[Toby Dalsgaard]

Thanks Nate-

I’m stil baffled. I have QT Pro V7.1.3 installed and I cannot see a standalone .MXF/Proxy.

This MPEG4 codec….what is it called? It should be installed as a result of having QTPro7, but I don’t see anyything that resembles it in the library folder..

-T

[Toby Dalsgaard]

I’ll give you a very rough and vague answer to a question that would take a book to answer.

Since you are MIXING, the elements shouldn’t be “around” anything. They should be mixed to your taste.

As for levels, keep your eyes on the meters. Commercial and promo work rides at about -15 to -12 with peaks at -10.

Monitor your mixes through different speakers and mix according to what will be the final playback environment. Music tends to get eaten up in smaller tv speakers, but tends to overwhelm dialog in larger speakers…split the difference.

Dialog is king..always….if people are talking, better to play it safe and not have it even come close to fighting with the music.

So much more to add to this. Seriously, the question couldn’t be any broader.

[Toby Dalsgaard]

I will try this tomorrow Nate.

[Toby Dalsgaard]

Hey Nate..

Thanks for responding…we are seeking a solution for a producers who won’t have FCP at their workstations. I just made a new thread on the top of the board…check it out and let me know what you think.

[Toby Dalsgaard]

Just to clarify….

We have wondered the same thing at our facility as we need a Mac proxy viewer for our producers. Exporting a QT in the Transfer software will not transfer timecode with it, rendering kind of a useless function as far as spotting and pre-production goes in my opinion.

We will however try and and set up the transfer software on a mac without FCP to see if it we can use it as a standalone viewer.