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Can I use a mini HDMI to micro USB to view my kodak playsport from my android?
I have a Kodak Playsport zx5, it has a mini HDMI connection as well as a micro USB. Can I use either of these ports to connect to my phone a Droid Incredible 2, and view the camera through my phone ...
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Sustain Pedal problem
I am using a Roland XP80 keyboard and find that at times, the pedal makes no difference. At other times the notes sustain continually. I have an FS-300 pedal that was recommended for use on the Roland ...
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Vegas Pro: imported m2ts missing audio
I'm editing a clip for my friend's wedding, when I try to import a .m2ts file from my Blu-Ray disk, only the video has been added. seems Vegas doesn't recognize the audio format...
I'm sure the file ...
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Split audio into many files
I have an mp3 recording that spans many hours. It is just one big file. I would love to split it into dozens or hundreds of individual snippets.
I actually already some most of the time-stamps where ...
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What books and resources can help me better understand my DAW?
For some years now I have been occasionally recording music. The DAW I have is an older version of Cakewalk Sonar (8.5 LE I think). I can already record MIDI tracks from my keyboards, edit and/or ...
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Can I Use Long Manfrotto QR Plates on a short head?
I've been considering whether to buy the 701HDV or the 502AH.
I've pretty much settled on the 502AH for its superior drag quality, but one thing a lot of people do not consider is the type of Quick ...
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How can I create dubstep-style wobble bass lines in Audacity?
What is the most effective way to produce wobbling bass lines, such as that you might hear in the "dubstep" (a.k.a. techno-bass) genre?
My current idea is to generate a linear sine wave that goes ...
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How can I output sound for a video if I'm using Traktor Pro?
I'm DJ'ing at my friend's wedding and always work within Traktor Pro to mix songs but his bride wants to sings a song with the aid of lyrics onscreen. She's given me a video that plays the song while ...
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Preventing flicker when recording live presentations
Say someone's giving a presentation with the projector image next to them. What I see when recording this is the screen flickers, kind of like top-to-bottom scan refresh that's actually visible. What ...
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How to transfer records from cassettes to the computer?
I have a walkman with a lot of cassettes (TDK D-C60 cassette) - some of the records that I made back in 80's - can anyone, please, recommend a software for transferring all those records from ...
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Finding high quality samples for music production
I'm having a hard time finding great, high-quality samples. Although I'm primarily looking for electronic, hip-hop, or house music samples your answer does not have to be genre specific.
How does one ...
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Video editor with basic color correction for commodity hardware?
I have been using Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects on my main Core i7 machine for actual videos, but I would like to know which Non-linear video editor would work best for some of my slower ...
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Looking for an 80's VHS effect!
I'm looking for a way to turn an HD video clip into 80's style VHS low-quality.
Here is an example of the look I'm desperately looking for:
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How to manually change BPM of part of clip in Ableton
How do you take from point A to point B inside a warped clip, and change it's BPM from 120 to 140?
Reason is I need to sync a video track with a audio track, video has music with not a constant BPM. ...
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Reducing latency on MIDI-over-USB Keyboard
I have recently bought a low-end usb keyboard(Acorn Instruments Masterkey 49). I am trying to use it with Sibelius 6. After spending a lot of time in the settings of Sibelius, I have managed to get ...
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Desktop speakers for a MacbookPro? [closed]
I have a reasonably small desk with minimal space behind it, and I am in a reasonably small room. I don't crank music very loud (but once in a while I enjoy something high volume), and I am far more ...
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Why does my NI Komplete Audio 6 have very low input volume?
I have an Audio Technica AT4040 connected to a recently purchased Komplete Audio 6.
I used to use this same microphone with a Digi 003 and Pro Tools and it was always very sensitive... I could hear ...
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DVD playback jagged
One of my DVD plays jagged when objects moves fast in the picture, I want to know what is this effect called and hope someone could give a solution. I have VLC. It is like this:
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Setting New Interface Up in Protools10
I recently got the scarlett 2i4 as a first interface, I am having trouble however getting it fully set up in Protools10, I have no idea how to work the I/O settings and just generally do not know ...
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How should I compare headphones?
I'm finding difficulty in selecting one of these products and I thought you guys could help me better finding the best out of these four headphones .
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Simple way of clipping video files?
What is a simple way of extracting a video clip from, say, an .avi file? An example: I only want between 1:05 and 1:35 of this video, and I want to save the clip as its own file. I have been using ...
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Connecting Turntable to Mic input to bypass preamp?
Would it be possible to connect a turntable to a mic input to completely bypass the preamp?
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Problems with digital recording (is it the computer or the software?)
I am looking for good audio capture software that will record 24bit music with no problem. Last year I was using Audition CS5 and recording at 24/96, using PreSonus hardware, caused the software to ...
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How to change the current playing tone via MIDI
I'd like to be able to change the active tone of my digital piano while I'm playing it, using the MIDI interface.
I tried sending SysEx strings similar to the following but the piano kind of ignores ...
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How can I reproduce an XG voice faithfully in a Performance on Yamaha MU-100
Anybody an expert on the Yamaha MU 100? I bought a used one. I have a keyboard midi controller inputting into it, and it outputs directly to a speaker. I use it for live performance.
When I go to the ...
