[Leigh Harrington]

Okay, so here is an update on this situation. After my post in Sept. I was swamped with projects and put the G-Tech drive issues aside for a while, but now I am back at it.
When I plug the G-Tech drives in they won’t mount on the desktop. If I go to disk utility I can see the top level of the drive, but I can’t run any repair, erase or anything else on the drive because all of the options are grayed out. I took one of the drives home and it mounted fine on that computer (snow leopard). I recently tried plugging three different drives in on a different Mac Pro at work (snow leopard), but none of them will mount there and again all I can see in disk utility is the top level of the drive with the same specs I mentioned above. Any ideas? These drives still have files on them. I will try taking a couple home tonight to see if I can clear one, reformat it and then see if it will mount on work computers. I would appreciate any advice you can give.

[Leigh Harrington]

Sorry Marc, I wish I could sing well enough to tour my way around Baton Rouge 😉

[Leigh Harrington]

Thanks so much TY! I’ll contact Jason and see what he can tell us about it. Also loved the video.

Thanks again,
Leigh

[Leigh Harrington]

Thanks Tom. That helped. If I add the notes via the browser, where is the information stored? In other words, are these comments added to the master clips or only in that project file? In vegas, I would add comments via the trimmer so that the comments would stay connected with the original media since we tend to repurpose a lot of our material. I’ve heard that you have to be very careful with FC modifying the master clips because it can get you into a lot of trouble. Any truth to that?

[Leigh Harrington]

Do you mind telling me what Brand your laptop is?

[Leigh Harrington]

Do you mind telling me what Brand your laptop is?

[Leigh Harrington]

I am considering buying a laptop with Vista on it and would like to run Vegas 8. Have you had any experience with running 8 on a laptop with Vista — in other words am I asking too much of a laptop? It has 2GB RAM and a 200GB Hard Drive. Also, you’re not the first person I’ve heard say that some of Vista’s bells and whistles just get in the way. Can you elaborate on what should/could be turned off?

thanks!

[Leigh Harrington]

Well,
I had some time to record a little during another shoot. My primary concern at this point is audio level. I was recording a boom mic and a lav. I could get a strong signal for the boom but not until I had the level at about 2 o’clock and the sensitivity all the way up. The Lav had to be maxed out just to get to -20dB. The limiter switch was in the off position. We’ve never had a problem with the Lav before so I don’t think it’s a mic problem. Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help!

[Leigh Harrington]

Well,
I had some time to record a little during another shoot. My primary concern at this point is audio level. I was recording a boom mic and a lav. I could get a strong signal for the boom but not until I had the level at about 2 o’clock and the sensitivity all the way up. The Lav had to be maxed out just to get to -20dB. The limiter switch was in the off position. We’ve never had a problem with the Lav before so I don’t think it’s a mic problem. Am I missing something?

Thanks for your help!

[Leigh Harrington]

Thanks Spot,

We are recording a panel of eight speakers. It should look like a cozy chat (people in cushie chairs, etc) rather than a conference panel, so we would like to give each speaker their own mic — 4 between two cameras and 4 via the R-4 Pro. The plan thus far is to use wired lavs. We were planning to connect via a BNC cable (any concerns there?). I’ve heard some debate over using a sampling frequency of 44.1 versus 48. Any opinions on that?