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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:19:08 +0800, in rec.video you wrote:

>Thanks David. Some responses in the text. I guess the message will become
>totally unreadable after this!!

Indubitably! Hence the editing...;-)

>: I've saved many a live shoot with Cool Edit's
>: noise-reduction module (www.syntrillium.com).
>: Mixing noise-reduced track (EQ'd) with some of
>: the original (or other) track has given me
>: natural-sounding, but more understandable,
>: speech tracks (I have the "ultimate-horror"
>: story for this one...! ;-).

>Now that's an odd thing - I'm taking time out while Cool Edit 96 is doing
>JUST THAT!

Amazing program, for an amazing price, huh?! ;-)

>: Can you manage small segments of timeline
>: playback? If so, you can send these to tape,
>: and when you have the whole collection,
>: reimport them and reassemble them on the
>: cleaned-off computer (or another computer).
>: Alternately, you can dump maybe 1/3rd of
>: the files associated with the tail end of
>: the project to free up resources, finish
>: the first 2/3rds, put it out to tape, then
>: dump the beginning, reimport the needed
>: material to finish the end, and assemble
>: the parts on another timeline for export.
>: (I used to work on 2-hour Mini-DV projects
>: using only one 8-gig "C" drive and two 9-gig
>: video drives... [it CAN be done! ;-])

>Right now, I'm cleaning up the audio, discarding all the camera tracks and
>the S-VHS tracks that are not totally necessary. I'm using camera sound to
>mask the residual noise on the S-VHS track, and 1 track at 25% to add a
>touch of ambience and audience response where I have PA desk audio cassette
>sound.
>
>Once that is done, I'll see how far I can print to video without
>pixellation, audio breakup or stuttering. Because it's Win98, if I make
>movie, I will have to build up 9 mins at a time and resynching a continuous
>live event is extra work - but do-able of course.

By "print to video", what do you mean...?
Generally, I find best results with Raptor
(least transfer problems) starting the
camera/deck in record mode with tape running,
then hitting the "enter" key to play the
previously rendered video. It helps here,
if things are squirley, to have the preview
files location on a separate disk, or if this
is not possible, to wipe out all the previews,
defrag the disk they will go on, specify that
location in the three places in Premiere,
and then rebuild all the previews at once.

>: >I'll need to make movie, but as I have the system set up under Win98
>(gold)
>: >right now, FAT32/VfW limits me to 2G file on Make Movie - so I have to
>build
>: >it up 9 mins at a time. I am going to try building a .wav file for all
>the
>: >audios and see if that can run with a smooth playback on print to video.

Why "make movie"? Should be unnecessary with
Raptor, though I sometimes do it to bring back
onto the timeline a simplified file to replace
a complicated rendering.

>: Actually, once you have rendered a stretch
>: of video, you have already produced WAV files
>: of the sound track, stored in your preview-files
>: folder. I suspect the problem may be that you
>: have too-filled the program drive for the computer
>: to work efficiently...(?)

>The temp files are on a 27G 7200rpm (ATA66) drive which I defragged during
>the course of the project. The idea of subbing a clean .wav file is to
>reduce the head movements and thus raise disk performance. BTW, Premiere
>does NOTHING if I render audio. With the Raptor plug-in, it <> to
>handle audio in real time. This is good for preview purposes but creates a
>problem when the system can't handle it real time. Perhaps a careful look
>through settings could tease out a way of forcing an audio render.

Hmmmm... If you render the whole project video, in
the process all the tracks get rendered into WAV files,
placed in the preview folder, for later playout...
Here again, I export/import WAV files only to simplify
a track that I may want to apply an overall filter to,
or otherwise change later - otherwise it is unnecessary...

>: You can use the left-side switches to turn-on/off
>: tracks to see all the tracks easily without having
>: to cut and pull-back the video tracks...

>When I used the term "disactivating", I was referring to the "mute" switches
>on the left. Sorry it wasn't clear. I use a mix of both techniques.

Ah, communication...;-)

>: >As I've said, even with a Raptor, this is straining the system. My
>strategy
>: >is to clean up the audio into a .wav file, and sub that for the six audio
>: >tracks. If I can get smooth playback from that, I can master to tape.

Have you played with the interleave numbers? (I use
"one-frame" for both import and export, though with
analogue sources, Canopus recommends something else,
as I recall - but I have had no trouble using
"1-frame" with all audio types.)

>: I think this may not help, but.....
>:
>: >For the next session, I'll rebuild as Win2K dual-boot and swap another
>20G
>: >drive in from another PC, then I can Make Movie if necessary.

>: Why do you need to do this? You cannot do a direct
>: playback to tape from the timeline, using the tape
>: as master?
[Using "preview" instead of "print to video".]

>Stuttering and pixelation - I was heading for a print to video and then
>found my performance issues. The work in hand might have the effect of
>streamlining the project enough to play off the timeline. I hope so.

Hey good luck! The type of problem you've had
is a real hair-puller!