[Kent Smith]

Sorry to hear that. I’ve been on location the past week, so this may be too late. But sounds like it may be the same problem I had, but I was never quite sure what the problem was. We went over it several times, and finally plugged directly into the camera, and did not use the mixer the day we were having problems. We had two mikes, one we put on the camera and set for a mid-range or bit low, the other was on a boom and set to auto.
But this is not a good set up, as I talked to an audio guy later. He said to double check that everyting was set to line, mixer and camera. He felt that we had a setting in the camera that was for microphone, and a mixer set at line.
And there may be some audio setting in the menu you have to make sure are at the line level.
The next day we double checked everything, and did some tests and it was fine. Seemed like we had it set up the same way on both days, so I have no clue why one day it sounded like ocean waves and the next it was fine.
Also double check that your mixer has phamtom power. If not, make sure the battery in the mic is okay. That could also cause that problem.
Good luck

[Kent Smith]

This sounds like what needs to be re-set in my camera. Thanks. Let me know when you can.

[Kent Smith]

I’ll go over it again, but I’m using the same set up on a Panasonic HVX200, and it’s fine. But not with the Sony EX1. That’s what’s baffling me. I’ll double check on the tone levels, that may be what’s different. Thanks.

[Kent Smith]

Could be, but I believe we started with everything set to mic, and switched to line. Sound out of the mixer and the audio levels into the camera all looked good, but when you listen to it out of the camera to headphones or after the clip has been loaded into FCP, it’s distorited. But I’ll do another all mic setting test to see if that helps.

Thanks

[Kent Smith]

I thought the p2 MXF wrapping was still coming out, so it’s a bit confusing what, exactly, CS3 is cuurently supposed to be suporting. I tried ProCoder, and it only sees the footage as white frames. But the Vericam is a solid studio camera, so I’m surprized PP can’t support it.

[Kent Smith]

I’ve had the same problem too, but it’s only some of the time. and it seems to be the cineform transions. I’ve found that when I open a problem sequence, I select all, delete the entire sequence, then hit undo restoring the entire sequence, and all the transisions come back. I have to move the mysterous “offline” clips to another track, then undo, and poof! they’re back. But when you have a large sequence and a lot of transisions this can be a pain. And the rendered sections nevercome back, even though the render files are still there, in the same folder with other rendered sections that do play correctly.

Also, I doubt the corrupt file idea. It’s some kind of bug. I can open a project, correct everything, exit PP CS3, and when I re-open the project, the same problem exits.

I did just recently get a solution for the problem with the m2t files not loading (the [..\..\Src\Time.cpp-105] error issue). Somone disovered that the cineform file CFQTImporter.prm (in the cineform folder in the plugin’s folder). It’s got to be renamed or deleted.

I wonder if something similar is happening here.

Also, has anyone noticed that if you submit a problem to Adobe, and you say you re-intalled CS3 and the problem still persists, they then tell you to to re-install CS3?

[Kent Smith]

I’m cutting and exporting M2t files, and they look very good. I also export CineForm HD avi files, and can’t really tell the difference. Just make sure you have Cineform’s AspectHD and either Premiere Pro 1.5 left on, or move the HDV folder from its (1.5) program files over to PPro 2.0 or CS3 program files. That’s the folder that holds the m2t encoding programs. Also, I have a problem importing m2t files I just exported back into CS3, but PPro 2.0 still imports them fine. I set up Adobe HDV projects, not Cineform because I still have a major problem with color shift in the preview monitor with Cineform projects.

Also, when I export, I have the video option on progressive scan, and don’t de-interlace the footage when I’m cutting. You also might want to turn off the default frame blend in video options. I’ve noticed that causes some flickering.

Hope that helps.

[Kent Smith]

yeah, it’s a pain. I still haven’t been able to get rid of it, and I tried to calibrate the overlay, but I have a different card. I hae the nvidia 8800 GTS (system is dual xeon on a supermicro motherboard), which is a great card. And the issue is ONLY with AspectHD. I do not get a red shift when I edit something in an Adobe HDV project. So I don’t think it’s soley a card issue. When I open 2 windows media windows, and use the same footage, I do see a shift in the first window I open. So there is something going on. But when I try to calibrate the video card, it only allows me to adjust for each monitor…and there is no overlay setting, and no overlay comes up in Nvidia’s search in their help program. So as of yet, I still have never cut a project in an aspecthd program. And I’m not chaning the video card because Aspecthd can’t get it’s act together. The option is still use PPro CS3 and 2.0 in HDV projects.

[Kent Smith]

Thanks. I’ll try to calibrate the overlay card to see if that helps. The loading an old 2.0 project in CS3 is tied with the m2t files, would be my guess. It’s the same error code.

[Kent Smith]

David,

I was going to put a post about the preview color shift in AspectHD projects in PPro 2.0 and CS3. I actually DID discuss this and some other issues with Cineform Support, and other AHD problems I’ve been having, like notbeing able to import m2t files into a PPro CS3 project (I get a [../../SRC time.ccp-105] error code. Same as when I try to open a PPro 2.0 project in PPro CS3.

I got nothing in response, and was actually told to check out Adobe support….but here, I read someone else is having exactly the problem.

I read your response, but I’m still confused. I’m not sure how to calibrate the Nvidia card, and I’ve tried every option in AspectHD…and NOT having video playback makes for very tough editing. I’ll play around with it, but I have been cutting HDV in PPro hdv projects, not AspectHD for that very reason — the huge color shift in video preview. Also, everyone time I reload PPro CS3 I lose every AspechHD effect, like cross dissolove or page turn.