[Mike Browning]

No, these are professional audio monitors, not built into the displays. On one work station, I have Yorkvilles, the other KR8’s… running out of a Presonus interface and the other from a Blackmagic Decklink, respectively. All that to say, it’s the same problem across two different configurations of professional equipment.

Yes, the problem also happens with headphones. Soon as Premiere Pro is the active window, I start getting a low hiss. When I switch to another program (like a Word doc), the hiss goes away. However, the audio devices are being used system-wide, not just Premiere, so I am led to believe the hiss is caused by something within Premiere.

Definitely not a grounding issue, since that would happen regardless of me using program.

This wouldn’t be an issue, except that I can’t always tell whether there is actually noise in part of the audio file or it’s just the program.

Hope that explains my situation. Thanks for any input.

Thanks, Mike B.

[Mike Browning]

Thanks for the quick – albeit abrasive – replies. Didn’t really answer my question though.

1) Bob – Inexpensive is often relative. I’m certainly not looking for top of the line (whose budget really allows for top-of-the-line every time?), but do you have a specific model or two in mind? It has been difficult to find such things as ‘underscan on/off’ in product descriptions. And I am certainly not on my up-and-up about broadcast equipment (I am by no means an engineer). This is why I turn to other pros like yourself.

2) Andrew – not to be smart – but I’m talking about 640×480 graphics… filling the same size screen. The black bars are coming from ‘underscanning’ in which the converter scales the source down. What happens with the stretching is the converter is literally stretching the image out of proportion, for whatever reason. Really makes no sense, but there’s no way to ‘lock’ proportions on this Extron. Also, again, the lines on the edge of keyed frames are coming from the scan converter. Everything coming from our CG sources are clean, professional graphics that key well elsewhere.

Thanks for your responses, seriously, although I’d appreciate a bit more specifics in terms of product recommendations – surely y’all have had a good experience with specific models?

Thanks

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Thanks a ton. I love simply answers 🙂

You’re right about the Pioneer PRV-9000 – not even a used one available. Reckon I’m going with the Panasonic. You’d think this would be a standard option in all DVD recorders.

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Thanks Steve.

Many of my fears are articulated in this thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-1192277.html

I’d hate to boot up in Lion and discover my RAID partition has been destroyed. I also have a RAID 1 for Time Machine system backup. Wouldn’t be an absolute tragedy, but it would sure cost a lot of time.

Anyone on the COW have experience with Lion and their RAID yet?

[Mike Browning]

Sounds like an isolated problem then, rather than some weird combo of drivers and other hardware.

Would a specific driver version fix the issue or would I need a new graphics card? If a new card, then do you have any recommendations that wouldn’t break the bank (Mercury support or not)? Our IT guy bought the 440 that’s in there now, even after showing him the list of CUDA supported cards.

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Sorry, forgot to mention that – it’s up-to-date – v5.03

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

How about your codec settings (even if uncompressed)? Sometimes they can override your comp settings.

[Mike Browning]

You shouldn’t need to deinterlace if you’re just working with computer generated graphics and text. When you deinterlace something that doesn’t need it, AE tries to interpolate lines that aren’t there. That usually causes flickering for me. Check your interpret footage settings.

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

I usually make a solid, add a dark blue/white ramp effect, and lower the opacity. Then I use a video layer or picture as reflection. Simple, but you can pass it off as glass. Match the ramp to fit your scene lighting. Get creative if you need more realism. Precompose this and bring it in to your main comp to shatter it.

Mike Browning

[Mike Browning]

Yea it’s one of the annoying additions in CS3. You have to make sure your solid is selected before you double click on the tool, otherwise it’ll make a new “shape” layer, which you know is different from a mask. Very annoying, I often do a double take when I see those blue outlines (shape) and not the default yellow (mask).

Mike Browning
VisionQuest Media Solutions