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Synthetic sentence completion
I'm producing a documentary film with several interviews in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Audition CS5.5. In several situations I had to cut before the sentence was completed. Is there any way to ...
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“Digitally Remastered” Vinyl albums
I have a vinyl record that says it has been digitally remastered - this would mean that there is no true analogue wave anymore. One reason I still have and buy vinyl albums is because they are ...
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How to reproduce any sound
This may be a silly question, but it is one I don't know and I haven't found an exact answer to it.
A speaker can reproduce virtually any sound through vibration sequences, using an electromagnet. ...
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What software do I need to edit commercials out of recorded sports games?
I have been using HD PVR to capture some of my football games to PC and now I want to edit out the commercials. So I'm wondering what is the software that will do all these needs:
Allow me to edit ...
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Setting up Mixer Help
I need some help setting up my mixer. It is a Radioshack 4 Channel Mixer with effects. I have a speaker set, and the main speaker (Right) has input and output jacks (3.5mm)
My monitor also has input ...
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How do I convert 5.1 footage to stereo in premiere pro cs 5.5?
Since my camera is recording at 5.1 format, every time I drag footage into a sequence, it automatically creates 5.1 tracks. I'd like to avoid it and convert all the 5.1 tracks to a stereo track. How ...
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Footage feels “faster” when exporting from After Effects
I'm editing a project with premiere, and using After Effects to edit some of the footage (color corrections, some masking etc').
All raw footage was captured with a Canon 550D, 1280*720 at 50fps.
My ...
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nVidia GTX660 GPU with iRay
I found nVidia GTX660 GPU, and it's a good offer for me because of the performance/price ratio. Does anybody know how is it's behavior with Autodesk 3D Studios Max 2013 with iray renderer?
My ...
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Determine whether resonance/standing waves are from speakers or room?
I have two massive resonances (more than 12db above the response curve elsewhere) with my bookshelf monitors placed on a desk in a large furnished, carpeted room. One is at about 110 Hz and another ...
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Old video tape effect in Premiere Pro
I am creating a video promo, and the customer wants the "crap old soviet" style.
We have shot the video on a Nikon D800 and it is being edited in Premiere Pro CS6, so the workflow is top-notch ...
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What Windows-based DAW can I use for sample arrangement?
I want to make music where I layer samples over one another. I don't just want these to be samples of notes--I have samples of drum breaks and guitar riffs that I'd like to sequence.
For example, ...
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Isolate Voice and Reduce Ambient Sounds
I am trying to record voice anywhere. That is why I need a way to isolate the voice and reduce ambient sounds such as cars or trains. Ideally I want to do this with an iPhone, which does not have a ...
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Does YouTube allow multiple soundtracks
Is it possible to upload one video on YouTube, and have multiple soundtracks for it? Much like one can choose the subtitles, can one make several language-specific voice-overs for the same, say, ...
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Is it good practice to have a film's supporters contact film festival program directors?
I admit, I'm not sure this Q&A site is right for this question, as my question does not deal with technical aspects of film production... But the site description says, "Q&A for engineers, ...
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How to record audio in Ableton?
How do i record audio from mic with Ableton Live?
Mic is connected to Line-In port of external audio card, card itself is recognized perfectly as i can hear VST's and such;
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Entire Track Velocity in Sony Vegas
I have created a video+audio clip in Sony Vegas. After the work was completed, I decided to increase velocity a little bit (final percentage ~95% original).
In the project, I have several audio and ...
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How to resolve missing WAV files inside Logic's EXS Samples?
I've been experiencing this problem with Logic Pro 9.1.8, downloaded from the Apple App Store. But Googling around suggests other people have similar issues with earlier Logics and with physical ...
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Premiere 6 - how to add black between clips in a sequence automatically
We have regular fulfilment jobs for clients which require us to insert a few seconds of black between each clip in a contiguous file. It's not a great deal of effort to do it once or twice but when ...
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How to reverse video in different software packages
One of the basic edits one can make to a video is reversing it such that it plays backwards.
The goal of this community wiki is to show beginning users how to reverse footage with different video ...
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Looking for a free dvd burning program which has basic video editing to make a menu?
I just shot some video in 720 using my kodak playsport zx5. I know HD videos don't fit on DVD and i'll have to compress / edit them. I don't want to buy any advanced programs right now since i'm just ...
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Audio editing benchmark software
A while ago I used some software on my laptop to test the hardware limitations that might create bottlenecks in audio production, I've started using my desktop machine which should have more than ...
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Preventing headphone static with USB to 3.5mm adapter
I recently got a new pair of IEMs (In-ear monitors), and while sound quality is really good, I am getting a constant hissing sound when I use them with my laptop. I know that the static is caused by ...
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What is a projector's “pixel frequency”?
I am looking at the specs of a BenQ projector and trying to understand it's output frequency.
On page 74 of the manual, there are specs for vertical, horizontal and "pixel" frequency. What does ...
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Batch video editing software that can trim without re-encoding
What application is there that can open a video, modify it, and save it?
(the software that I am using now, only allows the video to be used as a source, and then exported)
I have adobe premier, but ...
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what's a good basic app to edit stop motion video? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I align photos for stop motion?
Command Line Tool for Converting Image Sequence to Quicktime .mov Video
Want to do a project with my kids over the holidays and ...
