Posted by nap on 09/16/05 22:12

"Ty Ford" <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 02:50:53 -0400, doc wrote
> (in article <hXtWe.17430$FT6.4281@trndny02>):
>
>> thanks for the input leslie. we currently do commercials but are
>> upgrading
>> to a three camera arrangment as we just signed an 3 year contract with
>> optiions through year 5 for producing 52 weekly shows for a client and
>> we're
>> planning to do it all digital outputing to DVD, SVHS, Betacam, and
>> DVCPro,
>> for our clients TV networks and for us it will be our biggest deal ever.
>> the shows are 28 1/2 mins and we want to do a nice job and thus want to
>> have
>> very very high SD 4:3 and options for HD at some point if the client
>> wants
>> to move in that direction. we have to be ready to go guns in december
>> and
>> i've been studying hard on Liquid Edition 6 Pro to do the multicam and
>> get
>> up to speed. we're editing on a new pentium D dual core 32.0 ghz with
>> 1mb
>> L2 cache each core and 2 gb 4200 ddr2 533hz ram
>>
>> btw, do you know if the FX1 will record in SD 4:3 or is it 16:9 only all
>> the
>> way since its' standard is HD?
>>
>> would love to do doco's :o)
>>
>> doc
>>
>
> It may be useful to know that the audio spec for HDV is NOT linear PCM (48
> kHz 16-bit). It's 384 kbps stereo MPEG2, which contains about 25% of the
> data
> of a regular PCM stream.
>
> While the audio remains OK, upon playback, I'm still waiting to hear from
> people who have done a full post production to DVD process to hear how the
> multiple conversions might have compromised the audio.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ty Ford

Its even worse than that in my opinion. I just finished a music vid shot in
HDV (2) camera on a stage. So I cut in HDV. We started with the master PCM
wave file and after ONE render for the final mix the audio was unusable. I
had to lay the original audio back to the digibeta at the mix.

I am not going to bother with HDV. Going to wait until the next solution
arrives as this is a bandaid.


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> -- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other
> audiocentric
> stuff are at www.tyford.com
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