[Scott Clements]

Thanks, Sareesh, but unfortunately, it’s not that simple. You can go in and adjust levels manually, but to take dynamics into account, it could take you weeks to properly mix a show like that. What I need is a hard limiter, so that I boost the overall volume and anything boosted too loudly, gets brought down to an acceptable level. Both Premiere and Avid have hard limiters that make sense, but I’ve never ever been able to figure out if FCP is even able to do this. Other people on the net have the same problem, but no proper solution been given except using soundtrack pro, which is difficult to use in my situation.

Film Editor, London UK
http://www.scottclementseditor.com

[Scott Clements]

Hi, Chris.

I too am unable to use any of the tools within Final Cut Pro (excluding Soundtrack Pro) to create a hard audio limit. I can’t get compressor/limiter to create a -3db limit for example. I can only use aupeaklimiter to cut off anything above 0db, but nothing below that (an even that has to be on nested audio). I share the frustration of the previous poster in this thread and know exactly what he’s talking about.

-Scott

Film Editor, London UK
http://www.scottclementseditor.com

[Scott Clements]

Thanks for this insights, Mark.

Film Editor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Hey, Rafael.

Thanks for your response. I am familiar with the technique you mentioned, but I’m almost 100% sure that track 2 is not the camera mic. It sounds as though the interview was recorded with two external mics, but that low end was added into the 2nd one. The difference in quality is only one of equalisation, not of mic placement or quality. It’s almost as the recordist said, “Ah, I’m gonna give you your own bass track that you can mix in with the normally recorded one, if you feel so inclined”. it’s really odd.

-Scott

Film Editor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Doh! You have to press the keyframe button before the bar comes up. I forgot about that.

Film Editor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Cool. Thanks for letting me know. This situation was resolved a different way, but will keep this in mind for the future.

Film Editor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

I didn’t use the media browser…just the project panel. Would that really make a difference?

Film Editor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

It turns out it was related to a bug in Premiere that was preventing the quicktime codecs from showing up.

Nuke Compositor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

I discovered that you do it in Prelude. Why? Why break up tasks across 2 apps? To make things worse, you have to download the ProRes codecs separately from Adobe. The Media Encoder solution was far better. Plus, it made use of all codecs installed on your system. It just gave you the flexibility to do whatever you want. Prelude is a bad idea.

Nuke Compositor, London UK

[Scott Clements]

Thanks, John.

“Is there a reason not to create the text in AE and just use Layer -> “Create Shapes from Text”?”

In hindsight, that’s what I should have done in the first place. I just like designing things in Photoshop – but didn’t realise it was going to be such an issue. I think there’s some sort of political reason why Photoshop doesn’t have easier to use vectors – I think Adobe is maybe afraid of it killing off Illustrator. Or maybe I’m just a big conspiracy theorist. It is weird though that you can’t easily import Photoshop vectors into AE like you can with Illustrator vectors.

Nuke Compositor, London UK