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Do you specifically need the VO tool? Why not record a clean VO track into Logic or Sound Track Pro. Both will support a qt file as a reference video.
Also fitting and cleaning up a VO will be quicker in a proper audio tool. Export the final track all nicely EQ’ed and Dynamics processed and drop in FCP.
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You are using Compressor to do a standards convert from 29.97 to 25. My personal preference would be to find a facility that can run it through something like a Teranex to do the frame rate conversion. Preferably they can go straight to a real time encode of the mpeg with your specs. With multiple 22 minute shows, it will save days of rendering and look better.
The mpeg settings in Compressor look right. If you want to go with the software convert, I suggest a small sample would be a good idea. With frame controls set to the highest quality, it will take a long time render these files. Before you invest weeks of rendering, send your small test to the Russians and ask them to confirm that the mpeg file settings are correct.
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“No responses to my first post – thought I’d try again… 🙂 ”
That’s poor forum etiquette. While you wait, try searching the COW for the hundreds of previous posts here that discuss, at length, techniques for standards conversion and best workflow to go from an HD FCP project to SD DVD.
Unfortunately you are not the first person to suffer poor production workflows. Shooting the wrong frame rate used to be a capital offense.
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Thanks for the clarification Shane. I have been lucky to avoid DVCProHD for most of my career.
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I was hoping your second post might contain some info on how you are monitoring. My guess is a phase problem which could be in your monitoring chain or in the camera recording.
Meanwhile, try checking your pan settings on the captured footage. Are the channels panned hard left/ right or centered? If centered try panning left/ right and see if that makes the audio clear. If so then it means that the audio is identical on both tracks but out of phase which cancels the signal although not perfectly as it is mpeg audio off an HDV camera.
Now to determine if the problem is in the camera footage or your system, drop a bit of bars & tone in the timeline and pan the tone to center. Does it cancel (it should cancel perfectly). If yes then there is a problem in your monitoring chain. If not then pull down the audio level on one track.
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Does this help?
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1080288
Searching the forums is always a good idea.
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You need to convert the SD timeline into DVCProHD. There are many ways to do this. Personal preference would be to export a QT movie using current settings.
Bring that file into Compressor and make a 1280 x 720p quicktime. Drop that into a matching sequence and then do the playout to tape. This should scale everything correctly and convert the anamorphic timeline into a square pixel 1280 x 720.
Compressor does a better job of scaling the image up from SD to HD.
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FCP is a limited audio tool. Sound track Pro is better.
The basic characteristic of getting that ‘next door’ sound from a clean recording is the combination of EQ and room reverb.
Walls attenuate high frequencies so you want an EQ that shelves off the hi frequencies above 2khz. Also play with bass frequencies. It might sound more natural to roll off low frequencies but add a bump around 400hz
The dialog also needs reverb – not a big cathedral sound but a tight live room. Again STP is more likely to have the reverb tools to do this. Although I have FCP I also have Fairlight with VST plugins and convolution reverbs so this sort of thing is a piece of cake, but not easy in FCP.
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What are the details of your sequence settings and what has been your workflow to get from that to the DVCPro HD sequence?
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Like many of these types of camera on the market, the camera file format is H264 which isn’t an edit codec. Like the Canon 5D etc the files have to be converted to an edit codec first. Care must be made with frame rates and audio sample rates.
Search this forum for Canon 5D as specific instruction on how to convert this footage has been covered many times.