Should I run or take on this project?
Shot on Aaton XLR, audio recorded on Zaxcom Deva, 4 tracks of 24bit BWF-P Files, sync SMPTE-EBU-Time Code
Film scanned to DigiBeta. All at 25fps.
Mission: Get everything synced onto a HDD so client can edit in PPro or I could talk them into editing in Vegas or a mixture of the two as I have both. Got all the gear to get the DB captured but the audio freaks me a bit. I have a DAT dub from the Deva but it's a mix down, it's only 16bit and my DAT doesn't read TC (and even if it did I doubt Vegas would handle it). So I could get the disk from the Deva, rent a Deva and backup a step. Why do I want to do this. The audio levels are really low, I guess they wanted to keep the headroom and with that kind of audio kit why not, pity they didn't normalise before bumping it down to 16bit.
Initially I wasn't too worried, everything is slated head and tail so I figured ignore the TC issue and sync off the slates. Except now I find there's some wild audio takes and only ident is the shot list which references TC.
One thing I can say, the Deva sounds pretty damn good. NO noise. Listening to the tracks gives me a good appreciation of the level of chaos on a real film shoot, I'd kind of scoffed at the need for locking everything to TC, if it's slated it's a piece of cake,right. What probably isn't such a piece fo cake is when some poor soul in post who wasn't at the shoot has got to make some sense out of all the bits of vision and audio and all he's got is a cryptic shot list and hopefully TC to guide them.
The other alternative the client would accept. Line up all the audio and record it back to DB with the vision and 4 tracks of audio. I think I'm out of luck with this option, Vegas will capture all the tracks off DB, don't know if it'll PTT with them.
Bob.
Shot on Aaton XLR, audio recorded on Zaxcom Deva, 4 tracks of 24bit BWF-P Files, sync SMPTE-EBU-Time Code
Film scanned to DigiBeta. All at 25fps.
Mission: Get everything synced onto a HDD so client can edit in PPro or I could talk them into editing in Vegas or a mixture of the two as I have both. Got all the gear to get the DB captured but the audio freaks me a bit. I have a DAT dub from the Deva but it's a mix down, it's only 16bit and my DAT doesn't read TC (and even if it did I doubt Vegas would handle it). So I could get the disk from the Deva, rent a Deva and backup a step. Why do I want to do this. The audio levels are really low, I guess they wanted to keep the headroom and with that kind of audio kit why not, pity they didn't normalise before bumping it down to 16bit.
Initially I wasn't too worried, everything is slated head and tail so I figured ignore the TC issue and sync off the slates. Except now I find there's some wild audio takes and only ident is the shot list which references TC.
One thing I can say, the Deva sounds pretty damn good. NO noise. Listening to the tracks gives me a good appreciation of the level of chaos on a real film shoot, I'd kind of scoffed at the need for locking everything to TC, if it's slated it's a piece of cake,right. What probably isn't such a piece fo cake is when some poor soul in post who wasn't at the shoot has got to make some sense out of all the bits of vision and audio and all he's got is a cryptic shot list and hopefully TC to guide them.
The other alternative the client would accept. Line up all the audio and record it back to DB with the vision and 4 tracks of audio. I think I'm out of luck with this option, Vegas will capture all the tracks off DB, don't know if it'll PTT with them.
Bob.