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Stephen Mann
February 16, 2013 at 3:46 pm in reply to: MOV is missing

How much RAM and free hard disk do you have?
Have you tried turning off GPU support (both places)?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Stephen Mann
February 16, 2013 at 3:45 pm in reply to: Audio problem – can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks John.
It’s not clipping. I was careful to watch the clip LEDs on the preamp and they never lit (even then, the clipping LEDs come on at 95% of peak, leaving a bit of head there). And the midstrean mix sounded great. (Midstream is after the preamps but before sending the channels over the Firewire to the laptop).

And the clicks happen during quiet passages.

After discovering the problem at lunch, I unplugged the second Firepod and went to 8-channels and the second set was good.

Thanks to Alexey with his Izope RX, the noise is greatly diminished now and I’m not too embarassed to have my name in the credits.

Now, I would like to know what Alexey did to the files and how does RX compare to Spectral Layers?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 16, 2013 at 3:31 pm in reply to: How do I open an XDCAM file in Vegas?

Thanks, john. I had him send me a ProRes file and I’ll be sending a DNxHD file back when finished.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 16, 2013 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Audio problem – can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks Alexey – you saved my reputation.
Question about iZope – is this fix a relatively simple process or did you have to find each flaw and manually fix it?

How would you rate/compare RX to Sony’s Spectral product?

Thanks again.
Steve

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 16, 2013 at 5:27 am in reply to: Audio problem – can anyone offer a suggestion?

Alexey – thank you so much for the offer. The distortion is still there, but so much diminished that I don’t think anyone will hear it over the dialogue or Foley on the video. This will salvage my reputation with the producer. He is doing another movie this summer and I want to be a part of its production.

Scene 4 was the longest, and there are four more with the same problem. They are in a zip file here: Set 1

If you are ever in the Boston area, I owe you a dinner.

The film is an indie produced entirely with volunteers from a local cable TV channel. The orchestra is a High-School Chamber Winds orchestra and the score was written by their director. Well not entirely volunteer, the producer pays all the cast and musicians $1 for their release. The crew got pizza. I think we got the better deal. As soon as it’s finished I will get permission from the Producer to share it with everyone who offered to help me with this problem.

Thanks again.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 12, 2013 at 11:10 pm in reply to: Ok to overwrite Media?

I’ll give it a shot and see how it works.

You really can’t break anything in Vegas. Just do a save-as to a new filename that describes what you’re doing then go ahead and experiment. If you don’t like what happens, delete that veg file and open the last known good one and try something else.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 12, 2013 at 7:50 pm in reply to: MultiCam editing & Split screen in Sony Vegas?

I always make a copy of the original tracks before making the multi-camera track. I am not clear what you are trying to do – do you just want one camera on the left side and the other on the right?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 12, 2013 at 7:48 pm in reply to: Strange error message in DVDA

I haven’t ever seen that message, but then I haven’t ever tried moving a marker in DVDA. Also note that Chapter markers on a DVD have to be on an i-Frame (DVD Specs). If you try moving the chapter marker from an i-Frame, DVDA will just move it to the nearest one.

The best way is to fix the marker position in Vegas and encode a new MPEG file. Since Version 9, (I think), the Sony MPEG encoder will force an iFrame at markers.

It’s possible that your error message is that you are trying to save the .sfk file (the one with the markers) while DVDA still has it open.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 12, 2013 at 7:40 pm in reply to: Need Assistance on HD specs for TV station

Thanks, Mike.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
Stephen Mann
February 12, 2013 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Ok to overwrite Media?

I’m not sure what the question is. Vegas is non-destructive, so the original media is never modified. The project file (.veg) contains editing instructions from the timeline and pointers to the source media. If you replace a media clip (if it’s on the timeline, it’s an event – not a clip) with one with the same name, then Vegas won’t know anything was changed. If the new clip is a different size from the original, you may have issues because Vegas won’t adjust the timeline to the new size.

The safest way to make changes to clips is to use a different name for the new clip and in the Project Media window, right-click on the old clip and select “Replace”.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

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