RE: Live Mike Tips / Tricks

["Hollis, Mark (NBC Universal)" <Mark.Hollis(at)nbcuni.com>]

Whenever we do live stuff here is what we do:

 

First, the entire plant uses "embedded" audio. Obviously that is a difference.

 

You want to click on "Live" and change your TC source to LTC from External XLR and have that hooked up to your "house clock" (or set a machine up to temporarily generate time-of-day timecode and deliver it to the XLR input on the back of your Nitris)

 

We tend to take video with our audio scratch tracks (and real tracks) just to make sure.

 

We title our tape something unique, like "Recording booth 01-13-2006" and, since we use time-of-day timecode, we're unlikely to accidentally have reel name and media overcopying issues. The target is wherever you want your stuff to go -- choosable for all media or incident-by-incident. We are very careful to name our clips as well.

 

We also tend to open up the microphone icon and look to see that we have sound coming in.

 

If there is a problem with this setup, that is a general indicator that it is time to reset our BOB. We'll generally get a red telltale that suggests that on the Nitris.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of Dsderanged(at)aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:23 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Live Mike Tips / Tricks

I really looked like an idiot today while trying to record a scratch track in session in suite.  It

used to be so simple before on Betsy.

 

I set the capture to Live, set the deck to Micro phone, Analog input, Mono mix etc, etc.

and gave a dummy tape name like Live Mike 111 and name Scrach 01.

 

Fed DS with analog input from mixer in suite.  Hit capture. For whatever reason, could not get audio to work. Also, if I tried a few tests, it would start at the same time code.

 

Finally just ran mixer output and recorded to worktape in deck and digitized from tape.

 

OK, I actually did look in the manual, but no joy.

 

What am I doing wrong?  I seen to recall a similar thread awhile back. 

 

Thanks...Rick at naked eye