SMPTE
Monika Mayer-Kielmann
my audio programs slave to...I have successfully synched cool edit pro,
cake walk 8.0, sound forge 4.5 and acid...I'm having difficulty finding
a software for digital video that will also synch to video, but if I
find it I think I'll have a very affordable yet reliable system....
- Monika
Dirk Kolberg
Monika Mayer-Kielmann schrieb in Nachricht <36D1CC7B...@sfsu.edu>...
Hi Monika,
this is a very interesting theme for me. I work with Emagic Logic Audio
Platinum on a WIN95-System and use a MOTU Time Piece for MIDI and
SMPTE-Slaving. My other PC is a DUAL PII with NT4 Premiere 5.1 and
Videocapturecards (DC50 and DV300). I would love to know how it is possible
to synch the two machines. I惴 dreaming about perfect synch of both PCs by
just by pressing play, stop, forward,... in the timeline and monitorwindow
of premiere. Do you have a idee how to manage that ?
Finaly do you speak german ? Your Name seems to be german. My written
english isn愒 that good.
Dirk
Monika Mayer-Kielmann
you can send your synch signal to a midi port into the second machine...so if
you have your time piece going into one computer you treat your second computer
as another midi device? How do you like the time piece, btw? Does it use the
parallel port? The salesperson talked me out
of buying a faster midi interface with smpte because he said they transmitted
more info than the port is actually capable of so I got a small one...I'd
really like to try one of the usb devices that will be available
soon...Anyways, let me know if it works! :)
- Monika
p.s. my dad's german but my german's not that great...
Dirk Kolberg
>guess you can send your synch signal to a midi port into the second
>machine...so if you have your time piece going into one computer you treat
>your second computer as another midi device?
Hi Monika,
I think my system isn´t bad, it is growing. I own 50% of my money with
AV-work, so it must be okay.
Midiconnection: You are right, it isn´t a problem to connect two PCs with
midi. The problem is the videosoftware and the midi timing. In my opinion
there are two ways to send timesignals from the videoPC to the audioPC.
1.) Somewhere in the world is someone who devolped a premiere plugin that
gives me a advice to send the timeline-time and the controll comands per
midi out of my soundcard or another mididevice. Than it woud be no problem
to use the audioPC as a slave of the videoPC (like it is posssible with
tapemachines).
2.) There are a lot of control-plugins for premiere on the market, these
plugins control professionel taperecorders via RS422/RS233 during capture
and print to tape. They use SMPTE (LTC) - timecodes and have different
protocols for different machines. Since Premiere 5.0 it must be possible to
send permanent timecode during action in the timeline (it is possible to
write realtime-plugins). But where is a company that increased there plugin
in this point??? Than it would be possible to send SMPTE to the Timepiece
and control the audioPC in perfect synch (much better than midi).
>How do you like the time
>piece, btw? Does it use the parallel port? The salesperson talked me out
>of buying a faster midi interface with smpte because he said they
>transmitted more info than the port is actually capable of so I got a
>small one...I'd really like to try one of the usb devices that will be
>available soon...Anyways, let me know if it works! :)
The usb will be a good choice, MOTU Timepiece is pretty good because it
converts different formats, even if it stands alone (without PC). If I had
to buy one I woud choose Unitor from Emagic, it´s "cheap" (in Germany)
better than Timepiece and perfect with logic audio.
The most important point is: How many midiports do you need, do you need
live setups, do you need SMPTE,LTC,VITC,MTC...?
Dirk