Vince Becquiot
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What is the size of the final file, if it’s still there to check on ?
By Quicklime uncompressed, do you mean QT animation?
Vince
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Don’t use Windows media Player ?
What type of AVI are we talking about. It could be that:
It could very much be that your machine can’t keep up with the data rate. You didn’t specify what type of machine you are on.
What if you export to WMV HD?
Vince
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David,
The reason for my post, was that those same projects were seeing leaks on XP, (also on a dual Core, but 32 bits)
The memory has remained steady on this new machine, which is why I’m wondering if Vista / 64 bits may have somehow solved that issue. I’m sure it will have its limitations as well.
Vince
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Yep, you got it.
Many (cheaper) surround systems, (the cheapest one come with a DVD player) will try to reproduce surround where there isn’t any, by a splitting of frequencies (that I haven’t really researched), but the result is either a fuzzy sound from the satellite speakers, or the muddy audio you are describing. I guess, one way to deal with it would be assign the same tracks to surround speakers or to tell the client to disable the surround feature, or even better, sell them a surround version 😉
Vince
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You can try to add some gain and clean up background noise with audition, but there isn’t much improvement that can be made really.
Even a gate may improve things a little, but the end result will likely remain close to the original with the amount of work you will be putting in it.
We all learn quickly with those kind of mistakes 🙁
Vince
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Unfortunately, there really isn’t a really good answer here. Premiere won’t accept the files because they aren’t supported, just like FCP won’t accept DV AVI. Was the export QT animation?
Vince
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300kb/s doesn’t sound like much, and DV AVI is a bad choice for any animation render.
From AE, if you are not using the dynamic link, use the render queue and use lossless.
From Premiere, choose “Microsoft AVI”, then under video, choose compressor “none” and uncheck “Recompress”.
Vince
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Does the test button give you a successful connection?
You may have to put the FTP address in the form:
Also, make sure the remote directory exists.
Cheers,
Vince
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As Harm said, make a tape to tape backup. Use batch capture in Premiere to capture all your tapes.
When you are ready to archive the project:
-Make all the MiniDV footage “Offline” in the project panel, and select delete originals.(important! You have to make sure the tape timecode is the same as the footage in Premiere. This means it has to be the original files captured using Premiere batch capture)
– Then use Premiere’s “Project Manager” feature. tell it to delete unused and to copy all in a new location.
That should give you a rather small sized folder, probably only under 1 Gig, given you don’t have a lot of other footage besides MiniDV.
If you need to work on that project again, tell Premiere to make the footage online again, and it will ask you to insert the original tapes in order to recapture the files.
Vince
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Hey,
Not much more to offer than what you’ve tried to fix the problem.
For future productions:
Did you separate power and “the rest” of the equipment? (I mean on a completely separate breaker?), and did the rest of your equipment have a common ground? Audio on the same circuit as dimmed lighting will almost always hum. Finally, groundlifts (on everything except lighting) can also be a lifesaver.
If you did separate everything, then theorically you should be hum free, even crossing power. If not, you may have a shielding problem on your XLR (assuming that’s what you used).
Sorry if all of this sounds obvious, but I see many, many people ignoring that simple rule.
Glad you were able to take care of the issue.
Cheers,
Vince