Audio expert question please!

[slakka]

Dear Newsgroups,
I gotta one of a kind interview on mini dv. When played back it both
looks and sounds terrific!!
Problem occurs when editing interview onto dvd. Audio becomes very
muddy/unusable

I could really use any suggestions on how I may cure this please??



Thanks in advance!!



pittwindmill@see-below-no-spam
hotmail.com

[robinlos]

On Sep 27, 4:29*pm, slakka > wrote:
> Dear Newsgroups,
> I gotta one of a kind interview on mini dv. When played back it both
> looks and sounds terrific!!
> Problem occurs when editing interview onto dvd. Audio becomes very
> muddy/unusable
>
> *I could really use any suggestions on how I may cure this please??
>
> *Thanks in advance!!
>
> pittwindmill@see-below-no-spam
> hotmail.com

Maybe you can record to another machine, and edit from there. First
thing with something irreplaceable is to make a copy. Believe it or
not reducing the info to NTSC and, editing on S-VHS with flying erase
head is better than nothing. Worse case, you can go to a professional
and rent an editing suite. But before you do anything, make a copy and
secure it. Good luck.

[Eeyore]

robinlos wrote:

> slakka > wrote:
> > Dear Newsgroups,
> > I gotta one of a kind interview on mini dv. When played back it both
> > looks and sounds terrific!!
> > Problem occurs when editing interview onto dvd. Audio becomes very
> > muddy/unusable
> >
> > I could really use any suggestions on how I may cure this please??
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!
> >
> > pittwindmill@see-below-no-spam
> > hotmail.com
>
> Maybe you can record to another machine, and edit from there. First
> thing with something irreplaceable is to make a copy. Believe it or
> not reducing the info to NTSC and, editing on S-VHS with flying erase
> head is better than nothing. Worse case, you can go to a professional
> and rent an editing suite. But before you do anything, make a copy and
> secure it. Good luck.

I'd transfer straight to non-linear PC/Mac editing. And back those files
up properly. You wouldn't believe the 'fun' I've had mending broken
archives.

Graham

[snags]

"slakka" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Newsgroups,
> I gotta one of a kind interview on mini dv. When played back it both
> looks and sounds terrific!!
> Problem occurs when editing interview onto dvd. Audio becomes very
> muddy/unusable
>
> I could really use any suggestions on how I may cure this please??
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
>
>
> pittwindmill@see-below-no-spam
> hotmail.com
>
>
I bet you have a resampling problem, mini dv records at 48k and DVDs I think
are 44.1, I think you need to take that audio stream into a program like
soundforge and resample it.

[Mr.T]

"snags" > wrote in message
...
> > I gotta one of a kind interview on mini dv. When played back it both
> > looks and sounds terrific!!
> > Problem occurs when editing interview onto dvd. Audio becomes very
> > muddy/unusable

> I bet you have a resampling problem, mini dv records at 48k and DVDs I
think
> are 44.1,

No, the standard DVD sampling rate is 48kHz, CD's use 44.1.

> I think you need to take that audio stream into a program like
> soundforge and resample it.

Vegas (and many others) will resample on the fly anyway, but if that was his
problem, I doubt he would describe the result as "muddy", the pitch would be
clearly wrong instead.

MrT.