Converting 12 bit to 16 bit audio?

[rocketguy2]

This may actually be better placed in the Premiere section of the forum but thought I'd try here first; I shot the first two scenes for our film with my Sony TRV-39 camcorder. I discovered (all too late!) that the default audio setting for the TRV is 12 bit 32K, giving the dialogue that "bottom of the toilet bowl" quality as opposed to the music and sound effects. I can't reshoot the scenes since we no longer have access to the interior location. Is it possible to capture the raw footage in PPro 1.5 at 16 bit, 48K (like my newer DVX footage) in order to increase the quality of the original dialogue tracks? I used the Azden SGM-1X exclusively for recording audio. I realize this is not the best way to go about things, I just hate to bag all the work we did on location with the Sony. Yeah, I screwed up! :undecided

Thanks,

Gary

 

[thisiswells]

The world's first miniDV camcorder, the Sony VX-1000 ONLY had 12bit audio. So, while it wasn't ideal, it was certainly "good enough" for professional use back then. Resampling to 16bit will not improve the sound. You can't add something that wasn't there to begin with. The low fidelity you're hearing probably has more to do with the microphone used and the recording environment/ambient noise rather sample rate. That said, 16bit would have been a better choice. Good luck.

 

[discs of tron]

yeah what he said. you can't polish a turd, and you can't make something out of nothing. you can export the wav's, open them in audacity (free audio app,) and save then as 16 bit, 48 khz. (in fact you can probably just export at 16/48 from ppro.) but the information that wasn't recorded because of word length and sampling rate will not appear. that stuff was never recorded. you definitely want to make sure that your premiere project is set up for 16/48 though. if it is, i believe it will just convert evrything for when you print to tape.