Seth Bloombaum
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This may be a bug with Vegas or the OS. I’ve tried unicode characters in about 6 different softwares (but not Vegas) and had different results every time. It’s a mess.
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You might want to check out the Digital Rights Management (DRM) features of Windows Media. This can be researched at microsoft.com.
Apple would like to see the DRM they use in iTunes and iPod become the standard. If everyone is on that “i” software platform I suppose it works pretty well, I’ve not had experience with that DRM.
MS has been at it a bit longer and counter-intuitively has a more open system, supported by more services and etc.
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Not in Vegas, and not easily.
Suggest you test a file conversion in the freeware Windows Media Encoder. Carefully match the ouput profile to your source file’s characteristics.
Open the session properties panel, and click on the plugins tab, audio radio button, register button. Search for a direct-x plugin such as Wave Hammer or other dynamics control such as a compressor, and move it over to the current plugins pane. Highlight it and configure it – this will be hit and miss without preview, you might get your settings in vegas before you do this.
Encode it and see what you’ve got… IMO this is sort of a back-asswards way to get this done, but I don’t know of any other utilities.
You might compare the video results from WME to the re-encode from Vegas, this might not produce much better results. Depending on the qualities of the original WMVs, re-encodes in Vegas might not be so bad, you should test it.
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Just went through the complete production workflow on this, and have tested a few post workflows.
Vegas will import a 2-ch. bwf that has been renamed to .wav via file | import | bwf. It will place it on the timeline at the initial timestamp of the file. The initial timestamp will also be visible in media properties.
Two open source/freeware utilities will help – fostex has a splitter utility that will take a 4-ch. recording down to 1-ch. bwfs with .wav extensions. You’d import these to vegas as above, timecode info is still present. Download it here.
Vegas will not allow opening a bwf or wav over the arbitrary 2GB limit, but Audacity will. Also, you can drag and drop a full 4-ch. 744 bwf onto audacity and it will open. However, Audacity does not expose the timecode stamp, and also saves only to a straight .wav, but is handy for auditioning and utility work.
Now we come to video – there is a pref to view event timecode right on clip thumbnails on the timeline. You might establish rough sync by importing a bwf and then dropping a video clip using reference timecode from the beginning of the bwf.
All this gets you close – in my humble opinion you must have reference audio from the camcorder as well. Then, turn off quantize to frames and slip the 744 audio until you have perfect sync. And then don’t forget to turn quantize back on before cutting video.
Now group the 744 audio with the video clip and move it where you want. Good idea to enable the 2GB recording limit on the 744 as well.
BTW, I did time-of-day timecode on the 744 and a couple Sony Z1s.
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Many of these studio doors (it’s not an uncommon need) are built with walk-in refrigerator door hardware.
Your doors will need to be custom made. They are typically about 14″ thick, with wheels to support their weight. They’re made heavy, because you need mass to isolate mid-to-low frequencies. Plenty of rubber gaskets where they seat to seal out the higher freqs. Obviously, a fair amount of work goes into the frame as well.
That’s as much as I found out a few years ago when I helped in the eval of such a project (it didn’t go because of leakage through the roof, which would have been way too expensive for the owner).
What I don’t know is what builders fill these doors with. Fiberglass insulation? Blown in mineral wool? Sand?
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Totally agree with you on that, Craig.
Those darn clients (whoops, that’s another topic). So often when a client wants a firm quote I end up making up my own specs for their project, and spitting that back to them with the estimate. The real stinker about post estimates is that usually you’re not in control of the actual hours – it’s the client.
As to the client who wants 80 hours of work in 5 days, or 40 hours when you’ve already booked 25 hours… there aren’t a lot of alternatives. Someone goes on swing shift, or ???. For a one-person band it’s even harder.
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Craig, I appreciate what you wrote.
However, I would never use the word “quote” until I had specifications. Until then, I would use the word “estimate”. An estimate is a guess which can always change as more information becomes available. A quote can only change if there is a change in specifications.
But I think we’re on the same page about not painting yourself into a corner, I’m just super-sensitive to the words, and I want to make sure my client understands the difference too.
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I have to disagree with the previous comment – Cleaner XL has less and less functionality because Discreet/Autodesk has not updated the product in years, and it is slowly dying on the vine.
If it is working for Seth, great! He must be avoiding bugs that trip up many users. Most people looking to buy something today will go with Sorenson.
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Check out Marantz 660 and M-Audio Microtrack. More spendy, better recordings – I’ve had some experience with the 660 and 670, very good stuff.
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That’s pretty mysterious.
If no screech is heard when previewing in CD Architect I would:
1) check to see that you have the most updated driver for your cdr drive. Get this from the drive manufacturers web site.If that doesn’t work, I would:
2) uninstall and reinstall CD Architect.