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offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 07:51 [#01099782]
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ok so the reporters and field recorders at my radio station
are going to be recording on minidisc. once the get back to
the production studio, what is the best method for editing
the audio down?

on my minidisc i just edit on the actual piece of hardware
and its never too involved really.

is there a periphial for PC that will load up a minidisc
into a software editor?

should the audio just be dumped in raw format through a
digital i/o sound card and loaded into cool edit or
something similar?

is there a piece of stand alone hardware that would function
as a digital editing workstation for a MD?

just looking for your experiences..


 

offline ChildrenTalking from United States on 2004-03-05 07:54 [#01099783]
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my eyes are playing tricks on me. i thought ur topic was
titled eating minidiscs


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2004-03-05 07:55 [#01099785]
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im afraid to admit, i thought the same


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-03-05 08:19 [#01099805]
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I didn't understand a word of the technical piece. I've
worked for a radio-station, and I used MD as a recorder. I
used a sound-editing program called Dalet where I transfered
sound and Edited from the MD.


 

offline DJ Xammax from not America on 2004-03-05 08:23 [#01099807]
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Shit. Same here.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 08:40 [#01099820]
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by what means did you transfer the sound?


 

offline mortsto-x from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-03-05 08:46 [#01099830]
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Connected a MD to the computer and played the interview or
whatever, and at the same time I just recorded with the
record-function on Dalet. Have you experiences with Dalet?


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-03-05 08:49 [#01099834]
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If the only means of accessing minidisc is via the portable
devices you have no option other than either a digital
transfer of audio or analogue, both in real time. NetMD
only allows data to be transfered to the mindisc device and
not from it.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 09:28 [#01099868]
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oh jesus, so you have to record onto the pc in real time? no
way to just move the data over?

hmm sounds like a pain in the ass. thanks for the info. i
think ill look at mixers/audio workstations that support
editing on-board.


 

offline beta from San Antonio (United States) on 2004-03-05 09:46 [#01099903]
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well, if you have adobe premier, you can capture audio (if
the computer you are using is configured to sych. with the
md-deck). my communication department (radio station) has
the configuration. what i would recommend is using sound
forgery's vegas to capture the audio. it's much better at
editing audio. surely your station's editing suite has
these programs.


 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2004-03-05 10:09 [#01099976]
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use the light pipe on the MD to dump into the computer. edit
from there.

you dont have to sit through the entire MD to record, just
jump to the spots you want to edit and go from there. it is
the cheapest, fastest way to do it.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 10:34 [#01100027]
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ok, this makes more sense. I was beginning to think the only
way to get the audio onto the pc would be to record it as if
it were audio off of a lins source, in real-time.

Thanks for all the input guys.

Portland, I gotta talk to you bud, check your email.


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-03-05 10:38 [#01100031]
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I think that is still what is being said. I assume Portland
just meant only copy off the sections of the audio you need
to edit rather than the whole thing though.


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 10:44 [#01100044]
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aw for fucks sake..

:(

MDs suck my ass.. (not really, but jesus christ..)


 

offline ecnadniarb on 2004-03-05 10:50 [#01100049]
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Sony are meant to be looking at introducing two way USB
digital transfer (probably with the release of Hi-MD)...but
I agree that it is a bit shit as it stands at the moment.


 

offline avart from nomo' on 2004-03-05 11:01 [#01100055]
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yeah, you are right about the transfer, HiMD will solve this
for some types of recordings (PC only though :/ ) But
there is actually a md unit for professional broadcast use
who will allow digital transfer to a pc/mac through usb ,
but it costs a lot...

http://www.hhb.co.uk/hhb/uk/hhbproducts/portadisc/index.asp


 

offline Portland from San Diego (United States) on 2004-03-05 11:34 [#01100100]
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i got the email. will reply shortly.

:)


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-03-05 11:35 [#01100102]
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me too


 

offline pomme de terre from obscure body in the SK System on 2004-03-05 11:59 [#01100119]
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Just so you guys know, the topic looks like it says "eating
minidscs" to me too.. and I wrote it!


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2004-03-05 12:03 [#01100127]
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wow, i thought it was about eating minidiscs too..... thats
weird.....


 


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