Mark Spano
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Red channel condition lights could be all of the above, plus it could be that your deck and your workstation are not referenced to the same clock source. Start with the system setup, make sure that your deck is set to the appropriate resolution/frame rate. Make sure the tape tab for 4 or 8 channels audio is set to what you need. Make sure you’re feeding the correct reference signal to both your deck and workstation. Make sure that signal is terminated at the deck and your workstation. Make sure your deck is set to automatically optimize tracking before every edit. Make sure you’re using a Panasonic device control protocol. That’s about all I can think of off the top of my head, but should be enough to go on. Also, there is a Decks and VTRs forum here at the Cow, where questions like these are perhaps more likely to be addressed. Good luck…
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[Paul Dougherty] “I can do a fast analog-out real-time copy to a Pioneer dvd burner that can’t flag for 16×9 playback”
Another solution – do that, and then rip the contents to a VIDEO_TS folder on your Mac. Then use MyDVDEdit to alter the 16×9 flag, burn another one, and you’ve got an anamorphic DVD.
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Another vote for 30.0 seconds. If start TC is 1:00:00:00, then last frame of video is 1:00:29:29.
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Do you just have a mix for the TV spot? No split tracks? Then no, you won’t be able to do anything with the sound of that VO. If you have split tracks, then you might be able to use De-Verb to reduce the room sound on the voice mic track. It’s hit or miss. You can get a demo of that plugin here. Otherwise, if you have the splits, I would just re-record the VO in a booth to match the rest of it, not the other way around. That’s your options, as I see them, and you can present it to the client that way. You are right that it is unlikely to get both of those sound recordings to sound the same – I have enough difficulty trying to match different mics recorded in the same booth…
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And as Bouke can attest, importing broadcast WAV files into FCP demands that you first choose your Easy Setup for your timebase, then CLOSE FCP. Reopen FCP and THEN import your WAVs. FCP has a problem with importing broadcast WAV files and usually appends whatever timebase it was set to when the application was opened. This will not change until you choose your setup, exit the app, and reopen. Try it with a new project and see if the broadcast WAVs are still showing up with the wrong timebase. In addition, I would recommend getting a hold of Sound Devices Wave Agent software as this will tell you exactly what the WAV file headers say (so you know before having to call your sound recordist)…
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the M2V file (in NTSC) will be 720×480, whether it’s anamorphic or not. It’s up to the authoring software to put this flag in to tell the DVD player to stretch to 16×9. It’s written in the disc code, not the MPEG-2 stream. Very easy to do in DVD Studio Pro – no idea in Toast.
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Good suggestion, but Encore will definitely tell you that’s the case if it is (in the Check Project task). I took the advice of an Adobe forum member and re-encoded my feature to be under 15Mbps – well under the Blu-Ray maximum, since that person said that the error I was getting was a too high bit rate error. This time when I went to build, I got this message: Blu-Ray error: “Access denied”, Code: “12”, Note: “path=/tmp/Sonic6.tmp”. I checked my system at that path and there was no file named Sonic6.tmp on the system. I deleted the other temp files there and tried again and it failed again with the same error. I then checked the permissions for that folder and it was set to System – read/write, but everyone else had read only. I changed the permissions to have the Administrator group (of which my account is a member) to read/write. The next build was successful. Hopefully it sticks…
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Great to hear, Chad. I hope I can come back to this thread when I’m going to upgrade so I can pick your brain about what works. Cheers for your persistence.
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Load the audio track into the viewer. In the waveform view, you can hold shift and drag the playhead in between frames and set a new in point. Then edit back to timeline.
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Chad,
Thanks for posting your detailed solution and results. I intend on upgrading my systems to Snow when I make my switch over from the ailing XSan to our EditShare server some time this year. What you have given me here is a glimmer of hope that frame accuracy consistency is achievable. I hope you have continued success and that it translates over here. I will surely post here with findings when I do. Until then…