DV Rack Audio Hits...?

[srfjm]

Has anyone else experienced intermittent audio hits when recording with DV Rack? We were doing a green screen shoot today, and I was periodically getting audio hits that registered as peaks on the audio timeline while recording. When I listened to the clips back in DV Rack, I heard them and reshot the scenes. I attributed it to wireless hits... BUT when I imported the clips to Premiere Pro later on, the audio hits weren't there... what in the world?

[THoff]

DV Rack doesn't modify the data stream from the camera in any way, it just writes it to disk. If it reported audio pops, they must have been there.

[srfjm]

yeah I agree, but I don't hear them in post... so I guess playback on DV Rack is much more sensitive.

[Christopher Barry]

Audio pops (live monitoring) may possibly occur during recording as the priority is likely ensure recording to disk without dropped frames/audio, etc, and live video/audio playback would come second (pops during monitoring?). My guess.

[srfjm]

makes sense, but I was live monitoring off the camera, then played the clips back off DV Rack and heard them then. I dunno... all's well that ends well I guess :)

[treefilm]

Just was going to post the same question today. Had the same issue in playback on DV Rack so I am hoping, based on this thread, it is a function of playing back 1080 in DV Rack, not the actual recording. Will check with an NLE later this week...

[srfjm]

I'm wondering if there's an audio playback feature in dv rack that might cause the peaks to give you an audible 'hit' on playback... as a help somehow. I'll check the options menu later on...

[THoff]

I'm not aware of anything like that, maybe it is decoding the peak incorrectly and inadvertently causing the pop -- or maybe the audio driver or speaker on that system just doesn't handle it.

The Recorder window will show a red mark where the audio peaked, so it should be easy to spot.