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larry-peter

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Video

on 1/26/2010

dark footage

Also, have you loaded any apps (particularly Adobe or Autodesk) that may be applying gamma settings on system startup? Not sure, but it seems some apps use these gamma curves on their internal viewers and some ignore them. After I added an Adobe app my uncompressed Quicktimes started appeared darker in the QT player. But rendering the same video as uncompressed AVI and viewing in Media Player looked fine.
Audio

on 6/7/2004

Merciless levels...

I'l have to agree with the majority on this when it comes to music mixes. Ultramaximizers and Finalizers have destroyed sound quality to the point that 20 years from now listeners will be asking, "What the hell were they doing back then?" But since I also do a lot of mixing for television and radio commercials, I have to add that judicial use of slower compressors like Waves RCL can do wonders for intelligibilty of broadcast mixes by reducing the constant pumping that a dynamic mix suffers when going through a bradcast limiter.
Audio

on 5/17/2004

Something weird from Vegas 4 and Soundforge 6?

Every time I've upgraded to the newest version of Vegas (since 1.0) I've had to buy a speedier machine. I'm awfully loyal to the speed of the Vegas interface in general, but as far as track count goes, Nuendo smokes it. Like you, I got tired of adding tracks to see where it would choke. For me, it all started when SF made the decision to "combine" Vegas Audio and Video. I don't like working in Nuendo but I sure wish Sony would take a turn back to the Vegas Audio days and split the audio/video apps up. It has to be the code for video functions that's bogging us audio guys down.
Audio

on 5/9/2004

edit limit? whats yours?

I'm running V4 and on my previous machine, a P4 1.8 gHz with a M-Audio Delta 66 I ran into the same thing at around 30 tracks and 250-300 takes. I always started a submix to get further along. With a P4 3.2 gHz and a Layla 24 no problem. I've been to 48 tracks and recorded with no hiccups. From your posts I've seen, I doubt if computer speed or marginal sound cards can account for your situation, but my problem seemed to be (mainly) the Delta card.
Audio

on 5/7/2004

Quick n' Dirty Survey

Wow. Thanks for caring. Most common delivery format is Sony Digital Betacam 2nd most - MP3 I mix television and radio spots in a post production facility. Some original music composition for the spots as well. Typically, for TV, I'll get production audio as wav files and a WMV from a Media 100 844/x over our internal network. Record voice overs through a Layla 24 into Vegas. Sound Forge if necessary for noise reduction on location tracks. Mix in Vegas. Render 48k WAVs and send back to the Media 100. For music composition I'll use Sonar for midi sequencing and recording then import those tracks into Vegas. Add live musicians/vocalists in Vegas, then mix down to either WAV for the 844/x (TV) or MP3 for radio distribution.
Audio

on 4/28/2004

Echo driver problems

Thank you. I was blinded by my anger. Nice catch.
Audio

on 4/28/2004

Echo driver problems

No dice, Red. same "file read error in.MSI" The add/remove programs utilizes the same uninstall script as the Echo installer does. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Audio

on 4/13/2004

Gain limiter question

I'm not familiar with your exact camera model, but many Sony prosumers of that era only had AGC enabled on the mic inputs. If you have line inputs you may find that an external mic preamp can be used to feed the line ins and you won't encounter the gain limiter circuit. Good Luck.
Audio

on 4/12/2004

Vocals too hot....What to do in post?

Here's something you might try that saved my butt once. It's a tweaked version of the "Voice removal" trick, but doesn't sound quite as bad and can save a little bit of stereo imaging. As usual, the vocals have to be center and mono for it to work at all. Use the track "duplicate" function to make a synced copy of the mix. Apply a "band-pass filter" plug-in, with as sharp a roll-off as you can get from 400 Hz to 2500Hz. (You might be able to get close with a multi-band EQ, but you'll do more damage to the phase of the signal and results won't be as good) Then invert the phase of the filtered track. As you adjust the level of the filtered track you should be able to attenuate the primary voice frequencies without affecting (much) the high and low freqs of the music. Play with the low and high cutoff settings on the filter. The midrange is gonna have wicked cancellation problems, but you might get something salvagable out of it. Dittos on the good luck!
Audio

on 4/12/2004

operating system paranoia

I've heard the same about ME from a lot of people. Seems that with my rig, it actually made things BETTER than with 98SE. Could be the ol' M_Audio driver issues. I don't use my system for anything but audio (90% vegas), so I'm not aware of flakiness with other apps. It just annoys me that we have to suffer through convoluted audio/timing schemes within Windows just so Joe Consumer can have an interface that looks more like a Mac. Anyone out there remember how sweet Vegas Pro ran on Win 95?
Audio

on 4/12/2004

How can V4 punch-in recoarding when playing ??

Split your event (select, place cursor and "s" key) where you want punch to occur. Select the event to record over during punch so it's highlighted. Then click-drag to select a region on the timeline where the recording will take place. Pre-roll will begin at the beginning of the timeline selection and recording will continue till the end of selection. After recording, you will see the highlighted event replaced with new audio take. You can then edit the edges of the new take in either direction, since you have actually recorded a new event for the whole region selected. Only the highlighted event is automatically replaced on the timeline even though you have recorded new audio for the whole selected region. Hope this helps.
Audio

on 4/8/2004

Multitracking with Vegas

Hey Pipe. I always dig your posts. Learned a lot from ya. I don't use any import utility generally. Haven't really looked into them. And I'll attribute that to the fact that I'm not doing straight music mixes. For post production I'm not dealing with a lot of punches, multiple takes, etc. With what I'm usually working with, (5-8 tracks of location audio plus multiple tracks of ambience, sound fx, music stems) I don't want any of their routing, EQ, automation, etc. I ask my client to provide me raw AIFFs of each track from the session from, say, SMPTE 00:00:00:00 to 00:00:30:00. I line them up, add what I need and go. In the post-production world, it's great to have a client to interface with the other studios so I don't have to deal with attitudes or ignorance about what I need. In the few cases where I could only get OMFs I've had reasonable success in importing them in either Nuendo or Logic, then rendering individual tracks after I strip off anything they've added. I'll do this prior to my clients coming in so I can finish totally in Vegas. It sounds like a lot of effort, but I've gotta tell you, in a situation where clients are constantly checking their watches, the speed of the interface impresses them. Vegas really makes me look good. What are your experiences with the EDL import programs? If it seems worthwhile to me, I'll check them out.
Audio

on 4/7/2004

Multitracking with Vegas

Don't sweat the Vegas vs. ProTools arguments. My simple answer is always: efficiency. I mix audio in a high-end film/video post facility with clients sitting over my shoulder. (No, we don't use Vegas for video post. We have multi $100K systems for that.) After seeing what I can accomplish in Vegas/SF in the way of mixing, noise reduction, sound design, etc. in a given amount of time, my clients regularly bring me sessions that were tracked in ProTools for me to mix in Vegas. If you've used both systems, you have to give respect to what PT can do, but there simply is no faster, more efficient mixing interface than Vegas (even without control surfaces, grrr.) You'll seldom be pulling down nested menus or performing multiple key/mouse contortions to get where you want to be. Stick with Vegas, get good plug-ins and LEARN. I have confidence in Sony to take this app to even better places.