Friday, July 10, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] UPS Blues "Connect Battery Error?"

Okay I stepped into this online. Probably not worth perusing but for anyone else watching the render bar take a look at this. I find Resolve and Fusion and everything else confusing enough but now this when all I thought was maybe the batteries needed replacement. Looks like there is an entire career set to programming APC UPSs.

From a google:

Manually Resetting an APC Smart-UPS Battery Constant After New Battery Replacement

March 27, 2011

I came across a Smart UPS 1500 that needed a battery replacement recently. After the replacement battery was installed, I ran a self-test like I normally do to clear alarms on the unit. I noticed that the self-test reported that the battery had a runtime remaining of 0 minutes and a 20% capacity. I decided to let the battery charge up to 100% and then try a runtime calibration.

Later that evening, the UPS was reporting that the battery had 100% capacity and a runtime of 3 minutes with a very minimal load. I ran the runtime calibration and the runtime dropped immediately to 0 minutes with a 20% charge. I thought that the battery might be faulty at this point.

The customer happened to have another battery there to try. We put the battery in and testing showed the same exact symptoms. Therefore the problem must be with the UPS and not the batteries.

APC's forum quotes "The battery constants give the battery status via their life expectancy. If the battery ages and is 'exhausted', the constant is overwritten. The management software calculates the runtime of the UPS with these constants. If the battery is now replaced, a self test must be done with the new batteries. Through it, the red battery replace indicator goes out and the battery constants should be reset to the standard settings. This does not occur in some cases. Therefore, the constants must be reset manually in order to correct this situation."

Through research, I came across this article http://www.rm.com/Support/TechnicalArticle.asp?cref=TEC817072 which describes how to reset the battery constant manually. The only problem is that this has to be done by physically connecting the serial cable to the UPS, so I was not able to try this out yet. Since each UPS has different constant variables, you will have to call APC support and ask them what to set it to. [more]

Here are the steps listed using Hyperterminal from the hyperlink above:

In order to successfully reset the battery constant, all accompanying devices (SmartSlot Accessories such as Interface Expander, Web/SNMP Management Card) must be removed from the SmartSlot or from the Com port of the UPS.

Please shut off all connected load, switch off the UPS, pull the power plug of the UPS.
Switch off the UPS once again till you hear a click.
Remove all accompanying devices.
Turn on the UPS again and connect a computer with Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT 4.0 or Win 2000, which runs on Hyperterminal using one of the cables mentioned under the requirements.
Close Powerchute plus-Server. With Windows NT/2000, the UPS service must be stopped. If you are using PowerChute Business Edition, stop the Agent *V service.
Perform a Battery Constants check.
Start a Hyperterminal session with the UPS. Note: Ensure that there are no accessories plugged into the UPS. (Web Management cards, IO Relay cards etc)
Start Hyperterminal by going to Start, Programs, Accessories, Communications, Hyperterminal.
You will be requested to enter a name and a symbol. Enter a favourite name and click on OK. When a message that a modem must be installed appears, you can ignore this message.
Select the serial port to which black serial cable is connected to. The correct settings for the COM-connection are 2400 Baud, 8 data bits, 1 Stop bit, no parity, protocol Xon/Xoff. In this window, click on Advanced and make sure that the option FIFO activated is unchecked. Click twice on OK.
Check if there is a connection (Type Shift + Y, should return **SM** ). Do not enter any other characters via Hyperterminal other than that described in these instructions because this can cause irreparable damage to the UPS
Type **1**, wait 2-3 secs and type **1** again (Should return **Prog**)
Enter a **0** and the UPS reports the present value of the battery constant. If this value does not correspond to the default value that was given to you by RM Support or APC , it must be changed.
If this value is not correct, press **+** or **-** until the correct value is returned.
Press **R** to close the session. (Should return **Bye**)
Enter **<Shift> Y**, the UPS reports again with **SM**.
Enter **0** once again and check if the UPS reports back the standard setting that has been set.
Close Hyperterminal, start the UPS again and check the UPS runtime in the management software.

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[Avid-L2] UPS Blues "Connect Battery Error?"

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UPSs are always wearing out. At work one on my edit computer was beeping and turning on and off after who knows what happened. Unplugging it stopped the power on off cycle but then it said connect battery. I pulled the battery and checked the voltage on the pack and it was 52 volts. I opened it and checked each battery and the they were all 13 volts ish. I tried the battery pack in another APC 1500 unit and unfortunately that unit just clicks on power briefly and shuts off and keeps repeating that cycle even with no battery connected.

