On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:04:45 -0500, "Damian Bradley" <dbradley@kingston.net> wrote:

>> If you dumped via 1394, your levels will be determined by your NLE,

>> unchangeable on the recorder. If you went analog, -20dBFS is the usual

>> setting. I'm not clear on your P.A. setup, though. It sounds like, all

>> things being equal, that your playback deck/mix/attenuation was the issue.

>So if I turn down the master gain on the NLE (premiere) to -20db, record

>this onto the DV deck, the analog outputs on said deck should be at the

>proper levels for the PA setup. Does this sound right?

No. Record proper levels in the NLE, then adjust

inputs/outputs at the PA for proper house levels...

You can check in Premiere for clipping, but I find it

easy to export to whole audio track of a project,

spread it over two monitors in a graphically-nice

WAV-editor like Cool Edit (www.syntrillium.com),

and just look for clipping ("magnifying" the parts

that are questionable, BTW, often reveals that only

a cycle or two really clip - and this is generally

not a problem...). If there is a problem area, I then

go back into Premiere and adjust the clipping areas

down, using the "rubber-band" audio level-adjusts

(rather than lowering the level of the whole clip...).

BTW, I do not recommend using "normalize" except to

check headroom for a particular clip - if you

normalize all tracks, the average levels will vary,

and not match.