This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Direct multichannel QT export help please

Friday, March 4, 2016

Re: [Avid-L2] Direct multichannel QT export help please

This workaround made me picture Clevon Little staring at his Media
Composer saying, "You'd do it for Randolph Scott.". Now cleaning up the
tea spray. Thanks Steve. --J.B.

Steve Hullfish Steve@veralith.com [Avid-L2] wrote:
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> The same thing happened to me and because I have AMA material I didn't
> THINK I could export Same as Source, however if you just try it - with
> direct audio out - you get an error dialog that says you can't do Same
> as Source, but if you want to you can export as whatever you have set
> up in your Media settings. So I changed my media settings to ProRes
> and it actually export ProRes of an AMA sequence with Direct out.
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> Steve
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>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 7:00 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net
>> <mailto:bigfish@pacbell.net> [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
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>> If tracks one and two are mono with the same material then I would
>> suggest adding a -6db level drop to compensate for the summing of the
>> two mono tracks, assuming they both have the same material on them.
>> I always do this when creating mono mixdowns of stereo tracks like
>> music summing to a mono track. Also I learned the hard way you have
>> to make an additional audio mixdown with the level dropped otherwise
>> the level adjustment won't happen on a file export. For tape output
>> fine but files don't reflect the audio mixer levels unless they are
>> baked into a new audio mixdown.
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>> ---Inavid-l2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:avid-l2@yahoogroups.com>,
>> <DennyD1@...> wrote :
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>> On Mar 3, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
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>> >I have stereo 5 and 6 of music in my sequence that need to be
>> mixed to a single stereo output of the QT file. When I try to
>> export QT, I do not get the Direct Out option. Only mono or
>> stereo or one of the surrounds.
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>> I forgot:
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>> You said you have stereo tracks 5 & 6. In that case, do a 'Dual
>> Mono' mixdown of 5 & 6 and put the resulting two tracks on tracks
>> 2 & 3. Delete any other tracks. Make your QT export, S-A-S,
>> Direct Output.
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>> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
>> NBC Today Show, New York
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