I went into the about and diagnostic menus and found that the unitis from June 2015 and there is a menu item that says replace battery June 2020. Well that pretty much coincides with this behavior. The bay has been on but unattended due to Covid. So the battery pack tests okay for voltage but the chassis still says connect battery even though it's connected. I realize a battery pack with no load isn't a real comprehensive test but the other unit's battery pack was clearly defective reading on 13 volts and one of the batterys had bubbled up.

I set it to advance menu to see if there was a way to reset the change battery menu item but didn't find anything. I did a factory reset but still it says connect battery. Is it possible the menu item that says change battery June 2020 would invoke the connect battery message and stop the unit from actually charging the battery? I wouldn't think so but since it's a menu item how does one reset it?

This is an APC 1500 rack mount unit circa 2015 with the digital readout on the right side. Not the older one with simple buttons on the front panel.

Anybody played around with these under the hood.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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[Avid-L2] UPS Blues "Connect Battery Error?"

This is an APC 1500 rack mount unit circa 2015 with the digital readout on the right side. Not the older one with simple buttons on the front panel.

Anybody played around with these under the hood.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Audio Delivery Requirements with Channel Labeling?

Thank you for all the useful info. I'll play around with audio extras.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 06:51 AM, Jeffrey Lomicka wrote:

Media composer has two tools to help you through this.

The first is that Media Composer doesn't often take channel groupings (into stereo and surround) from metadata in ingest. In most cases, you have to set it yourself. From the "bin" menu, "modify clip"/"multichannel audio" lets you assign, or re-assign channel gropings in any master clip into stereo and surround sets of various track orders. Remember, this is telling Media Composer what the clip IS, not what you want it to be. If it came in SMPTE order, tell it SMPTE. You can use this to add or override the metadata coming in with your source material.

The second is for cases where you need to export channel groupings from a more complex sequence, and have a variety of source clips with panning information. In this case, use Timeline/Mixdown/Audio/Multiple Mix dialog. This tool will create for you a new sequence, but with audio mixed down into the channel arrangement you need for delivery. For example, if you need to deliver channels 1-6 and a surround set, and 7-8 as a stereo pair, you can set up two mixdowns in the multiple mix tool (and save them for later), and when you use it, it creates a new sequence with all the original video tracks, but with all of the audio mixed down into the requested tracks, fully flattened including master fader AAX effects. If you are starting with material that is pre-mixed or otherwise has dedicated LFE tracks, you will want to read my earlier reply today about the "audioextras" console command and the "allow LFE-only tracks" checkbox.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Audio Delivery Requirements with Channel Labeling?

Media composer has two tools to help you through this.

The first is that Media Composer doesn't often take channel groupings (into stereo and surround) from metadata in ingest. In most cases, you have to set it yourself. From the "bin" menu, "modify clip"/"multichannel audio" lets you assign, or re-assign channel gropings in any master clip into stereo and surround sets of various track orders. Remember, this is telling Media Composer what the clip IS, not what you want it to be. If it came in SMPTE order, tell it SMPTE. You can use this to add or override the metadata coming in with your source material.

The second is for cases where you need to export channel groupings from a more complex sequence, and have a variety of source clips with panning information. In this case, use Timeline/Mixdown/Audio/Multiple Mix dialog. This tool will create for you a new sequence, but with audio mixed down into the channel arrangement you need for delivery. For example, if you need to deliver channels 1-6 and a surround set, and 7-8 as a stereo pair, you can set up two mixdowns in the multiple mix tool (and save them for later), and when you use it, it creates a new sequence with all the original video tracks, but with all of the audio mixed down into the requested tracks, fully flattened including master fader AAX effects. If you are starting with material that is pre-mixed or otherwise has dedicated LFE tracks, you will want to read my earlier reply today about the "audioextras" console command and the "allow LFE-only tracks" checkbox.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

To recreate a single 5.1 track from six discrete mono tracks, the general idea is to just set the pan on each track to the appropriate corner of the surround pan field. However, for LFE there is a trick. You need to issue the "audioextras" console command and check "Allow LFE-only tracks". With that set, in the audio mixer, left-click on the LFE track and check "LFE-Only". the panner will disappear, and the track will now play directly to the LFE channel.

Having made sure you set the pan on all clips in all five of the other tracks, (there's a menu item for that), you can mix down your six tracks into a single 5.1 track.

