[John Fishback]

One tip I’ve found very helpful when lighting a subject being keyed on green is to have back or rim light with an amber gel. This helps separate the subject from the background and suppress green spill.

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[John Fishback]

Sound Soap or Sound Soap Pro will do this in Peak. (https://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundsoap/) The interface is impossible in FCP4.5. However, if you can wait, the new Soundtrack Pro will have this functionality built in.

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[John Fishback]

There are two things I can think of that can be causing the distortion you are hearing. The first is that the line level being sent from the mixer is overloading the input preamp of your camera. Adjusting the level controls on your camera won’t fix this. You need to lower the level coming out of the mixer. You can do this by adjusting the “Sends” on the mixer. If this is not possible, you need to use a “pad” that will attenuate the level. A pad looks like a tube with a connector on each end. You plug one cable from the mixer output into one side of the pad and a cable to the camera into the other side of the pad. You’ll need two pads as they are typically mono devices. Usually pads are switchable so you can pick an amount of attenuation that eliminates the distorsion, but doesn’t make the level too low, ie. -10 or -20db. The second thing you need to check is that the cables running from the mixer to camera are wired correctly. You mentioned RCA connectors. Are the outs on the mixer and the inputs on the camera both RCA? If so, then the problem is most likely the output level being too high. If one end is RCA (2 connections: center and shield) and the other is XLR (three connections: high, low and shield) you must make sure the cable is wired correctly. If the cable’s not wire correctly you’d hear tinny and/or hum-filled audio, probably not distorsion. Hope this helps.

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[John Fishback]

First, you need to digitize the audio, Your computer may be able to do this (it can if it’s a mac) or have a card installed that will do this. If so, plug the left and right outputs of your cassette deck into the audio inputs of your computer/card and record (digitize) the program. The result will probably be a .aif or .wav file. Then you need to burn an audio CD of that file. Depending on the kind of computer you own, you may have a bullt-in CD burner. If you do then you also probably have a program that will burn the CD. Start that program and drag the audio file into it and you should be able to burn the CD. Search the tuorials on the Cow. There may be more detailed info available.

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[John Fishback]

Try the setting:

AJA Io: YPbPr Betacam 10-bit NTSC US 48kHz

I think the problem may be your SMPTE/N10 choice. I’ve read about this kind of issue in the past on these forums. Your might search on SMPTE/N10 and see what comes up.

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[John Fishback]

Genelec 1030a’s with subwoof. Yamaha D1000 console. I use 2 old Fostex self-amped speakers to simulate a less than perfect home moniotring setup. This is also very representative of monitoring on a laptop with small speakers – how many of my clients listen to DVDs.

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[John Fishback]

I regularly push my audio to -6 so the track plays a bit hot. I use -31 in A.Pack and haven’t had a problem.

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[John Fishback]

It sounds like you are seeing the markers that are written by FCP to tell Compressor where transitions occur in the program. I saw this once when I exported a QT. When I checked my export setup I had Markers set to DVD Studio Pro and saw them in a thin band across the top of the exported QT.

It’s possible that your client exported the footage this way and you don’t see the band until you render it. Just a thought.

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[John Fishback]

Are you aware of Multicam? Here’s the url: https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/indexflash.htm

I haven’t used it, but it might be an immediate solution. Perhaps someone who’s had some direct experience with it can comment.

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[John Fishback]

My apologies for re-asking this question here, but it seems to be the relevant thread. Will the IO support audio in and out of Soundtrack Pro?

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