[Peter Groom]

Hi again.
Id suggest you email Lynn. Send me your email and Ill send you hers. (peter@denefilms.com)
She may well be able to answer, or get John (who wrote the software) to answer your questions, or point you towards a more comprehensive information database on what it can do and how.

All I can say is that I find that re cuts of even the most complex of timelines can be implemented in Pro tools in seconds using VK and then all ive to do is clean up the edits created. It does work. You make an edl of the sequence before the changes, and edl of the sequence after the changes, open the pttools timeline that matches the 1st edl, open VK and import the 2 edls, and VK will analyse the changes, and MOve the Pro tools audio around to its new home in seconds, where it would take hours of error ridden number crunching to do it by hand. Its all about offsets really.

Lynn will be able to point you in the right direction.
Peter

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[Peter Groom]

Personally I have NEVER found ANY recording made by ANY DSLR camera any use other than for syncing up purposes. To have to use it in a mix is highly regrettable.
You will find that the noise floor on these things is horrible, and the processing, AGCs and clipping even worse. Increasing the gain will just, as you have found increase the hiss massively.
Izotope rx can “learn” the hiss out of a mix, but yooull find that a lot of the spoken word that you want to keep will also have frequencies in the hiss area, so the benefits might be limited. If you over push isotope it will go “watery”
I dont think it will save your bacon.

Id also suggest that you take a good look at your setup. Zooms are fine, but what happens when they fail??? Unattended recordings are likely to let you down. batteries run out, things get moved knocked, recording levels arent right (and the auto level in a zoom is completely useless and DANGEROUS) Thats where you are now.
When I do weddings I use radio mics back to my camera, and a proper video camera not a stills camera.
Radio on the Groom, radio on the readings lectern, radio on the vicar as a minimum. I have proper split channel recording, metering and headphones on everything.
AND most importantly of all, ALWAYS have a wired mic nearby. I use a rifle mic on a floor stand only feet from the people. Thats the safetyy and i would NOT be without it.

Good luck but this really emphasises the words of my mentor when I was a tv trainee. Get it right on location. Therell still be plenty to fix in post. If you drop a ming vase down the stairs, no amount of superglue will get it back to its original value.

Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

In the tutorials area of andrew kramers video co pilot site, there is a tut on this Old film look. If you find the tutorial there arer all the download files used in the tut for free. In there there is a old scratchy film work part.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

What do you want to know about VK? Other than it works?
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

This is easy.
NO

Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

We have a Quartz router system which allows both analogue and digital switching of the input and output of any edit suite or VTR. means anything can be patched anywhere on an easy lit touchscreen.
Audio wise, files once mixed are accessed by a Gigabit LAN by any edit suite, or are laid back to tape from sound studio to Racks room.
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

I had a similiar problem and my web searches seemed to point to the fact that HDV is just a bit carp.
Have you tried HDVsplit. Its free, overlooks lots of things AVID and FCP wont, and the files fast import into avid
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

1) are you using a deck or camera to capture?
2) if its a deck, is it getting a sync feed form an SPG
Peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer

[Peter Groom]

HI Brendan
I have to agree with you on all points raised. my AMS was getting tempremental on boot ups when i de commissioned it about 4 years ago.
Funnily this week, I brought it home. Its now in the garage pending its next move / fate. I couldnt bear to chuck it, but i know i have to. Think ill keep the surface as momento. Call it art.
Im freinds with a couple of the ex ams guys on Facebook. Theyre pretty well all gone (the ones who developed and supported it) so the time is past.
But yes it is the fastest editor ive ever bashed. And it so8unded best too, but the advantages of a supported developing product like PT far outweigh the small strengths of the ams in my opinion.
AMS should package and sell as a pt plug in, the source stack concept, cue window and trim window idea. Id pay good money for that in my pt.
Amazingly the SCX is still a current product on the ams website. vety few on the go in the uk now.
Peter

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[Peter Groom]

Yes I think that in general, this piece of software isnt held in high regard. Have you tried Adobe Encore. That seems to be stable and is better respected
peter

Post Production Dubbing Mixer