Of course, you have to have your project mix mode set to 5.1 surround. (Top left corner of audio mixer.)

Your LFE-Only track attribute will survive sharing bins with other MC users that haven't set the audioextra bit, but it won't survive AAF or a trip into Pro Tools. The resulting mix down track, of course, will survive, as it's new media.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

Heard from Avid Support very quickly. I will try upgrading once my current project is over.:

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Thank you for contacting Avid Global Customer Care.     Based on your description it sounds like this could be the result of a bug we fixed, which is MCCET-2619 (mentioned on page 22 here: http://resources.avid.com/SupportFiles/attach/MediaComposer2018Fixes.pdf). The strange thing is that we fixed that in 2018.10, but it is possible it broke again in 2018.12.7. Would you mind testing 2018.12.11 to check if it makes any difference?     Can you also let us know which version of Pro Tools created the AAF?

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Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

Export direct out based on current monitoring also a long time feature request. It’s almost like they tune me out 😂😂😂

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Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

Avid is PT order internally. And doesn’t have bussing (longtime feature request).

So it gets very messy if you need to output SMPTE order *and* have stereo or mono sources in the timeline.

For live turnaround I end up working with mainly stereo & mono tracks routed to correct outputs then use multiple mixdowns to get them to the right place for export. Requires creating another sequence as multiple mixdown not available on export (long time feature request) although it is available on send to playback.

Previously, if using 5.1 clips in the timeline, the mixdown could get a bit funky (PT/SMPTE translations) so I avoided them.

Recently did testing for 5.1.8 workflows using 7.1 clip to hold the last 8 and that worked OK. Event got postponed though...

(Reason we don’t just use 5.1 clips is need to edit, augment front, remove centre etc etc)

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Monday, July 6, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

What I ended up doing was making my normal 16 channels of mono with the 5 stereo pairs on Ch 1&2, 3&4 etc... Then 5.1 on 11-16 in order (L, R, C, Lfe, Ls, Rs). I took the resulting 4096_2160 ProResHQ into Resolve and made it a sequence with 16 mono tracks. Then Fairlight will link tracks as stereo or 5.1. Then you create 6 master busses the first 5 stereo and 6 a 5.1 track. I let Resolve scale to fit for a UHD letter box and output a ProResHQ from there. In QT 7 Pro the resulting file shows 6 tracks first 5 stereo pairs and the 6th track a 5.1 in smpte order.

I was able to get the protools aaf with 5 stereo tracks and the 6th a 5.1 track to work in Avid but as I posted before the 5.1 order of ProTools is different from the smpte order. It seems that making a mixdown from 6 mono track to a 5.1 track doesn't work. I end up with only two tracks with audio and it seems like odd tracks are multed and even tracks are multed. I tried switching the sequence setting to 5.1 instead of stereo in the mixing tool but no change.

When I brought the above mention 6 interleaved track file into Avid by linking to it it showed up as 16 mono tracks all in the original sequence order. So whatever is understood by QTPro 7 as interleaved or multichannel tracks is not understood when Avid links to the file.

I do have your QT map app that I've used to create interleaved audio on .movs in the past. It was life saver on a live show where the remote truck playout server couldn't understand interleaved audio tracks.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 07:06 PM, bouke wrote:

No clue about PT, but again, this thing can remap / go from mono to poly or vice versa:
https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/loudness-change/

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On 06 Jul 2020, at 19:54, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I never deal with stereo or 5.1 audio stems in Avid. I've occasionally dabbled with stereo tracks but my delivery needs are always discrete mono stems until now. I need 5 stereo tracks and the 6th track is 5.1. I had protools generate an aaf with that configuration but I'm told that protools can only make a 5.1 track in protools order which is not smpte order which the delivery requires.

I googled and thought I could just take the 6 tracks in proper order and do an audio mixdown to a 5.1 track. When I do this I only see two channels of audio on the audio meters. I played with pass through setting it to 8 channel direct. I also played with the 5.1 order checkboxes but still just two tracks. I do see it sometimes show tone on tracks one and two and sometimes on one and three. Displaying waveforms I see what look like 6 track lines for the 5.1 channel but only two show tone. The tone is hot so it seems like when the mixdown is made the 6 tracks are getting summed into two tracks.

Making a stereo mixdown from two mono tracks seems to work. I tried a new user setting just to eliminate some whacky legacy setting I might have but that didn't change this behavior. If I take the 5.1 track that came from protools it does give me 6 discrete channels but they are in the wrong order. I see in clip modification I can tell Avid what order the 5.1 track is in but will that allow me to remap the track assignments to smpte order?

