[Roger Bansemer]

Thanks John. You’ve explained all this to me many times but it’s really good to get the explanation one more time.
Here’s one thing we do as a safeguard:
When recording in the field with a SLR lav mike, my camera will record on two tracks and unless I have a mic on two people I set it so I get a slightly higher or lower level on each track. That way if a track ends up being to hot I have the other track as a choice.
Of course if using two mics that’s not an option. If the interviewer and guest both have mics and one mic say for instance rubs against some clothing and causing some bad sound, I sometimes can use the first persons mic during that segment if they are standing close enough but have to be careful not to change the phase.
That happened on one of our shows and all sounded great on my PC but PBS when they reviewed it, heard nothing on that segment as the audio was out of phase.
I’ve know just barely enough now to get by with a passing grade when it comes to producing a finished program for PBS thanks mostly to Johns help.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Hi Grazie,
I agree. I think I don’t need another program to learn right now especially one that has a interface that I’m not at all familiar with.
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Express for sure. Just saw another pop up box that wanted me to download an update or something so I did and when I look at that it’s the full version which I’m sure is the demo.
I think I may just pass on this one. Seems like maybe more trouble than it’s worth.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I installed HitFilm with serial provided. All went well with install.
Today I tried it out by applying it to an event in event and it asked for the serial number which I already went through yesterday. I entered it again and got this message:
“The serial you entered is only valid for HitFilm 2 Express, it cannot be used with this program”

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Thanks Mike.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

Thanks for that information.
How does it interface with Vegas?
And… To get it do you just click on the “Try for Free” button?
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I did already on a post early on in this conversation.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

1. Put a compressor on the main audio bus and set it to, say, -24dB. The compressor will the compress any audio that goes above that level.

Put the compressor on each audio track.

2. HOWEVER! This will not prevent some peaks from creeping out above that level, so this is where the Wave Hammer thing comes into effect. Put that on the main bus, too, to catch any sneaky peaks that might violate the peak limits.

Put the Wave Hammer on the Master Bus. Here’s the settings I use.

Am I on the right track?

There are presets for both the compressor and the Wave Hammer. If I want to set to -24dB, is it roughly acceptable to use the preset for -24dB?

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I was thinking back about a year ago when a friend of mine was producing a television program for a local station in Tampa. He actually paid the station for the time slot on Sunday mornings and sold his own air time.
Anyway, I did some closed captioning for him and he sent me his program so I could do the job. His audio was all over the place and his levels were all over the place as well.
Yet… the station put some audio and broadcast color clamps on it and basically let it go. Something PBS would never do.
So, if doing something for a local television station, I think they may have a lot less restrictions, rules, and regulations. He didn’t even have bars and tones on his program when he gave it to the station.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

John, your right about all of that for sure. The good news is that I not knowing anything about producing a television series have done so with the great amount of selfless help from everyone on this forum, especially you. Without all that it would never have happened and now we’ve produced over 80 PBS shows. Amazing!
So Norm, don’t give up. It takes a lot of persistence. I can tell you that.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com