[John Magee]

Thanks for that…
I got my new mic. I bought a $10 XLR to 1/8 mini cable. It is 5′ long, has small guage cable all the way. With the recorder input maxed out, I don’t get much sensitivity with my mic.
I then tried my standard XLR cable, into an XLR to 1/4″ adaptor, into a 1/4″ to 1/8″ adaptor, and into the recorder. Boom – the sensitivity is waaay up. But then I have a lot of noise, I imagine, from all that adaptor stuff.
This makes me wonder if my $10 cable is just crap, or if there’s a different style that would work.
The bottom line is I don’t want to spend another $200 for a preamp if I can get a decent signal from the right cable.
Any ideas, places to point me?
Thanks again,
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John

[John Magee]

Thanks John,
Yes, I see the changes when I do the half-screen rez. So That does help me understand it. I think it’s time to upgrade to a quad-core (from a P-4) and hopefully that will give me a little better playback.
Thanks again,
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John

[John Magee]

Thank you for your response, but perhaps I didn’t make myself clear:

I have no issue with FX using varying degrees of CPU power and lowering frame-rates, all that is to be expected.
The issue is that there is zero difference, in playback rate, between Best/Full, Good/Full, and Preview/Full.
The reason I mentioned the various FX was to show that this behaviour is not dependent on the type of FX being used.
So, that does not seem to me normal behaviour – I can only assume that the various settings are designed to raise frame-rates as they reduce quality. Am I missing something?

Thanks
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John

[John Magee]

Yeah, that’s weird. I’ve heard so many people talk about how getting more memory really benefits the Ram Preview…
something’s fishy here

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John

[John Magee]

Thanks,
I downloaded Super and it worked OK. But couldn’t download it from the official “Super” site, something weird about their pages. I went to Afterdawn.com to get it.

Thanks again.

[John Magee]

Wow –
I recieved answers to both my questions this morning within minutes. You guys are great.

I’ll start with the 60hz filter in Vegas, check out Audacity, and when the budget allows, Izotope sounds like the way to go.

Thanks,

John

[John Magee]

Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, I do pretty good at keeping those start-up programs down. I even turned off a few more after your post.
I updated my video driver – though I don’t know why the old one would turn bad, but hey, I gave it a try.
Someone on another forum had an interesting suggestion – he does a dual-boot, both with XP, one partition is just for video related software, the other has all the other stuff like Word and whatever. He surfs the net on this one. I may try that at some point.
Another guy does a Disk-Image after his fresh install so he can revert to it if he needs to.
Anyway, maybe I’ll get the time and patience down the road to mess with all that.
Cheers

[John Magee]

I think she means…
Imagine someone writing on a frosty/foggy window with their finger – you’re on the outside looking at the letters appear, you don’t actually see what’s doing the writing. It will look reversed to you cause you’re on the outside, they are writing from the inside.
Now imagine thin paper on a piece of clear glass. The paper is the frost/fog. You videotape that writing event, then you flip the image in Vegas so it’s not backwards. If you light the backside properly, you won’t see through the paper.

[John Magee]

I have my 22″ on the left and the 19″ on the right. The main application window is on the left, with the timeline along the bottom (the default set-up), the project media upper left, the trimmer to the right of that, and video fx often is to the right of that. I put the preview window on the right-hand monitor, along with the as-needed functions of audio levels, scopes, sometimes pro-titler.

I’m still learning what works best and it varies sometimes from project to project, or even from the beginning to the end of a project.

[John Magee]

I recently started using dual monitors. Nice. much less moving the dockable windows around, resizing, etc. I think you’ll get used to it pretty quickly.

I have a 22″ widescreen and a 19″ regular next to each other, and they happen to be the same height. Although most folks seem to go for 24″, for me, it felt a little too big – I think my eyes are more comfortable not having to move up and down quite so much. So 2×22″ sounds like a nice set-up to me.