Digi8 / DV native audio sample rate?

MixNut wrote on 8/26/2002, 3:17 PM

Hello,

Another video newbie question:

I recently captured tons of shots from various VHS tapes via a SONY Digi8 camera [as A/D] and firewire card. The clips were saved by Vegas Capture with audio at 32kHz, 16bit stereo [I could find no default settings for incoming audio within the NTSC DV setting]. Once I trimmed and sequenced the shots on an EDL, I laid them back to a Digi8 tape in the same camera. When I did the layback I defined the output sample rate of VV3 as 48kHz, stereo and dithered since I'll inevitably use this footage as B-roll in my work facility which is a 48kHz house.

So...To test that the material is actually stored on the Digi8 tape, I tested by re-capturing some footage from the tape using the SAME capture settings as before...The resultant captured file shows an audio sample rate of 48kHz, 16bit stereo.

Can/does Digi8 store either 32k or 48k? Or am I performing two unnecessary sample rate conversions.

Thanks in advance.

MixNut

Comments

Former user wrote on 8/26/2002, 3:27 PM

Edited due to SF response following.

Dave T2

SonyEPM wrote on 8/26/2002, 3:40 PM

Audio captured as 16/32 was a bug, now fixed in Vegas 3.0c. Update to 3.0c and all should be cool.

MixNut wrote on 8/26/2002, 3:48 PM

I'll say that's a bug!

Crrrap. There's no way to recapture 40+ tapes worth of stuff at this point. Fortunately, the audio is of little or no importance to the project.

But...What *should* it have been? What is the native sample rate for Digi8/DV? What sample rate should I set my buss output to when laying back a finished video?

Thanks for the quick response!

MixNut

SonyEPM wrote on 8/26/2002, 4:10 PM

You should be able to use the old captured clips with little (if any) audible difference. Audio project properties>sample rate/bit depth will not affect your final render. If you render as DV .avi using one of the stock DV templates, all will be cool (templates are all 16/48).

MixNut wrote on 8/26/2002, 4:19 PM

So does this mean that all buss levels and effects [like dither] are bypassed when rendering to DV?

Thanks

SonyEPM wrote on 8/27/2002, 8:42 AM

"So does this mean that all buss levels and effects [like dither] are bypassed when rendering to DV?"

No.