[Philip James]

Thank you Michael

Where did you see the statement about 96K? I wonder if it is just relating to being able to work with 96k files on import and edit, which it did already, rather than 96k export which I need. It would be good to know more.

Phil

[Philip James]

According to tech support Resolve will only export at 48k. Media Composer might be able to export at 96k but it’s not clear whether it does a prior convert to the project sample rate first which has a maximum of 48k other than with specific hardware which I don’t have. All much more complicated than I had hoped..

[Philip James]

Thanks. These files will be for download. My client would like 48k and 96k versions but neither Avid Media Composer or Resolve will output the latter. I am providing ProRes 4444 to give them a really high quality master of each sequence.

[Philip James]

Thank you – that’s good to know. What would you use instead for digital download files, not broadcast? What ProRes output do you think would work best?

[Philip James]

Thanks. These files are not for broadcast but will be digital art downloads – there will be clients with very different requirements and some may request 96k audio. I have created the sound-design for each sequence at 96k in MOTU’s Digital Performer and then imported into Media Composer for sync with my video.

[Philip James]

Have now heard from Blackmagic that Resolve only exports as 48k, regardless of source files.

[Philip James]

Thanks Vince

I didn’t realise that these video playback options could all work with multiple audio tracks. I already have a MOTU 8M for audio output so I’m covered on that side. I guess the big question is whether I run the audio from a DAW and sync it via SMPTE to my video file or whether I run a multitrack video file and route the tracks to different outputs.

[Philip James]

I’m working on that and they say they can supply it but I wanted to do an offline with the mp4 for now. They are not my client as such – it was my performance and they were shooting it for the festival. I imagine the screw up was caused when someone converted to .mp4.

[Philip James]

I suspect that ‘variable frame rate ‘ was selected when they did the .mp4 conversion.

[Philip James]

Thank you.

I agree with you. However this was not shot on a phone. This was a multi-camera shoot by a professional production company at a music festival. Maybe their conversion of the performance screwed things up. I’m not sure. I’m trying to get a higher res conversion. I will try and find out more about how I ended up with 25.03 fps clips. Quicktime can play them fine though – in sync – is that because it can work at variable frame rates?

Phil