Posted by doc on 09/17/05 17:04

this was with the FX1 right? this is something that i learned yesterday
that the audio format in the sony fx1 SUX!

doc

"nap" <gospam@yourself.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other
>> audiocentric
>> stuff are at www.tyford.com
>>
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