On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:01:37 -0000, "Luis Ortega" <lortega@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>actually, while i was working in xpress dv on the first edit, i had a few

>sound clips that were very low and i tried altering them in sound forge.

>then when i went back to the avid timeline, it reported some errors in

>linking or calling those up.

Wrong frequency? 11, 22, 32, or 44KHz instead of 48KHZ

selected?

>i never did the correct way of reimporting the media into avid, as several

>people on the forums told me at the time when i asked about that problem.

>and after i redigitized the avid digital cut into premiere on the laptop, i

>could hear that the sound clip that i had worked on now only came out of the

>left hand speaker of the laptop, although it had no other defects. also, i

>sort of overdid the gain attempts on that clip while still in xpress dv, and

>it was very harsh and the wave pattern of it was severely clipped at both

>top and bottom.

This is a major problem for DV...

>later, in premiere, i tried a few times to make the sound balance out to

>both speakers but it never did, either on the premiere timeline or in any of

>the exports to tape that i made from premiere to the trv900. that same clip

>always sounds like it is only coming out of one side.

There is an audio filter in Premiere that will allow

you to copy the audio with stereo reversed into another

audio track, resulting in mono but even sound between the two channels...

>this isn't the only place that the sound problems happen in the project, but

>if i recall correctly, all of the sound problems that i hear are on sounds

>that were on the same original track that the unbalanced clip was on.

>unfortunately, the original edit in xpress dv has already been deleted and i

>have no way to go back to it to confirm this.

Sounds like this is part of the problem...

>i'll have to try an experiment to recreate something like the original

>project and see if this one variable is significant.

>but why does the premiere timeline sound correct (except for the clip coming

>out of the one speaker only) and the exported tape play ok on the trv900 and

>yet not correct on the gvd300?

The audio-handling on the two (or the head alignment

differences) may account for this, but this doesn't sound

likely...;-)