Rick Mac
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[Isaac Painter] “Besides Sony Vegas what are 2 other professional sound editing programs in use by Major Motion Picture Studios today?”
Strange way to frame a question.
Care to clue us in.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[russell robertson] “is there a quality difference between the old V2.0 and the new Magic Bullet Looks?”
Can’t say since I have not tested the new MB Looks program.
I do have MB V2 and love it. The quality is excellent and the
program is quite tweekable.Regards,Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Russell Robertson] “I have a colleague who is pushing to use Magic Bullet film looks on a project we are collaborating on. Is anyone familiar with this program, and if it produces output any better/worse than the Ultimate S film look options?”
There film emulations are some of the best out there,
however they are cpu intensive. Render times are long but
the results are impressive. Ultimate S emulations are much
faster to render and framerates in the preview monitor are much higher. Ultimate S is a good program and the looks are pretty good. As for the end result I would say that Magic Bullet wins.[Russell Robertson] “Does Magic Bullet Editors v2.0 even work with Vegas 8”
Yes it does. However, Editors V2 is no longer available. It has been replaced with Magic Bullet Looks which does not have a plugin for Vegas yet. However, they do have a stand alone version.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Dave Petteruto] “maybe you can define the issue a little more by looking at it yourself.”
It’s really hard to tell.
Once again I would see if you can
have a local station play it through a TBC
for you. Even if they cannot transfer it,
you will be able to tell if a TBC helps the situation.regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Dave Petteruto] “Do the TBC’s boost the signal coming out of the VCR?”
No. They correct errors.
The site that had the example pictures
has info that will explain exactly
what a time base corrector does.In very general terms, a video signal is very
complex and small errors can have a huge
effect on your picture. TBC’s were developed to
fix these errors.
In TV Production all of our video tape
machines have TBC’s on them.
Unfortunatly consumer VHS does not.[Dave Petteruto] “I am going to check if maybe the local cable studio can help me out.”
Good idea since a TBC won’t fix every type of
problem.[Dave Petteruto] “I’d be interested in purchasing one of the TBC’s”
If you do a lot of this type of thing it would be good
to have one, they can really clean up VHS pictures.
If you are charging folks for your services you
should have one.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Dave Petteruto] “I’m getting a picture, but there are wavy lines in the middle of the screen,”
Sounds like you need need to run the output of your
VHS Machine thru a (TBC) Time Base Corrector.
You might check with a local TV station to see
if they can can help you out.Here is a link to TBC’s for purchase.
https://www.avtoolbox.com/tbcpage.shtmlHere is a link to a page that shows you what
a time base error looks like. Does your video
look like this.https://www.mediacollege.com/video/calibration/tbc/timebase-error.html
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Hollington Lee] “I will need to buy four mics, well-suited for voice, but not singing, just talking i.e. interviews.”
This is a good sounding lav for the money.
It is what I would call a normal size lav.
The pickup pattern is omnidirectional.
Works well in quiet enviroment.https://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=AT803B
This one has a directional pickup pattern
and will help reduce noise in a noisy enviroment.https://www.bswusa.com/proditem.asp?item=AT831B
These two sound good at a very attractive price.
They are not the smallest size on the block.
Do not try to use them outside without some serious
windscreens.If you need a really small lav that almost disappears
this is a good one for the money. I use it a lot
and with a good windscreen I even use it outdoors.https://www.performanceaudio.com/cgi/product_view.cgi?products_id=3547
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
Amen Brother!!!
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
[Terry Esslinger] “Does this mean that when you render a project any muted tracks (either audio or video) do not render? I was under the impression that the mute just worked while working on the project.”
Muted tracks within a project are not rendered out.
They do stay a part of your project file.Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377 -
In the broadcast world video tape machines have what is called a TBC ( Time Base Corrector ) on them. It’s job is to handle those little tape glitches without dropping frames.
VHS can be pretty ruff. Sounds like you are loseing some of
your control track most likely tape edge damage is to blame.If your tape does have damage you are already doing what I would suggest by manually slipping sync back in with editing.
By the way, some of the better analog to dv converters can clean up minor tape hits.
Regards, Rick.
Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377