A guestion about High Definition. . .

Amidei

Amidei

friend of god
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#1
Help! Someone tell me all is not lost!

We shot a short swordfighting movie on HD in May. It looks freaking awesome. So we had to send the HD tapes away and have them dropped into VHS and BETA so that we could proceed with the editing. As we are overlooking the footage on the VHS, the sound is awful.

We had a separate system, a boom mike, and both the director and a sound guy on headphones during the shoot, and they both said the sound was pristine when recorded.

We are going to be editing on an AVID system, and should, sometime this week, get a chance to listen to the BETA versions, with our fingers crossed.

Is it possible that the sound is actually OK, and just got messed up when they dropped it into VHS? I mean, what I have seen so far is unusable as far as following story goes. With no sound, we have the possibility of a short fighting music video.

Please forgive my ignorance, but I am but a novice at this. However, as one of the producers of this film, this news has caused my stomach to twist into knots. It was a 8 day shoot, with 3 allnighters, and a cast of about 50 all told, and way too much money spent.

Someone tell me all is not lost.
 
Ute Giddeon

Ute Giddeon

cleaner
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#2
All is not lost.

Seriously though, I'm not sure anyone can actually give you an answer to your question. You seem to already know as much as anyone here could tell you: Perhaps the issue is a bad VHS dub, and you'll have to go back to the source footage for the audio. If not, you'll have to loop the dialogue.

Can you check out the original HD tapes and check their audio?

Are you doing a low-res edit on the Avid and then using the EDL to master from the original HD? If so, is the VHS audio good enough that you can use it to edit, and it will fix itslef when you master from the HD source? How are you doing the audio? Are you just mixing it on the Avid, or finishing it elsewhere, or what?
 
Phil

Phil

matzo farfel addict
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#3
"is it possible something got messed up in the dubbing process?"

... always. :)

check the Betas. if they're no good, check the HD originals. if the HD seems no good, check the setting on the HD deck and see that you're playing the tapes properly.

(and, of course, you shouldn't have to pay for the redubbing if the dub house messed up the first time around. that happens ALL the time.)

good luck. sounds like a fun movie.
 
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