Phil Balsdon
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That will definitely help. Every time you halve the distance between the mic and the source you improve the audio level of the source by four times.
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Background “hiss” when recording sound on an HDSLR is common. This is due to the poor quality of the audio pre-amps in the cameras.
Recording at a lower db setting in the camera won’t get rid of the hiss, when you lift the levels in post they’ll just come back up with the foreground levels.
Solutions are to record audio through a Juicelink or Beachtek adaptor on the camera or better still dual record the audio on a separate digital audio recorder such as a Tascam DR-100 or Zoom H4 and re-sync with Plural Eyes in post or manually using a slate or clap at the beginning or end of each take.
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I have just installed Resolve 9 Lite onto my MacPro 4.1, OSX 10.6.8.
Successfully exported an FCP XML from Premiere Pro CS6. (Apple ProRes sequence).
Opened this in Resolve without issues and did the grade. Rendered this out (after being advised that Enable Flat Pass button needs to engaged to disable Flat Pass, yes the button is labeled Off on the other right side… but double negatives??).
Exported an XML from Resolve to the same folder as the rendered files, imported the folder into Premiere Pro CS6. Opened sequence – all fine.
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JVC shoots HDV, about the same as DV.
Drive speed tests all from my MacPro (Stress set at 5Gb for all). Drobo and Lacie connected via FW800. Internal RAID is 2 Hitachi 2Tb 7,200 Deckstars (same as in my DROBO).
You might also like to check this post. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1156502
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Your problem could be the Drobo. They are designed to be storage drives and are not suitable for video editing,
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Try this, you’ll need to register at 4 shared to download it.
https://www.4shared.com/file/_CfkTcJI/CE1100X.html
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A 32Gb card holds 80 mins of footage at 50mbps (1080p 25fps) (Cameras highest quality)
Use the Canon XF Utility to back up your cards to the computer. This completes the task in about 6 – 8 times faster than real time.
It also enables you to preview all the footage (Quicktime will not)Installing XF Utility on your edit machine also installs the plug in necessary to log and transfer footage into FCP as your choice version of ProRes.
The log and transfer process is also very quick (again much faster than real time, for me about 4 x faster than real time on a MacPro 2.8 Quad), especially if you have experienced the H264 process from Canon HDSLRs.Premiere Pro has a specific setting for Canon XF and another for XDCam. Files can be brought in natively using the XF setting with needing to render.
The Canon website has a downloadable plug in for AVID, but I have no experience with Avid so unsure why there is a specific plug in.
Tip. Use the camera’s Canon C Log scene style, it’ll give you the best results in post for grading, some of the other settings are very contrasty and or over saturated. The Magic Bullet LUT Buddy plug in can be used in FCP with LUTs that you can find along with some good info over at the Abelcine blog.
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Did you format the first card in the camera before shooting? Or did it come from another camera?
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I’ve noticed it seems to take the import a while for the audio to catch up and fully load. That is when I bring in a long take at first the audio doesn’t play, then if I scroll through to the end of the take it will play the video without sound. Leaving it to fully import it eventually catches up.
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You can also use the “New Image” facility in “Disk Utility” to create a full copy of the CF card. You can give this .img a new name for archiving purposes, but when opened it will have the original card name. You can use this method with all card stored media.
The Canon C300 comes with XF Utility software on a disc. With this you can use its “Backup” function to backup a full copy of the card to a location you set in the Preferences. XF Utility is very quick at creating a full back up (much faster than the disc utility method) and can be downloaded from the Canon website; follow links from this explanation of all it’s functions. https://learn.usa.canon.com/resources/blogs/2012/20120223_xf_utilities_and_plugin_updates.shtml
Of course after making the first copy you should then copy another version to another drive.
Not making a FULL copy of the card is it bit like way back when you took your photo film to a mini lab for processing and then throwing the negs away when you get them back.
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