My main question pertains to 24/96 vs. 24/48.
I have a new Presonus FP10 (old Firepod) and am putting it through stress testing prior to a shoot of an acoustic concert. I'll be getting a stereo mix from the mixer as well as some feeds from a mic and three guitars. I will be focusing on the video part mostly, a couple of audio people will be manning the sound part.
I am running the FP10 (firewire) into a dual core Gateway laptop (not Core 2 Duo) running Vegas 8a. All seems working fine after I have been testing it a bit. My laptop got flakey after an accidental powerdown with settings at 24/96, but a restart of Vegas solved that. 100GB free disc space on the laptop. I am running the FP10 ASIO drivers, although I did download and install the ASIO4ALL drivers just in case. Vegas seems very nice and solid
The shoot will be an FX1 with two HC7s, so it would be nice to go to Blue Ray in the future, strictly SD now.
One of the main sound guys will also capture (redundant) from the Mackie 1640 to his computer, but he said he usually captures at 24/44 (?) since he is not in the DVD world, just CDs. I told him I needed at least 24/48, and he said that he could not reliably do 24/96 using the supplied software that came with the Mackie. I think his problem is he is not using Vegas!
Will 96Khz give me that much more benefit vs 48Khz weighed against any throughput risks I may encounter? FP10 runs 8 line/mic inputs. Also consider my desire to go to BluRay in the future with this.
Any comments and horror stories welcome!
Edited:
Another question I meant to mention was is it safe to run the recording straight through, or is it safer to stop say between main show/encore or more frequently ( remember we have redundant audio captures) as there will be sections of talking like in a Storytellers show.
I have a new Presonus FP10 (old Firepod) and am putting it through stress testing prior to a shoot of an acoustic concert. I'll be getting a stereo mix from the mixer as well as some feeds from a mic and three guitars. I will be focusing on the video part mostly, a couple of audio people will be manning the sound part.
I am running the FP10 (firewire) into a dual core Gateway laptop (not Core 2 Duo) running Vegas 8a. All seems working fine after I have been testing it a bit. My laptop got flakey after an accidental powerdown with settings at 24/96, but a restart of Vegas solved that. 100GB free disc space on the laptop. I am running the FP10 ASIO drivers, although I did download and install the ASIO4ALL drivers just in case. Vegas seems very nice and solid
The shoot will be an FX1 with two HC7s, so it would be nice to go to Blue Ray in the future, strictly SD now.
One of the main sound guys will also capture (redundant) from the Mackie 1640 to his computer, but he said he usually captures at 24/44 (?) since he is not in the DVD world, just CDs. I told him I needed at least 24/48, and he said that he could not reliably do 24/96 using the supplied software that came with the Mackie. I think his problem is he is not using Vegas!
Will 96Khz give me that much more benefit vs 48Khz weighed against any throughput risks I may encounter? FP10 runs 8 line/mic inputs. Also consider my desire to go to BluRay in the future with this.
Any comments and horror stories welcome!
Edited:
Another question I meant to mention was is it safe to run the recording straight through, or is it safer to stop say between main show/encore or more frequently ( remember we have redundant audio captures) as there will be sections of talking like in a Storytellers show.