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Victoria Plummer
October 9, 2009 at 4:48 pm in reply to: best approach to editing with surround sound?

btw = I just disabled a lot of the audio ttracks and now it is playing fine. Glad I didn’t delete the tracks and plan to add them in at the end – that would have been a lot of extra work.

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Victoria Plummer
October 9, 2009 at 2:09 pm in reply to: best approach to editing with surround sound?

Yes, there are 14 tracks – and they are stems. Two are dialogue, and 6 each are music and effects. The music and effects each have there at the end of the file names : C, L, Lf, Ls, R and Rs.

I’ve also discovered that my system doesn’t want to play down my sequence with all these tracks – I am editing in ProRes422 (HQ). It starts out fine, then starts stuttering and eventually the picture will freeze though the audio will keep playing.

I am considering just working with the 2 dialogue tracks, and the L and R of the music and efx until the piece is locked, then going back and adding in the rest of the audio tracks before the mix.

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Victoria Plummer
October 8, 2009 at 7:24 pm in reply to: best approach to editing with surround sound?

Hi David,

Thanks for responding.

I am cutting down a feature film for broadcast on television. The producers are not sure of the final format, but I suspect it will be digibeta.

I am not sure if the tracks are Dolby encoded – how can I tell?

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Victoria Plummer
October 8, 2009 at 2:58 pm in reply to: how can I check a frame fate of an aiff file?

update – trashing all the prefs and then resetting worked for most files. One stubborn one had to be copied and renamed, but now I have all my audio at the correct frame rate and running in sync – thanks!

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Victoria Plummer
October 6, 2009 at 12:28 am in reply to: how can I check a frame fate of an aiff file?

thanks for the responses. It is definitely an aif file and all the settings are set to 25 fps, but I will try copying and renaming the file then re-importing it. I won’t be working on this project again til Wednesday, but I will give you an update.

The only way I finally figured out it was at a different rate was when I was going through it frame by frame trying to sync it and I noticed frames 26, 27, etc.

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Victoria Plummer
July 4, 2009 at 2:45 pm in reply to: importing NTSC dvd into PAL project?

thanks!

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Victoria Plummer
July 3, 2009 at 10:05 pm in reply to: importing NTSC dvd into PAL project?

Hi David,

Thanks for responding. No, you’re not missing something – I was just hoping that there was some technique that I was not aware of to have everything work somewhat easily. Unfortunately I don’t see any way around eyematching everything. Luckily it is not too long a piece.

Do you have a recommendation on the best way to import an NTSC DVD to a PAL project?

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