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Ah, now 24bit vs 16bit – that IS worthwhile. I hate it when I have to bring out the DAT and drop those extra bits these days. But you can go to 24bit without pushing up the sample rate and messing with your editor’s mind…
24bit, 48kHz, all the way for me. Easy for everyone.
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I’m gonna stick my neck out here and say that there is no place in location sound for 96kHz – stick to 48kHz.
Anything else will just make your post production more tricky, give you less storage, and the extra kilohertz will only be heard by passing mongrels.
🙂
Ro
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I think Izotope’s new RX software works pretty well for this sort of thing – the baby, bizzarely, would probably be easier to remove than the general hubub….
Check out http://www.izotope.com
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In the Digistore on the Digidesign website you can purchase either the full version of Protools HD 7.4 ($199 i believe) or the upgrade from 7.3 ($79). The former should work. Odd that you are being sold a system without any authorizations – I kinda thought they travelled with the core cards…
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The Mbox 2 was never really designed to do this sort of thing. Even with a full HD rig you need to purchase the machine control option (
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yep, if you don’t need to externally sync with anything you can manage fine without a Sync I/O. Obviously you’ll need an interface too – I didn’t mention that. A 192 I/O, 192 Dig, 96 I/0, or one of the devices that uses the digilink interface (apogee etc…)
Waves can be run natively under RTAS for almost but not all of their plugs – you’d have to see on their website which ones have to be run TDM. You could start with just the HD1 system and see how things go using a combo of both TDM processing on the HD cards and RTAS on the mac pro, then if you need some more power further down the line you could pick up an APA-32 at that stage.
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I, personally, would go for a nice Mac Pro along with an HD1 system. it supports up to 96 tracks and 32 I/O which should be enough according to your spec above (assuming you are talking stereo stems).
The Mac Pro can handle many RTAS plugins easily.
If you like the waves plugins so much then you could also consider an APA-32 firewire processing box, only
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I do this using two bits of software, both of which are freeware, both of which are for OS X: MacTheRipper, which captures the VOB files from the DVD to your local hard disk (and can combine multiple VOB files into one) and MPEG Streamclip, which can convert the ensuing VOB files to DV, Quicktime etc…
The links are https://www.squared5.com/ and https://www.mactheripper.org/
Should be fairly self-explanatory but get back in touch if you need help.
Best, Ro