Kay Edwards
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similar situation – did you find the best way to convert to pal?
The only difference I have is the framerate, 29.97
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Many thanks, Dave!! I’ve been manually adjusting the levels – time consuming, but so far the best approach…. THANK YOU!
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The main issue is adjusting peaks (with Normalizing) in between sentences. For example: the sentence “Hi, how are you?” “Hi” has a peak of -2dB, while the rest of the sentence is at -17dB. Leveling the two parts with Normalizing, creates glitches that are undetectable with the “Analyze” function. (Remember, I work on AIFF tracks – sending OMFs or the original FCP timeline to STP3 freezes the system and as I said, the audio is recorded on 16 channels, accidentally).
When leveling the sentence with Levelator, the word “Hi” sounds as if it’s coming from far, while the rest sounds ok.
My audio system is fine.
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Should have taken your advise, Michael (& later Dave’s). The LVTR output is inconsistent 🙁 At times the dialogue seems to come from far while the waves look leveled with the rest of the track.
Sending AIFF tracks (mono) to STP (without handles) to work on peaks. (With handles it didn’t work).
What shall I avoid when “normalizing”, cleaning ?
Sorry about all these unpro questions – our sound designer is on vacation so I’m left with unfinished audio….this is my first sound experiment.
Cheers!
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Thank, Dave! I tried sending the timeline to STP and use its “normalizing” tool, but for some reason, the gap between sentences/words becomes a loud noise. LVTR does a better job. Also, sending the timeline (or even partially) to STP slows down the system. I noticed that the audio is unnecessarily recorded on 16 channels. I’ll try Exporting to AIFF from FCP, then return the AIFF files back to FCP – send to STP and try “fixing” from there without LVTR.
And yes, I have ran out of time…and all I do is start from scratch….very confusing to say the least.
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Thank you!!!
I noticed that my audio output settings of the timeline were set to “stereo”, since it’s only dialogue, I reversed the tracks to mono with “downmixing” off. It was -3dB by default. Shall I keep it @ -3dB?
You guys really help make work more enjoyable…again, thank you!
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sorry about the bad description – this is my first audio. Please see attached screenshots (original & After Levelator). Notice that the bottom peaks are trimmed at -0.90 Is this OK? Many thanks!!
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Dave! I noticed that the frequency waves of the output track from LEVELATOR has been trimmed from the bottom and are flat – am I doing something wrong?
Ok, I’ll set the Normalizing peak to -10dB (or -9).
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Hi Michael,
Thanks for your response. I agree, that’s a thorough approach, but I’m running out of time 🙁
Cheers!
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MANY THANKS, Andy!! readXML works fine 🙂