On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 05:39:21 GMT, tonycav@mindspring.com wrote:

>I was reading about the 12 bit audio recording of the VX1000 and was
>wondering how it affects editing.

In Premiere 4.2, seriously, but in P-5 (if you can stand to use
it...;-), it works fine.

>I plan to capture my audio through a standard sound blaster-16 audio
>card, using analog RCA to mini-plug connection into sound card. Does
>this "convert" audio to 16 bit in the resulting sound file?

Yes, but it risks sound synch, which is so good with mini-DV FireWire
capture...! It is a bit time-consuming, but resampling the 12-bit
32-kHz VX-1000 AVI sound in Sound Forge (XP-4 is cheap...) before
working with it in Premiere 4.2 works well...

>In the same way if you take the DV footage and copy it to a betacam
>deck, both video and audio. What is the audio on the betacam tape, is
>it still 12 bit?

No - it is analogue sound, to be converted to whatever by the
acquisition gear...