[Ty Ford]

Hello Bouke and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum

Yes, pre-roll messes with timecode. Pre-roll is basically a ram bucket. When you hit record at 12:00 and the ram bucket is large enough to handle six seconds, the audio machine thinks it went into record at 11:54, six seconds BEFORE you hit the record button. When it time stamps the file, the timing is off by the amount of the pre-roll.

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[Ty Ford]

Scott,

Thanks for the brain power!

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[Ty Ford]

Hello David and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

What camera?

What mic?

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Rudd and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

Garage Band?

Audicy?

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[Ty Ford]

Hi Scott and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

No regrets! Did you access the channels in Quicktime Properties/Audio or do something else?

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[Ty Ford]

JIm,

As regards your choice between a 416 Sennheiser and a Schoeps cmc641. That’s sort of like saying you’re going to play a round of golf and asking what ONE club to use. You can go around with a driver, but will find your short game and putting will be un-fun. You can use a putter, but your drives and chip shots will be annoying. You can use a sand wedge, but putting and driving will be wonky.

Best of luck with your pursuits.

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Ty Ford

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Archie,

With all due respect. The only reason I’d use a 416 indoors (much less an me66) is if I didn’t have another mic. Or if the acoustics of the room allowed it. I’ve used the David Letterman example many times before. You can use a shotgun on an interview show because the set has no walls and the ceiling is 30 feet up and probably treated. 6-8′ away from your target while shooting in most average interiors will provide a washed out and distant track for which there is currently no plug in to fix.

If you’re inside and can’t get closer than 18″-24″ with a super or hypercardioid, go to a lav.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

Tom,

Phillip stipulated in his first post that he wanted “very good audio.” That set everyone’s threshold for the suggestions they made, yours included.

I recall becoming light-headed when I found out what a good tripod and head would cost. Here in the Cow Audio Forum, the messenger has been roughed up a bit before when the truth is told. The skin thickens with each experience. I hope you were not offended by his reply.

Thanks so much for lending your time and brain cells.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

[Phillip Taylor] “But it seems this forum and its response team has their head far above the clouds of average and normal in favor of reaching some level of unprecedented sound quality……..regardless of marginal improvemnts in sound from the clouds below. Now I know you might say the improvement in sound will be extrordinary, but I tend to believe you have been discussing state of the art “wants” rather than realistic “needs.” “

Hey there Phillip,

Our heads are anywhere but “far above the clouds.” They are in the trenches — every day. The others who offered their help and experience are not so formal as a response team, but they did provide you good information.

We know what works and what doesn’t and why. That this may disappoint you is regrettable. It sometimes happens when you tell someone something other than what they want to hear.

Regardless, we appreciate that you took your time to contact the Cow Audio Forum forum for assistance and wish you the best in finding a satisfactory “happy ending” to your audio situation. Please do consider enriching us by coming back to let us know what you found and how well that worked for you.

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Ty Ford

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[Ty Ford]

I do some simple DVD-R archiving for small projects, but most of my clients say they don’t really care if the original session hangs around.

BZZZT!

Just yesterday a client I shot and edited for two years ago called and wanted to know if we could shorten his piece. Fortunately, I had the session on an old HD I have marked for this sort of storage. I got two hours of business out of the redo and we did need the whole FCP session to do the work properly.

Maybe you draw a line somewhere. Anything over X minutes for long form. Spots can be crazy busy even in 30 seconds. Ask your client what they want you to do. If the job is too big to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD-R, then add in some archiving time and/or materials, or sell them a hard drive. I just did that. A Lacie 1TB HD was about $170.00. Keep it at your place or give it to them.

Bob, you could sell them their own archive tape and some time for the backup.

If they don’t want to pay for it, get them to sign a release that says they understand that you are not archiving anything.

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Ty Ford

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