Thaxter Clavemarlton
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Many times EXACT sounds are best CREATED by YOU, but if you want to try to find some already recorded,
try these:https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
https://www.koumis.com/soundfx.htm
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Hold on there, I want to play.
And I’ve got to vote with the PAN to CENTER method.
That is proper and accepted method for creating “center mono” tracks from individually recorded tracks.
Only since the advent of digital has anyone ever considered doubling-up a single track to place on another to create center-mono.
In analog times, this would have been a terrible mistake, as the head-alignment issues would have caused TRUE out-of-phase (“ESS-swishing”) and high-frequency attenuation issues.But even now that it CAN be done (in digital), does not make it what SHOULD be done.
When an audio mix is created, it contains various stereo and mono elements along with pan information.
Let’s say that the track in question we do not want FULLY centered, but we want it to appear panned a “bit” to the left.
Doing this with “twin” mono tracks would be a nightmare.So in professional editing, mono tracks should be individually handled with the degree of PAN (along with level) one of its aspects.
While its not “WRONG” to double-up, but it certainly does not CAUSE phase problems to pan to center (it could even IMPROVE the in-phase situation due to D-to-A timing issues.)
Careful panning and adjusting levels of individual audio tracks is a time-consuming (and even specialized) “art” that, once mastered, can improve the total effectiveness of a production.
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Your question says “better”, but it looks as though what you really want is “BIGGER”.
My recommendation is a larger Mackie (they’re probably in more edit suites than any other brand).
And buy one with MORE inputs than you think you need today.
You can have UNLIMITED OUTPUTS from any board by just adding a “distribution amplifier” (DA) on any and all channels.
But you say you have a ROUTER… If its an “active” (powered) router, it has its own built-in DA.
If so, does the router NOT have enough outputs to feed ALL of your other gear?Now, if you want an ALL DIGITAL mixer, (just Google: Mackie Digital) you are going to have to ante-UP.
But for most edit mixing jobs, you can rely on a high-quality analog mixer and feed it to the analog inputs of digital gear, our use a stand-alone A-to-D converter between the units. -
[Christian Masini] “mixing down the audio doesn’t help, I made and aif and FCP still ommitted my music.”
Are you SURE you performed a true “Audio Mixdown”?
(It is a very SPECIFIC function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it CAN help with many problems.)You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.
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NOTE:
Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
——————————————————-First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
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[PeterGroom] “If you tried converting them to mono files then they just halved in size. “
Hi Peter,
Even if the “original files” are “halved in size” when they are burned to a traditional audio CD that will still only allow for approx. 72 minutes of RUN-TIME per audio CD.
The problem is not the original files’ SIZE, but in the actual RUNNING TIME of the audio.
During the burning process, a conventional audio CD format will just make the single mono track into 2 identical audio (dual mono) tracks that take up as much space on the disc as two “stereo” tracks.
Am I wrong in this?
OTOH, I suppose it would be possible to record the “first-half” of the audio on Channel 1 of the CD and the “second-half” of the audio on Channel 2 of the CD (one would have to listen to only one channel at a time.)
This method is used in certain audio cassette books-on-tape (by means of a special switchable headphone adapter designed for single-channel listening in both ears.)
A unique problem with this method with CD’s is that any “cut markers” or “chapter markers” would be difficult to set due to there being two separate programs occupying the same portion of the CD.
I guess one could just set a marker every 5 or 10 minutes for ease of “jumping through” the presentation. -
[pdr] “Not sure if this works, as I don’t have the plugin your talking about,”
What level of FCP are you using?
“Title 3D” has been included with FCP for a long time (but you must choose to install it.)
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[josef brett] “That sounds awfully pissy advice. Thanks for the app suggestion, but do you have to be rude about it.”
You’re welcome.
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[Cameron Clendaniel] “Also, have you ever used, or trusted, Norton to “repair” and defragment discs? “
My g-d, man.
Get Norton OFF of your Mac!!!It is a KNOWN causer of problems like you describe.
Make SURE you do NOT have any “automaitic” Norton Disk functions (such as “Auto Protect”) running.If you want to “tune-up” a drive, use Alsoft Disk Warrior.
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A “dual monitor” on a Mac is exactly the “same” as having a very WIDE single screen.
Anything you can do on one monitor can be done split between TWO… its just allows much more screen “real estate” to work with.I always work with two monitors out of convenience even with word-processing programs.
(Photoshop, with all of its windows is MUCH better on dual-monitors.)Besides, you can use ANY two monitors (they don’t even need to match is screen-size) so you can even borrow an older monitor to use until you have the budget to buy the one you really want.
Right now I’m using a 21″ CRT and a 19″ CRT and they work great together.
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[Jack] ” I wanted to edit the movie with background music, and putting in the original sound as an option as well.”
I asssume you mean SPOKEN LANGUAGE and not Captioned Language.
If you want a second (or more) SPOKEN language choice, you’d need to have all of the dialogue translated and re-recorded (“dubbed”) to closely match the original timing (especially if there is supposed to be “lip-sync”).
Then. as you say, you’d add all of the music (and sound effects) to the new voices and make that another “track” of your film.
You would do this to a copy of your edited timeline so you’d have 2 (or more) complete films, each with its own full soundtrack in a given language.The “DVD mastering” is the stage where you would add the “menu choices” as to which way the disk would play (which audio track).
Any professional DVD mastering house can do this for you from your multiple timeline outputs…
Or, you would need buy professional-level DVD burning software to add that choice at YOUR level.Alternately, a good way to do this easily for just making a few individual DVD copies, is to burn an ENTIRE DVD with only one language and ANOTHER DVD with only the other language.
You wouldn’t have a “choice” on EACH DISC, but you would be able to choose which disk to play.