or any related control panels?

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

I have no idea if this will work, but trash your preferences if you haven’t tried that.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

Do you have any other Firewire devices connected to the G5? If so, there may be a conflict. How did you monitor FCP before the m-audio?

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

I installed a second internal drive and installed Tiger on that. By using the Startup Disk utility in System Prefs I can choose to be in Panther or Tiger. Using FCP5 I’ve opened and worked on at least 6 projects started in 4.5 with no ill effects at all. I still backed all my project files up on two external drives.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

MPEGs are for archive purposes, not broadcast.

John

[John Fishback]

I think the approach you take has a lot to do with the audio content you’re woking with. For straight ahead dialogue, narration-based tracks or commercial spots I have to agree with a couple of posters who advocate letting levels fall between -6 and -3. Obviously, you have to watch your transients carefully. I usually apply some compression to assure there are no errant peaks. I’ll even go through the track and make keyframe adjustments to contol audio peaks. The tracks are hotter and don’t need normalization (which is basically bringing the audio gain up to just below the clip point). It also makes a big difference when exporting audio tracks to DVD or for web use. If you understand the process, it works very well.

However, for video or film projects that involve a lot of dynamics, I’ll average at -12 or -20 which allows for dramatic dynamics (explosions, etc.). I’ll always release the master with audio the way the client calls for it.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors

[John Fishback]

There’s a lot of information you need to learn to make this happen properly. Search this forum for green screen and chroma key and you should find everything you need. The Ken Stone site also has a lot of good info.

John

Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors