HELP WITH CAPTURE AND EDIT OF DV AUDIO

[Steve Gross]

Hi, We have filmed a 1.5minute short using a 3CCD Panasonic DV100 and our audio equipment included, a beach box and tie clip mike. The video information is captured using an Osprey 100 Card. When we go to edit on Adobe Premiere on a PC and create an avi file, the sound comes out terribly although the visual is tip top. I am not sure if this is because the microphone was at too high a volume or if the capture mechanism in Adobe Premiere and the camera are incompatible.

Please come back to me ASAP and I will be eternally grateful

Steve Gross

[nickolas]

What kind of capture card you got ? Is it a DV card with firewire links? If it is, then the problem shouldn't be during the capture but during recording. What kind of sound pb do you encounter ? Is it a buzz, is it saturation ? I know that many mics are uncompatible with standard DV corders for impendance issues

[Steve Gross]

The card is an Osprey 100 card and the problem seems to be with saturation.

[nickolas]

Is the Osprey 100 a firewire card?
Didn't you check the sound while recording it?
If it's a saturation pb, the only thing to do is to go under some pro software such as Soundforge and apply filters such as smoothing

[Steve Gross]

Nick

the capture is a firewire capture and when we played around with the sound on an mpeg file it worked but it didn't when we moved back to avi. Any ideas.

Steve

[nickolas]

Did you check that the Audio configuration in the project setting is 48 kHz and 16 bits?
And you capture directly with Premiere or with a soft packaged with your card?

[Steve Gross]

is there a setting that must be checked on the DV recorder itself prior to capture. Also why would the fact that it is being compressed as an MPEG rather than an avi make such a difference to sound quality?