Posted by puneet on 3/4/2004, 11:16 pm, in reply to "I need your help please - Recording correct audio levels on MiniDV!" --Previous Message--
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: 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.
: 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
:
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