Will Salley
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I’ve had this happen several times and as a result I just don’t give them anything to boost. I cut off (hi-pass or EQ) anything below 120 Hz if the playback system has subs.
Just because someone may be a professional doesn’t make them good at what they do.
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I know of no specific filter. Use the basic EQ and roll-off anything below 120Hz and anything above 4kHz, then apply some slight room reverb.
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Or you can hit the “T” key to cycle through all the available tools. The cursoe will change to reflect the current tool. One of them is a cursor with multiple arrows to the right, which selects all media to the end of the timeline.
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I’ve had success with this issue by toggling the “show audio waveform” button.
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Y Pb Pr and SDI are two different things. If your footage is at DVCPRO-50, it will stay that way regardless if you use SDI or Firewire (unless you convert the SDI stream to a less-compressed or un-compressed format – which won’t add any image information back, so it won’t look or key any better), however, if you go Y Pb Pr, then you are doing a D/A conversion and then an A/D conversion to capture so that would degrade the image. DVCPRO-50 is 4:2:2 and keys quite well, so it really doesn’t matter which way you get it in the system.
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Buy a Yamaha “MG” series mixer. Superior to the Behringers and Mackies in every way and only slightly more expensive.
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Are you sure you are not monitoring a track with the camera mic? It’s very unlikely that a lav would be picking up that much room tone, unless it was a cardioid that was improperly placed or had fallen from the clip.
Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done to rectify such a recording. My suggestion would be to try a noise gate with a soft threshold to reduce the reflection (echo).
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Why don’t you transfer the data from the FW drives to the Huge drive (G5) and erase the FW drives (after confirming the transfer), then do the same thing with the internal ATA RAID? ATA > FW > Huge.
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“To use Avid, boot from the Windows side…and you also have all your old Mac favorites on the OSX side of the boot”
It would be like having a Ferrari and trailering it behind a Datsun pickup.
(yes I said Datsun)
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Michael,
I have seen better reception from an all-in-one handheld (mic&transmitter in one housing) than from the Snap-on units, however, the downside is this: If you ever have problems with the mic or transmitter, the other half of it becomes useless. I think that since the transmitter is built into the mic it has a better antenna position. The plug-on units have to use a less-than-ideal antenna postion. The sound quality is generally identical between the two types.You should be able to setup your system and TEST it within a few minutes. A few pointers:
– Always use fresh batteries at the start of the day. Remove the used bats form the unit at the end of the day. I save my used batteries for other, less critical uses.
– Turn the system on and walk around and use it for a few hours. Make sure that no intermittent interference occurs on the channel(s) you intend to use. Doing this will also warm-up the system and check against faulty manufacturing.
– Keep the receiver away from large metal objects and high-voltage sources. This includes cables.
– Set levels and such from the camera backwards. In other words, set the camera inputs for standard “line levels”, which in the case of the DVX100, are +4db. Adjust the input GAIN on the camera to unity. This will be a indicated by a “U” or sometimes it’s at “7” – check the manual. Then adjust the level of the transmitter to indicate proper levels on the camera meters. This way, when you switch out the wireless for a wired mic, or just change mics, you will have a standard setting in which to reproduce later.-Wireless systems are assigned ‘frequency blocks’ (the”B-block you referred to). Purchase the best frequency block for your area. See the link below.
https://www.sennheiserusa.com/newsite/mat_dev/frequencyfinder/Freqfinder-ew.asp
Always buy additional receivers and transmitters in that block and you should have no problems.
– The DVX100 is so small that it’s hard mount a receiver, but you can buy mounts for most models that can be attached to the hot-shoe or battery. Try TAI Audio or Location Sound.
https://www.taiaudio.com/catalog/index.php
https://www.locationsound.com/proaudio/ls/index.html