[Matt Campbell]

No thoughts out there on this one? Its easy to change the settings, but I thought with XML, you shouldn’t have to!

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks for the response Richard. I should have been more clear on a few things, my apologies. Yes the c100 records uncompressed in the AVCHD format, however just about every set I’ve ever been on records dual system sound. Both to the camera and an audio recorder, which 99% of the time is a high end Sound Devices recorder. Even though they are shooting with Red, Arri or anything high end, they are still capturing back ups to the audio recorders.

Since we’re a bit low budge over here, we finally purchased the SD 302. And while we will send that feed to the c100, I’m simply wondering if we can still utilize our Zoom to capture as a back up. More importantly, how would you do so, maintaining separate channels vs. a mix down coming out of the 302, say via the TA3 Tape Out. Can that be separated out via a splitter cable and taken into the Zoom’s 1 & 2 inputs?

Often times we record the interview with Boom & LAV or if 2 people, 2 LAVs, so we need to keep the channels separate.

Thanks again for your comments. And any further help is also appreciated.

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[Matt Campbell]

What NLE do you use? Premiere Pro comes with Audition which does a pretty decent job with this. Audacity is good for freeware, but other pro apps will give you much greater control.

Noise reduction isn’t always a good thing to use, it can often make things sound worse if you’re not careful. Try noise reduction with some EQ or notch filtering afterwards. You won’t be able to get rid of it, but you can def. reduce it.

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[Matt Campbell]

I guess another question would be if you speed up that conformed 24p footage, will that playback cleanly? Meaning, think of shooting in 24p and slowing that down, which I don’t like to do because your then creating new frames, giving a crappy sloMo look. But whats the opposite of that for this scenario?What is Premiere actually doing to the footage. Is it throwing frames away to speed up the footage? Will body motion look ok?

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[Matt Campbell]

There used to be freeware called Audicity. You might be able to find it. Its decent, as far as freeware is concerned. But your better off with the higher end gear. You’ll have greater control.

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[Matt Campbell]

Morning Sade, at least morning here in the eastern states! Sorry it took so long to get back to you. If you recorded in Stereo mode and can’t hear anything, the levels may be too low. You could boost them with something like STP or Audition (I’ve since switch over all post projects to Adobe CS6 and love it). There are tons of similarities. Anyway, when you playback on the Zoom, where are your -db meters bouncing? If at all! If you have some level there above say -30, you’ll probably have something to work with. Although starting out with a soft level like that and boosting it in post, will add noise. Its obviously best to start with a clean -db level. I generally record anywhere from -18 to -10 db. And when I mix for web, keep levels under -4 db. Broadcast is different & varies depending where you are.

Blah blah blah, anyway, what NLE are you using to edit? If Premiere, you’ll have Audition. If Final Cut X, I’m sure there’s something built in to help, though I’m not familiar. Avid? ProTools? Sony Vegas?

When hooking up external mics to the Zoom, you can record in Stereo mode or 4CH. I will generally use 4CH. This keeps the on-board Stereo mics active for reference audio and Inputs 1 & 2 for LAV and Boom mics. You could use Stereo Mode as well, but just select 1&2 on the Zoom. This will turn off the on-board mics.

For 4Ch recording, set up your Zoom to record in 4Ch mode. Under record, select WAV 48kHz, 24bit (16bit is okay too, but higher bit depth allows for greater control in post with effects and cleaning up the audio). However, most of your outputs will be 16 bit, like broadcast. Then go into the Input Menu, go down to Link 1/2 and change this to off (you can do this for Stereo Mode as well). This will take your inputs from the bottom (1&2) and make them mono files vs one blended/mixed stereo file. Although your on-board stereo mics, will still result in a stereo file.

Once in post with your NLE or audio software, your need to extract the inputs 1 & 2 and convert them to mono files. The files in your Finder will have an “I” suffix.wav. Ex. 4CH002I.wav. Your stereo files will have an “M.” 4CH002M.wav. Leave these alone and only convert the “I” files to 2 mono tracks. Save them as mono files and your all set. Edit and mix away!

Sorry for the long winded message, just trying to be thorough. Because, believe me, I’ve been there!

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[Matt Campbell]

Same here. But using Premiere CS6. I too have a Decklink Studio Card. I have audio from the card to my Mackie 802 and I also have a loop back from my external FSI monitor out, back into the Mackie. Both are off by about 2-3 frames.

Its funny, because once I export a quicktime h.264 for reference, its spot on. Just not able to figure out how to fix in Premiere.

I’m was wondering if my external RAID was an issue, but getting speeds of 280mbps, it shouldn’t be.

Playback is 1080p29.97, fully rendered in timeline at full quality. Just don’t get it.

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[Matt Campbell]

Thanks everyone for the input. We just ordered (2) refurbed i7 iMacs. I wanted to new, but they wanted to save a few bucks, bummer. Downside is we didn’t get the SSD, which we’ll upgrade later if possible, fingers crossed, nor the 780m GFX card. So we’ll have to see how the 775m performs.

That being said, we are getting two TB, 2 slot PCIe chassis’s for our eSata cards (external storage) & BMD cards. Do even get me started as I pushed for TB storage and TB I/O, but no go. Shane I believe you mentioned about possibly tossing in a better GFX card to a PCIe TB chassis. How will that work with having 2 GFX cards? Does the machine recognize it and will be able to utilize it properly. Or did I misunderstand you. I’m not saying we’ll do this, but if the NVIDIA 775m lacks in horsepower, and its possible, it’d be nice to know this is an option for the future.

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[Matt Campbell]

Ah crystalize was doing that. I thought the levels was growing that out. I’m still tweaking, but I’ve since reworked a bit because I agree about the believability of a brand just appearing and bleeding in. So I’ve mimic’d the stamp and have the logo soft and faded as it becomes more sharp and defined. All the while the layer underneath, I used the vector art, removed the fill, and just used a black stroke outline. The using a combination of things to create the bleeding scorch marks. I have to keep this subtle as to not mess with the legibility too much. But we’re liking this better.

How’s this? Its easier to see on my 1080 project, but gives you the idea. The fill of the logo only darkens a little but the background scorch darkens more growing outward giving the effect of the burn.

brand iron 2

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[Matt Campbell]

Simon, the project makes sense for the most part, but I just can’t figure out how to apply what you did to create that bleeding burn feel to my logo. Your base later in the inner part of your logo and the 1 above with the image mask is for the outter part of the logo, the part that spreads outward.

Here’s where I am. Its ok, but want to get that branded feel you have vs. a saturating ink splotch type feel. The problem I’m having is the the logo was created in photoshop with different layer styles and rasterized out. So I have 3 layer of that logo in MOTN. highlights, actual logo and wind burned shadows to help sell the burn in. let me know what you think.

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