[Matt Longoria]

Hi,

Thanks for responding. I am running PT 8.0.1 and the card does work for the most part (Card firmware 3.3.2). The issue that I am having is that in pro tools, some videos will not play through my large monitor’s DVI input. If I play the same video in final cut the issue goes away. So I’m wondering what it is the difference in output from the card between Pro Tools and Final Cut.

[Matt Longoria]

Hi Cows,

I know I’m resurrecting an old thread here, but I’m having Digibeta problems that seem to be related to the issues described above. I’m attempting to layback 2 channels of audio via AES onto an A500, from Final Cut Pro using an AJA Pro IO. The Aja and the digibeta deck are both getting reference from a horita black bust generator. The black goes to the Aja’s ref input, then out the loop to the ref input on the deck. The 75 ohm switch by the ref input is set to on. The REF light on the AJA is solid. The Digibeta deck seems to be getting ref too (at least the STOP button isn’t blinking). During layback everything seems OK, audio sounds good and is in synch. However on playback of the tape there are intermittent glitches in the audio, accompanied by “condition red” warnings.

I have tried changing the ref input on the deck from Ref to Input Video and got the same result.

I have done many many laybacks on this setup, and it always works flawlessly. Now all of a sudden I got problems.

If somebody can help I will be forever grateful.

Best,
Matt

[Matt Longoria]

-According to this, in between what numbers should my levels be at? For Dialogue, FX, Music, Tone?

According to the spec your dialog level needs to read -24 plus or minus 1db on a meter that uses the ITU R BS 1770 algorithm. Two meters that use that algorithm are the “Dolby LM100” and the “Dolby Media Meter”. One way many mixers deal with this spec is to mix the dialog first by itself until it reads right on the meter, then mix in fx and music against the dialog to taste.

More info can be found here:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/post-production-forum/361267-how-specs-level-determined.html

and here:

https://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=157057

[Matt Longoria]

I use the waveform redraw trick in Pro Tools as well, but as mentioned it can be a bit unwieldy with a lot of distorted material. You could try this ap:

https://www.izotope.com/products/audio/rx/

The De-Clipper function works really well. The fully functioning free demo will run 30 days I think.