At this point I'm just going to output discrete audio tracks and take the file into Resolve where I'm use to linking tracks and assigning them to be stereo or 5.1. Seems like I'm missing something obvious or there's a bug. I'm mc 2018.12.7 on mac with DNxIO. I tried disabling hardware to see if that plays into it but no change.

Any suggestions on these 5.1 tracks or if there is a way that ProTools can export a 5.1 audio track in other than protools order would be welcome.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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Re: [Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

No clue about PT, but again, this thing can remap / go from mono to poly or vice versa:

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/loudness-change/

Bouke

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On 06 Jul 2020, at 19:54, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I never deal with stereo or 5.1 audio stems in Avid. I've occasionally dabbled with stereo tracks but my delivery needs are always discrete mono stems until now. I need 5 stereo tracks and the 6th track is 5.1. I had protools generate an aaf with that configuration but I'm told that protools can only make a 5.1 track in protools order which is not smpte order which the delivery requires.

I googled and thought I could just take the 6 tracks in proper order and do an audio mixdown to a 5.1 track. When I do this I only see two channels of audio on the audio meters. I played with pass through setting it to 8 channel direct. I also played with the 5.1 order checkboxes but still just two tracks. I do see it sometimes show tone on tracks one and two and sometimes on one and three. Displaying waveforms I see what look like 6 track lines for the 5.1 channel but only two show tone. The tone is hot so it seems like when the mixdown is made the 6 tracks are getting summed into two tracks.

Making a stereo mixdown from two mono tracks seems to work. I tried a new user setting just to eliminate some whacky legacy setting I might have but that didn't change this behavior. If I take the 5.1 track that came from protools it does give me 6 discrete channels but they are in the wrong order. I see in clip modification I can tell Avid what order the 5.1 track is in but will that allow me to remap the track assignments to smpte order?

At this point I'm just going to output discrete audio tracks and take the file into Resolve where I'm use to linking tracks and assigning them to be stereo or 5.1. Seems like I'm missing something obvious or there's a bug. I'm mc 2018.12.7 on mac with DNxIO. I tried disabling hardware to see if that plays into it but no change.

Any suggestions on these 5.1 tracks or if there is a way that ProTools can export a 5.1 audio track in other than protools order would be welcome.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

[Avid-L2] Can Avid Mixdown 6 mono 5.1 tracks to 5.1 audio mixdown?

I never deal with stereo or 5.1 audio stems in Avid. I've occasionally dabbled with stereo tracks but my delivery needs are always discrete mono stems until now. I need 5 stereo tracks and the 6th track is 5.1. I had protools generate an aaf with that configuration but I'm told that protools can only make a 5.1 track in protools order which is not smpte order which the delivery requires.

I googled and thought I could just take the 6 tracks in proper order and do an audio mixdown to a 5.1 track. When I do this I only see two channels of audio on the audio meters. I played with pass through setting it to 8 channel direct. I also played with the 5.1 order checkboxes but still just two tracks. I do see it sometimes show tone on tracks one and two and sometimes on one and three. Displaying waveforms I see what look like 6 track lines for the 5.1 channel but only two show tone. The tone is hot so it seems like when the mixdown is made the 6 tracks are getting summed into two tracks.

Making a stereo mixdown from two mono tracks seems to work. I tried a new user setting just to eliminate some whacky legacy setting I might have but that didn't change this behavior. If I take the 5.1 track that came from protools it does give me 6 discrete channels but they are in the wrong order. I see in clip modification I can tell Avid what order the 5.1 track is in but will that allow me to remap the track assignments to smpte order?

At this point I'm just going to output discrete audio tracks and take the file into Resolve where I'm use to linking tracks and assigning them to be stereo or 5.1. Seems like I'm missing something obvious or there's a bug. I'm mc 2018.12.7 on mac with DNxIO. I tried disabling hardware to see if that plays into it but no change.

Any suggestions on these 5.1 tracks or if there is a way that ProTools can export a 5.1 audio track in other than protools order would be welcome.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

Re: [Avid-L2] Audio Delivery Requirements with Channel Labeling?

