Posted by Videofx66 Here's what I did.... I added a 1 minute animation on my video track in premiere, and ripped an audio track from my CD, converted it to 48Khz. The audio peak level of the resulting WAV is at -3 dB, and it sounds fine. I then export it to a MiniDV. Now I wanted to copy this to a VHS, so I hooked a MiniDV cam to my VCR which has VU meters. On playing back the MiniDV, the picture quality is EXCELLENT, however the audio was VERY hot and distorted, as seen by my VCR's VU meters, they were HOT. So now I cannot copy my DV footage to VHS because of this ! Yet when I verify my initial WAV file and even when re-importing the WAV file to my PC and into a wav recording program, the levels are at -3dB just like I set them initially, so why the hell is the DVCam send an overdriven signal to my VCR despite it being digitally recorded at bloody -3dB! Can anybody give me insight ? Do I have to keep my a consistent maximum peak of -10dB and adjust ALL my audio waveforms on my timeline accordingly ? I do not own the MiniDV deck (it's rented) so I cannot run as much tests as I want to since my time is limited too Question #2, let's say I take this SAME timeline with video and audio at peak -3dB and I convert it to DVD MPEG-2, author it and burn it to DVD, will it also be clipped and distorted, or does the same -12dB rule apply ? Thanks for all your response
on 2/20/2004, 10:10 pm
24.200.107.204
I'm only starting to move towards native DV editing and analog conversion straight to Digital 8 or MiniDV. I'm encountering some audio distortion problems. 
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