Wilmar Luna
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This sounds great, please send me an e-mail with what it entails.
Also, if your services are for hire I can e-mail my producer and see if he can pay whatever fee you may have.
My e-mail is:
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Dear Jeff,
First off I want to thank you for consistently replying to my posts. After reading what you said I gave my project and camera another look over.
I noticed that my camera was set to record 12bit audio and on playback the channel was on 1.
My settings in Premiere Pro are set to ONLY accept 16bit audio and everything I have pretty much worked with is set to 16 bit. Is it possible that when I plugged into the mic, it recorded everything in 12bit and therefore this is the source of my frustration!?
I’m tempted to edit the original source audio in Soundbooth and convert them to 16 bit, but I’m afraid of losing yet another DVD if this fails.
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I totally understand the confusion, I am confused as well. The reason I believe it is the camera is because this has not only happened on my machine.
This has happened on two separate different machines shot on different dates. All issues happened ONLY when using the external mic on the camera.
There was a project that I handed over to someone else, they burned a DVD for me and I did not touch the footage at all. The audio was STILL gone and in this case the microphone was connected via mini-XLR to a wireless lavalier.
The speaker icons in Premiere are in Stereo and Encore when I click on the Build Project button, says that there are no errors. It prevents me from burning if there are. I could attach screenshots of my premiere pro project and Encore settings if it will illuminate what’s going on.
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I apologize for the confusion, I haven’t been taking the time to properly write out my thoughts.
1.) I am actually a little bit familiar with authoring. I use Encore most of the time to do my DVD’s. I have used it to produce my demo reels onto DVD, and the reels always have audio working properly. I use Premiere Pro-Export to Encore-burn DVD.
Lately however, with my windows 7 update. My LG burner/lightscribe drive no longer works properly with Windows 7. So I’ve had to use the secondary drive underneath. Now I have to manually set the settings in Encore. Export as MPEG 2 DVD, import video, import audio, link to the timeline, etc. burn DVD.
2.) I’ve used video DVD with nero and windows DVD maker and still ran into the same problem. However, just for kicks I created a DVD of my demo reel and the audio played perfectly on DVD players 360, PC, PS3 and basically all formats. This was also using my secondary drive making sure nothing was wrong with my secondary drive.
Here’s my theory on what’s happening.
I believe that the audio track that was recorded with an external mic through my channel was in reality recorded in MONO. HOWEVER! Premiere Pro didn’t recognize the audio as Mono and therefore imported it as Stereo. I looked at the audio mix in the HDR FX7 settings and it looked like it was set to channel 1. I changed it to MIX but haven’t tested any external mic yet.
If I am right, by setting it to mix it should record both channels and be TRUE stereo. Premiere Pro didn’t recognize it as mono and therefore let me edit my whole piece thinking everything was recorded in stereo. Hence why DVD players, and PC speakers only recognize it as a mono track.
Because the demo reel exported properly I’ve ruled out that the problem isn’t with how I author, premiere pro export settings, encore burn settings, or my DVD player, this leads me to believe that the camera is the culprit as it ONLY happens when the external mic is plugged in. Further evidence that leads me to this conclusion is that when the Mic is NOT plugged in and I’m using just the shotgun mic; the audio plays perfectly.
I have to run some tests but I do think this is the problem. If you have any further theories or insights, please let me know I would greatly appreciate it.
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Yes there’s a folder that says VIDEO_TS and inside the folder are VOB files. On the outside are the encore files that I used to build the DVD with a start action and end action.
The audio channels are already mixed together in Premiere Pro, when it was recorded it was recorded in Stereo, no mono tracks. I even tried mixing down ALL of the tracks together into one master audio file, but that didn’t work either.
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Right now I’m using Adobe Encore CS3. When I do the export settings I have so far used Adobe Media Encoder and exported to MPEG 2 DVD as I want it to play on DVD players.
Here is the kicker though, I thought it would be the export setings too but there was another test I ran by accident which points to a different problem.
I had given some Mini-DV tapes to a collegue of mine to export onto DVD. She used mini dv-DVD deck and captured all of my footage and exported straight to DVD. Once the camera got plugged into the external mic lavalier. The audio would disappear on DVD but when you played it on PC it would be present!
She used completely different export settings that were not adobe related or even anything related to Windows.