[John Kis]

In my experience, I would say the answer to this is ‘no’. What you are describing is very difficult to accomplish. If the background audio was reasonably uniform you could potentially capture a period of audio when none of your friends are talking and use that profile to do a noise reduction. That’s all I can think of. I don’t like your chances! Sorry.

[John Kis]

Thanks Joe – great advice.

[John Kis]

In a burned DVD.

[John Kis]

Hi Joe,

I’m using CS4 for windows.

The duration for the audio track is 9 seconds, however i have entered 10 minutes into the duration field. The highlights disappear after 9 seconds.

The loop point is 00:00.

I have loop # set to None.

[John Kis]

Thanks Zane. Yes, I’m quickly discovering that VLCs export capability leaves a lot to be desired.

[John Kis]

I’ve discovered 2 programs which can play the .mov hd3 files on a pc – mplayer, and VLC. I’m experimenting with VLC at the moment – it seems to have the functionality to export to a variety of different containers/compression types. Hopefully I have some luck with this – otherwise the ProRes solution is looking likely. Thanks.

[John Kis]

Thanks Dennis. Unfortunately the footage is in HD.

[John Kis]

Hi Zane, thanks for the tip.

[John Kis]

Bugger. I suppose a work around in the meantime will be to ask my friend to export the clips with a PC compliant codec.

Such a shame as Adobe made a song and dance about how you can import FCP projects into Premiere.

David, does that mean that the video from her camera had to be converted to the QT HDV format before FCP could use it? It’s unusual that it wasn’t kept in the same format/compression type it was shot on – isn’t that what happens with SD?

John

[John Kis]

Thanks for the response. At the end of the day, what is functionally different between a budget dolly such as the paintedsheep, vs something towards the midrange. Is there any difference in smoothness?

John