Rob Neidig
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It seems to me that with the straight-line tops that this waveform displays, that it is not an overload of the mic element. It almost certainly is the input recording level to the audio device. If the recording levels were properly set, and the mic element was overloaded, you would not get the chopped off tops on the waveform, even though you would be getting a distorted sound. So I would look at his audio input levels to the recorder, or at your input levels to your editing software.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
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I’ll second (or third or fourth or wherever we are) the idea of using Taiyo Yuden (now JVC) or other high quality DVD-Rs.
There isn’t any chance you put a paper label on the DVD is there? That also plays havoc with some players.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
Steve,
The “grab” part is easy. Just select the part you want to duplicate and copy, then paste onto the end. The tough part is the “sustain”. The best you can hope for in a situation like that is to take the last part that you want to “sustain” and apply reverb to it. That’s not really a sustain, but just a hit with a reverb tail. If that works, great, but there really is no good way to make a chord sustain longer than it is. The very nature of it means that the chord is played, and immediately begins to fade down in volume. If you can grab a bit of it where the volume is consistent and keep pasting that into the middle of the chord to get it to hang on longer before starting to fade, that can work, but it is very hard to make that sound natural. Depending on how the chords were played (choppy vs. long sweep of pick across strings, for instance, not the actual notes or anything), then using a time stretch effect might help. Stretch the chord out and then fade it gradually away.
Hope this helps at all. Without hearing what you’re working with it’s hard to say for sure, but doing this kind of thing is usually tough. Much easier to replace the ending with a new one (i.e. re-recording), or copy it from somewhere else in the piece, if such a thing exists.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
You had me at “hackles”.
Actually a very insightful post, Mark. I hope people are motivated to at least try to educate their clients and increase the actual, as well as perceived, value of what we do.
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
It sounds like you’re having some sort of issue, because you should be able to get better quality, like Eric mentions. But remember, if you are starting with a VOB, you are starting with video that has already been compressed. Converting it to a Quicktime file, then editing it, and possibly compressing it AGAIN to go back to DVD or to the web, will result in continuing degradation of the video. If you can start from the actual source file, you will get much better end results.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
Shlomi,
Unfortunately the DVD spec does not allow for audio to run continuously when you change menus. It will always start playing the audio from the new menu.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
Wow, what a blast from the past. I worked for Sony Digital Authoring Services when DVD first started. The original DVD burners (Pioneer 101?) cost around $16,000! Then the 201 came out and I believe initially sold for around $7000. Those DVD-Rs for authoring were spendy, too. About $50 each as I recall. We were always reluctant to burn quick check discs until we were SURE everything would check out o.k., just because the $$ would add up. Now you can do the same thing with a $30 burner and $.25 discs.
Michael, I know I didn’t help you get rid of your discs. I almost would want to keep them for sentimental reasons – almost. Good luck, and thanks for the trip down memory (filled with pits and lands) lane.
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
Dan,
As Noah pointed out in his less than friendly message, you set the Region Code in your authoring software. The US is Region 1.
That’s only part of the issue, however. We here in the US use the NTSC television system instead of PAL. So you would also need to transcode your program and author the disc as an NTSC disc.
Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
Brad,
There is no default time for a pause. The pause is caused by the play head having to queue up to the new track and it varies depending on the player. Some players are very quick and the pause may only be 1/4 of a second. Others will be slightly longer. A pause of 4 seconds sounds WAY too long, so maybe you’ve got something else going on there. Is this a dual layer disc? The switch to the other layer could take a little longer than a simple track change, but even that doesn’t usually take as long as 4 seconds.
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon -
When designing your menus in AE, or in Photoshop if you use that to create the static layers, then design in Square pixels using a size of 720×540. That way it will look right when it gets to DVD. DVD uses rectangular pixels.
Hope this helps. Have fun!
Rob
Rob Neidig
R&R Media Productions
Eugene, Oregon