Mark Spano
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I only have experience with the 280 Pro, not the 215, but I can tell you that they are the most isolated headphone I’ve ever used (outside of air traffic controller ear isolators). There’s a claim on Sennheiser’s site about 32dB ambient noise attenuation for the 280 Pro, and no claims for the 215 other than ‘excellent attenuation’. Not knowing much more about them, I think the 280 Pro is cheap enough (usually around $80) to borrow or buy to try. If it doesn’t help much, then it’s time to call Sony about their headphone output on the camera.
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2¢ here: what you’re looking for (in a spec) is impedance. The lower the impedance, the louder the headphones will be at a given volume. The efficiency of the drivers is a factor, but not nearly as much as impedance. Impedance is a given value in Ohms (Ω) – the phones you currently have are 32 Ohm. That is a fairly low value, so I wouldn’t expect that the Sony MDR (63 Ω) would be any louder at the same volume level. I think in your case you may be better off looking at a more isolating headphone like the Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. Even though the impedance is around the same as the Sony pair, the isolation of these headphones is very good comparatively. That might block out enough outside noise so that at the same volume level you’ll be able to hear better.
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Yes they can flake out from time to time. Mostly on systems that have multiple user accounts, I have found. Sometimes users submit batches and between the batch process and users logging in and out, QMaster gets confused. A job that is running will hang, or even sometimes a job will finish but still present itself to QMaster as ‘not done’. Then, no other jobs will be processed, or will have other issues. That command, to reset and cancel jobs, clears the QMaster queue for all users. At least that’s what I gather happens when I hit it.
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Simple solution for me is always this:
Go to Compressor.
Click here:
Tell it to Reset and cancel jobs
Wait a minute.
Then send your batch.
Clears up the problem every time (for me)…
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[dorit grunberger] “Compressor has decided to fail all my compressions (not related to the above problem at all), even ones that worked just fine a day ago. Error -120.”
Don’t know what that error means, but any time Compressor errors out on my compressions, I usually just go into the app, click on the Compressor menu, and choose Reset Background Processing. From there, I choose Reset and cancel jobs. Then I’m good to go.
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You can probably get away with using MPEG Streamclip for this. It does a very nice MP4 encode. Open your file in MPEG Streamclip and choose Export to MP4. Try these values:
No place for VBR in there, but it should come close to what you want (for free).
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SR tapes are 12 channels of audio at 24 bit / 48 kHz.
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Nice. I’m in the process of upgrading 11 HD systems at the office to PT9HD/Snow (from PT7/Tiger/G5). I just recently got an i7 iMac myself and upgraded to PT9/003 (from PT5LE/001). I even managed to get an upgrade from my 001 (which I thought was at this point a boat anchor) to a 003 with PT8LE, which I crossgraded to PT9. I love that I don’t have to pay for the DV Toolkit to get timecode and AAF support with 9. That was enough reason for me to pay the crossgrade price. I’ll keep my surround projects at the office though – strictly stereo stuff at home…
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Thanks for the clarification on my clarification. I think I was just thinking of the classic DVToolkit, not realizing what was added in DVToolkit2. Good thing they’re simplifying the line – I use this stuff everyday and even I didn’t know!
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Just for clarity:
PT9 incorporates all of the features of PT8 + DVToolkit without having to buy a license for DVToolkit (i.e. DVToolkit is phased out with the introduction of PT9).
PT9 does not incorporate the features of the Complete Production Toolkit. For that, you need a license for the Complete Production Toolkit (either CPT + PT8 or a new CPT2 license).