I'm confused as well. I didn't realize the SMPTE ST 377-4:2012 was for MXF. Originally I thought these interleaved tracks were just for the IMF delivery and that the ProResHQ files would be more typical mono tracks. Upon further digging into a later page in the delivery specs it appears they also want interleaved, is it correct to call them muxed?, tracks in ProResHQ file. So now we have an aaf from protools and found the correct checkbox to create what Protools call multichannel export tracks. The only remaining issue is that I'm told ProTools doesn't export 5.1 multichannel tracks in SMPTE order (L,R,C, Lfe, Ls, Rs) so I may have to create an audio mixdown of the 5.1 tracks from the mono stems.

I'm wondering if wav stems out of ProTools would be more reliable for these interleaved tracks because in googling I read that with AAFs the audio media is still mono tracks joined by metadata. Does a wav polyphonic track have separate tracks under the hood that are joined by metadata or are they a homogenized track muxing the audio media?

All my past experience has been that the networks I've delivered to didn't want interleaved tracks which I think had something to do with how their media servers worked.

Here is a screen grab of ProTools export box:

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 04:13 AM, bouke wrote:

I'm getting confused.
Your original specs refer to SMPTE ST 377-4:2012. This is about MXF.

Now, for remapping Wave files from mono to poly / channel mapping, I'm currently working on that.

(And more, it can also correct / measure loudness, correct stems, omit Theatrical etc.)

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/loudness-change/

(web page needs an update, but the demo is the latest (for now, I'll make updates all the time.)

Bouke

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On 06 Jul 2020, at 08:06, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I asked the protools mixer to give me an aaf with interleaved stereo and 5.1 tracks but when I import them they come in all mono tracks. Also he said that ProTools can not make an interleaved 5.1 track to smpte order of (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs). What's up with this? I googled and found that the media essence stays mono but metadata joins the tracks. Ultimately the delivery want 5 Stereo track (1-5) and one 5.1 track (6). I figured if the aaf came in that way it would go out that way. My other option is to audio mixdown to interleaved tracks. Perhaps I should just chuck out the whole aaf and just go for wav files as I assume they are immune to the Avid confusing, and perhaps proprietary, multichannel track metadata.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 06:12 AM, <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't really have an answer for you, but does the spec require a QuickTime file? Or is MXF a possibility?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:47 PM John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I got the following delivery specs for audio. I'm use to delivering mono stems that I label using the preset names available in QT 7 for (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs) Lt,Rt. But this delivery spec wants stereo and 5.1 tracks. I suppose I could turn the tracks into stereo and 5.1 in Avid before exporting a QT Ref or maybe even a same as source. What I'm not sure of is the labeling requriements mentioned. Where do you add the labels? I guess I've been doing it in QT 7 as mentioned above but that only has certain name choices. Any insight would be appreciated.

DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS

UNSCRIPTED SERIES / SPECIALS (IN-HOUSE) 22 of 40

HBO MAX Post-Production Revised 5-7-20

Audio Technical

• Each Soundfield group MUST be arranged into a single track. e.g. 5.1 would be a single track

with 6 channels.

• All Audio channels MUST be labeled in the file metadata using Multichannel Audio

Labeling as specified in SMPTE ST 377-4:2012.

• Stereo labels MUST match the method used to create the sound field: LtRt for matrixed

downmix, LoRo for simple downmix, LR for stereo mix.

• All audio tracks MUST conform (be synchronous) with video and have the same duration.

• Near field mixes are preferred over a Theatrical.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

Re: [Avid-L2] Audio Delivery Requirements with Channel Labeling?

I'm getting confused.

Your original specs refer to SMPTE ST 377-4:2012. This is about MXF.

Now, for remapping Wave files from mono to poly / channel mapping, I'm currently working on that.

(And more, it can also correct / measure loudness, correct stems, omit Theatrical etc.)

https://www.videotoolshed.com/product/loudness-change/

(web page needs an update, but the demo is the latest (for now, I'll make updates all the time.)

Bouke

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On 06 Jul 2020, at 08:06, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I asked the protools mixer to give me an aaf with interleaved stereo and 5.1 tracks but when I import them they come in all mono tracks. Also he said that ProTools can not make an interleaved 5.1 track to smpte order of (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs). What's up with this? I googled and found that the media essence stays mono but metadata joins the tracks. Ultimately the delivery want 5 Stereo track (1-5) and one 5.1 track (6). I figured if the aaf came in that way it would go out that way. My other option is to audio mixdown to interleaved tracks. Perhaps I should just chuck out the whole aaf and just go for wav files as I assume they are immune to the Avid confusing, and perhaps proprietary, multichannel track metadata.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 06:12 AM, <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't really have an answer for you, but does the spec require a QuickTime file? Or is MXF a possibility?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:47 PM John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I got the following delivery specs for audio. I'm use to delivering mono stems that I label using the preset names available in QT 7 for (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs) Lt,Rt. But this delivery spec wants stereo and 5.1 tracks. I suppose I could turn the tracks into stereo and 5.1 in Avid before exporting a QT Ref or maybe even a same as source. What I'm not sure of is the labeling requriements mentioned. Where do you add the labels? I guess I've been doing it in QT 7 as mentioned above but that only has certain name choices. Any insight would be appreciated.

DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS

UNSCRIPTED SERIES / SPECIALS (IN-HOUSE) 22 of 40

HBO MAX Post-Production Revised 5-7-20

Audio Technical

• Each Soundfield group MUST be arranged into a single track. e.g. 5.1 would be a single track

with 6 channels.

• All Audio channels MUST be labeled in the file metadata using Multichannel Audio

Labeling as specified in SMPTE ST 377-4:2012.

• Stereo labels MUST match the method used to create the sound field: LtRt for matrixed

downmix, LoRo for simple downmix, LR for stereo mix.

• All audio tracks MUST conform (be synchronous) with video and have the same duration.

• Near field mixes are preferred over a Theatrical.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Re: [Avid-L2] Audio Delivery Requirements with Channel Labeling?

I asked the protools mixer to give me an aaf with interleaved stereo and 5.1 tracks but when I import them they come in all mono tracks. Also he said that ProTools can not make an interleaved 5.1 track to smpte order of (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs). What's up with this? I googled and found that the media essence stays mono but metadata joins the tracks. Ultimately the delivery want 5 Stereo track (1-5) and one 5.1 track (6). I figured if the aaf came in that way it would go out that way. My other option is to audio mixdown to interleaved tracks. Perhaps I should just chuck out the whole aaf and just go for wav files as I assume they are immune to the Avid confusing, and perhaps proprietary, multichannel track metadata.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 06:12 AM, <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

I don’t really have an answer for you, but does the spec require a QuickTime file? Or is MXF a possibility?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:47 PM John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I got the following delivery specs for audio. I'm use to delivering mono stems that I label using the preset names available in QT 7 for (L,R,C,Lfe,Ls,Rs) Lt,Rt. But this delivery spec wants stereo and 5.1 tracks. I suppose I could turn the tracks into stereo and 5.1 in Avid before exporting a QT Ref or maybe even a same as source. What I'm not sure of is the labeling requriements mentioned. Where do you add the labels? I guess I've been doing it in QT 7 as mentioned above but that only has certain name choices. Any insight would be appreciated.

DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS

UNSCRIPTED SERIES / SPECIALS (IN-HOUSE) 22 of 40

HBO MAX Post-Production Revised 5-7-20

Audio Technical

• Each Soundfield group MUST be arranged into a single track. e.g. 5.1 would be a single track

with 6 channels.

• All Audio channels MUST be labeled in the file metadata using Multichannel Audio

Labeling as specified in SMPTE ST 377-4:2012.

• Stereo labels MUST match the method used to create the sound field: LtRt for matrixed

downmix, LoRo for simple downmix, LR for stereo mix.

• All audio tracks MUST conform (be synchronous) with video and have the same duration.

• Near field mixes are preferred over a Theatrical.

John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net

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Re: [Avid-L2] Opening /Copying User Settings

Keyboard settings can not be made into Site Settings (for obvious reasons). Could you imagine walking into a facility where someone had made their keyboard setting a site setting? There would be riots.

Seems like you got it sorted out, my method has always been

Create User Profile
Then, while in the Settings window, go to File > Open Settings File
Open my old user setting file, (that's when you get the little window with all of your old settings)
Drag and drop the tough to recreate ones (ie, keyboard) into the settings window and I always choose "add", never "replace".

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Re: [Avid-L2] Opening /Copying User Settings

Hey Luca,

Thanks...I tried that yesterday (and just now) but it doesn't seem like you can copy a Keyboard setting to the Site setting.
However.. I knowI tried this yesterday but opening the new user (elwoodPC) and then opening the original user that I wanted the keyboard from (elwood) worked ! It opened up the second user as a panel so I could drag/drop the keyboard.

Weird...I'd swear I tried that yesterday and it didn't work the way I expected, but your email made me try it again, So Thanks !

eli
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