Tom Prigge
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One way to look at this is that you have recorded audio–it is just that the audio you recorded is silence. This reminds me of when I took a phone call at the production house I was working at in 1988. Someone had set up their VHS camcorder on a tripod to record their child’s birthday party. They told me they had audio and could hear everything, but they had left the lens cap on and the screen was black. They wanted to know if we could electronically remove the lens cap to reveal the picture of the party because there was no picture on the screen. I told them they had a picture on their screen. It was a picture of the inside of the lens cap. I’m afraid you have the same problem–you have a recording of silence.
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Take the number of seconds the music lasts. Divide that number by how many pictures you have. That will tell you how long, how many seconds, each picture needs to last (I’m assuming you want each picture to last the same amount of time) Before you import your pictures, change the still picture duration in preferences to however long each picture needs to be. The default is 5 seconds. When you import them, they’ll be the correct length.
Of course, if I misunderstood your question, ignore this.
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Ty,
Thanks for the info. I’ll be using Camtasia to record simply because I already have it. I guess headsets are not as expensive as I thought they would be.
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Rob,
I found the full manual–in multiple languages even! I thought at first when I saw the diagram that the switches being either up or down made no sense, but then I realized what they were doing. Anyway, thanks for the heads up. I Shurely appreciate it.
Tom
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Ben,
Can you post how you fixed the problem? It could help someone in the future.
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Thanks to everyone that replied. Looks like it might have been the mismatch. I had Audacity set at 16 bit 48k. The Scarlet 2i2 default is 16 bit 44.1. I’ve matched them up and so far, so good.
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Bill and Ty–Thank you for the advice. Do you think I can rule out the mic? Through the headphone jack on the Scarlet 2i2 I do not hear any weirdness whenever the recording goes bad. Wouldn’t I hear it through the headphone jack if the mic was the problem?
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Mark’s reply inspires me to tell this war story. Early 1980s, I’m a DJ at a radio station and have to cut 6 high energy spots. There’s too much copy on each one and the client wants to cut nothing. Take after take after take on each one until I get all 6 in time and sounding right. Oh, and the client wanted reverb, which back then was controlled by potting up the reel to reel machine. Or maybe it was potting up the cart machine when transfering. I can’t remember. Anyway, I get all 6 spots carted and call the client. We had things rigged so you could play the cart down the phone line. Client says they sound great, but he wants more reverb. Of course, there’s so much reverb on them that you can barely make out what I’m even saying. I say okay, I wait one hour, then call him back and play the exact same spots to him. Yeah, that’s what I want he says.
And people wonder why I went prematurely gray.
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Can you shoot P2 and tape at the same time on the HVX200? I didn’t think that was possible, even if shooting just HD. I used a Firestore at a TV station I once worked at and I don’t think you could use it and P2 at the same time. If I remember correctly, there was a menu setting to feed the Firestore that disabled or bypassed P2. But my memory is hazy on a lot of things, maybe this too. Never did like using the Firestore, but all we had were 8 gig cards. I use 64 gig cards now in my HVX200 and never worry about it.
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I don’t want anyone to take this the wrong way, especially the original poster–not interested in starting a flame war–but it seems a bit ironic that sound effects are needed for a “reality show.” (And yes, I know that’s not the dictinary definition of ironic. And I’m not naïve enough to think that reality shows are real.) Just made me smile, that’s all.