Skye Sweeney
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I will look into this soon.
Talking off the top of my head, I would think that a pure limiter would introduce lots of distortion.
Looking back at my first post I think I was not very clear. When I record the audio track for a movie, it is done in sections. I record each sound effect by itself, the dialog by itself, and the music by itself. During each recording, the physical setup, the microphone, and the gains may all be different. I elect to adjust the gains to get the best dynamic range. But this means the whisper is close to 0 dB as well as the thunder bolt. Normaly I compensate by playing with the level (volume) control inside Premiere. Trying to get this right by ear is what is hard.
Trying to normalize each section based on SPL tables seems like a way to at least get “in the ballpark”. So now my thunder clap stays at 0 dB and the whisper I normalize down by 60+ dB. Of course the dynamic range of the whisper is much less, but it has to be have a lower volume that the clap.
I hope I made myself clearer this time! And thanks for the reply!
-Skye Sweeney
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Willie offers you great advice. All I can offer you is to make a backup of this precious tape. Burn a few CDs and distribute them to different people. No need to compound the tradegy.
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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I believe that I have licked this problem. It would appear the PP1.5 project file was somehow corrupted. I did the “import into a new project” trick, and this SEEMS to have fixed the problem.
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I have 2 gig of ram installed. I have a 2gig P4 processor. I guess I could be running low on RAM. I will take your suggestions and monitor it use.
I am editing NTSC DV footage. Most were captured direct from my miniDV camera, one source was digitized to DV from an analog 8mm camera.
I just checked the XML-ish project file for any obvious signs of corruption. None. I will also try the import of project into project trick to see if that clears the issue.
Thanks for the help. Keep the ideas comming!
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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I was premature. Although the export to DV did not fail with a Disk Full error, the generated file was corrupted 48 minutes in. At this point the audio stutters very badly and the video flashes black.
I am about to try moving the destination to a different disk. Other than that I am out of ideas.
Please, any suggestions for tests to run?
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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For closure…
Disabling Norton Anti-virus appears to have fixed the “disk full” error. Perhaps it was Norton that was gacking at the large file and not PP. So, my new standard mode of operation is to seperate myself from the new and disable anti-virus software during large exports.-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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Not sure how to remove the artifacts from your current recording, but the document refered to in this post may help prevent them in the future.
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111277415558588&forumid=168
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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I believe it does help! I will run this experiment at home tonight.
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
https://www.fll-freak.com