Rick Mac
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Marc,
I would eliminate some steps in my workflow.
Capture the HDV 720p stream via firewire and either convert it then and there to DV files, or better yet keep the entire project HD until render time. The quality would be better doing the latter if your computer is fast enough. Perhaps, using the Cineform codec, edit, all in HD then render to SD.
I just think that I would let Vegas handle the down scaleing
and the pulldown.According to the book “HDV what you need to know”, the best way to handle HDV to SDV is to keep your project HD until render time.
Regards, and keep good luck.
Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Can you post your Vegas project settings and
the settings used for your DVDA Mpeg render.Thanks.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
I’m betting your field order has been reversed somewhere in the chain.
Did you do any pan/crop of clips or the project.
Sometimes this can mess up your field order and simply
adjusting on click (field) up or down in pan/crop can remedy the problem. (Make sure sync to cursor is not selected) when you make the adjustment or you will not affect the entire clip. Only do this to clips that you pan/cropped.
Also track motion can have the same affect on your field order.That would be my first try.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Chris,
Audacity just does have what we need.
I created a clipped waveform and the click-pop removal just does not help us. I was holding out hope that it might. Audacity’s tool is designed for click removal for old records.Go ahead and email me a couple of clips and I will see how Audition handles the task. I have had good results with it in the past.
Later…Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Chris,
I downloaded Audacity and took a look.
The “remove click & pop” tool may fix some light wavefrom distortion. You have to zoom in real tight on the waveform and highlight the area where the waveform is flatten out.
Then run the “remove click & pop” tool (look under effects). You will have to do this for every instance where the waveform is distorted.The tool looks a bit limited but who knows it may help.
By the way, before you purchase anything post me a a few seconds of a bad clip and a light clip.
For really bad clips there is little that can be done.
Better to know that before you drop some cash.
An MP3 file is fine.
Email me with attached file.I will evaluate it and see if the tools in Audition can remedy your worse case file.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Chris,
Sorry for the delay. Tonight was date night with my wife.
Audition does have the tools needed. Soundforge has some additional tools that help automate the process of finding all of your clipped waveform locations and dropping a marker to help you locate areas that need help.I’m not sure if Audacity has the needed tools.
I will look it over in the next few minutes and post back.I tried the youtube address but could not find your file.
How quickly do you need to fix your project?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
I don’t beleive that a compressor will resolve you “static” problem. What a compresor does is to reduce your dynamic range (makes the volume more consistant).
What you have is a digital over caused by recording at to high of a level. In digital audio, renever you hit 0 on your meter that is as loud as you can go. What occurs then is a flattening of the waveform and distortion (static).
To get rid of the distortion you must use tools like the tools in Soundforge (or other audio editing program) to fix your distorted wavefrom peaks.
Since I am at lunch right now I will have to wait till later to get into specifics.
Modest compression is good to average out your volume but will not help your pops, static, distortion.
Do you own anything like Soundforge, Audition?
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Grazie] “”Ignore 3rd Party Codecs””
Refers to the DV codec only.
When you select “ignore third party codecs” Vegas uses it’s own version of the DV codec which is quite a good one compared to others.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
That’s an easy question.
1) Purchase a current dual-core computer. The fastest badest
one that I could afford.2) Vegas Pro-8 baby.
3) Then when I had some more dough, start adding some neat
plugins.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Datavideo DAC-200
I have one and it works very well.
Since it is a bidirectional device you can hook up
a video minoitor to it and during playback from
the vegas timeline it will output video to your video
monitor.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377