P2 audio Issue HELP!!!!!!

Jason Scheuer wrote on 6/29/2009, 1:54 PM
Ok we are using Vegas Pro 8 for new bradcasting editing and shoot on P2 cards. We have Raylight plug in installed on our machines.
We get these occational audio pops or hits that are really nasty and cuase a lot of problems. They are not really there and never seem to make it in the finished render. They do at times throw off the audio sync in the trimmer window or cut off the audio after the hit.

Has anyone else had this sort of issue?
and most importantly been able to fix it?

any help would be greatly appriciated
thanks
Jason WRTV indianapolis

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pwppch wrote on 6/29/2009, 9:08 PM
Jason,

Please fill out your system specs in your user profile.

What is a P2 card?

What audio hardware are you using?

Are you using Mapper, Wave Classic, or ASIO drivers?

Peter


newhope wrote on 6/29/2009, 9:34 PM
Peter

A P2 card is a Panasonic HD solid state storage card, similar to the SxS cards that Sony XDCAM cameras are using, but slightly older technology. Or were you being facetious?

So I'm guessing that the footage is shot on a Panasonic P2 HD camera.

Beyond that I'm no help
Geoff_Wood wrote on 6/29/2009, 11:59 PM
I thought he might be running a Pentiium 2 which was running out of steam ....

geoff
Jason Scheuer wrote on 6/30/2009, 11:31 AM
Yes panasonic P2 non HD at the moment.
as far as specs
I really am not great on the computer specific stuff but i will try and get a run down from our IT guys

Dell Latitude E6500 Intel Core 2 duo with Windows XP 150GB hard drive.
Does this help any?
musicvid10 wrote on 6/30/2009, 12:22 PM
Actually, it might.
150GB is not a lot of space for NLE. The temp files themselves take up a huge amount of space and your machine may be thrashing around trying to find enough page file reserve.

Try freeing up as much space as possible by doing a disk cleanup, deleting old video and applications, and add more storage if necessary (I personally don't like USB external drives, firewire is more reliable for me).

Most of us have some big (500GB to 1TB) internal drives that are devoted just to video editing.

Hope this helps, don't use P2 but a pro friend who does hasn't mentioned any problems.
cchoy wrote on 9/12/2009, 7:54 AM
I've experienced the same problem as you OFTEN. I suspect it has something to do with the Raylight plugin. Those loud POPS freak the hell out of the client and threaten to blow the speakers. I've found in general (even though I purchased raylight ULTRA) that the support for panasonic .MXF files is very very sketchy.

On a separate but related Panasonic MXF editing issue--

I'm currently editing picture with Raylight on a laptop. When I save the session and try to open it on a desktop, Vegas can't figure out how to re-link the files properly and i have to link one by one. For a project with 20,000 files, that's just too much. But you can't save media in either because you need that p2 file structure... not really sure what to do?