Kevin Knutson
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Haha, the shady Audio Forum, where no video professional has gone before.
Spot on analogy of the ‘out of focus’ footage. I am very aware of the difficulties of fixing poor audio, but ya know, just hoping there might be a few tricks of the trade.
And, seriously, was not trying to be a jerk about the ‘dont patronize me’ business, but you know how forums can be. Everyone is quick to tell you what you SHOULD have done, and reserved to tell you what you COULD do.
Thanks for the tip about VO. I’ve had to do worse fixes than that before, so we’ll see what flies after rough cut.
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Thanks Peter,
Yeah, not much to be done it seems. There will indeed be music to cover some of it, however, the thorn is, this gentleman’s clip will be surrounded by other high fidelity, great sounding audio from other interviewees (shot separately). I’d drop him form the edit, but of course he’s the founder of the organization (the Client). What a pain.
Is Isotope rx similar to Soundsoap 2? Been using that with great effect when removing room tones and HVAC, but doesn’t handle too great for this clip.
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Are the :90 clips consistent (as in, are they ALL exactly the same length, or just roughly?). Do you have access to a second deck? Perhaps you can tape to tape duplicate and see if a fresh tape helps?
Have you run the ol basic FCP flu shot? That is trashing preferences, empty caches, etc.
What version of FCP are you running, and what are your computer stats? What deck are you using, and how is it going in to FCP.
Give us all those glorious details.
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Dave is right that your images are too small, but that shouldn’t give you the jumps that so frequently occur in FCP. Try what he says about motion (or after effects), but perhaps also try bringing your images in and PNGs or tiffs rather than JPEGs (im guessing?). FCP hates JPEGs it seems.
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You can use the “monitor out” BNC connection, found just next to the DC power. Might have to convert from BNC to RCA if your monitor doesn’t have the BNC.
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Also, can you monitor the sped up tape on a deck without capturing it? Does it play fine straight out of the deck, but the issue is after the capture?
Our company had some highschool drop off a bunch of bad tape loaded with timecode breaks and the like. And of course when we asked, “what frame rate, etc” they gave us a stare and said, “whatever the default, I think”. Sigh.
Anyway, after trying several times to capture, we had to play the tape through the deck into quicktime pro, and save it that way, rather than an actual capture into FCP. Seemed to work.
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Yeah, it seems FCP might be up to its old tricks again. I hope the recapture works for you. If not, there may be some methods to cheat it right.
Good luck.
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Yeah, fresh tape or not, this happens all the time with HDV and MiniDV stock. Try capturing the portion of the tape (giving it a lot of time on both ends of the clip) without “making a new clip” during the transfer.
Another chance, I know it seems odd, plug the camera VTR into the deck, and try to make a new copy of the tape in question. Sometimes they play better than they capture and you may be able to smooth over the break in the copy.
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However, keep in mind that lens physics alter image characteristics. So if you’re going for a fully “real” look, remember that DOF becomes shallower as you zoom into the foreground. Subtle but surely.
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Sounds like timecode breaks. HDV and miniDV are highly prone to timecode issues. And sometimes, the tape can capture just fine the first time or so, but with degradation, the breaks appear.
Or is the issue that the footage was already captured fine, and after the upgrade the clips have been altered?