Sony XD Cam audio problem with the AVID

External Since: Nov 28, 2007 Posts: 32

As some of you might know ABC News is starting to use and except the
Sony PDW 510 XD Camera. You can set this camera to record the camera
mic onto channels 3 and or 4. A permalance cameraman who works for
ABC News all the time out of NYC set his camera to do just this.
According to this cameraman the editor at ABC said that when editing
using the AVID that channel 1 and 3 were mixed together and 2 and 4
were mixed together and that he could not separate them. He also said
that it was an AVID related problem and could not figure out how to
fix this so that he could access the individual channels. Does anyone
have any ideas?

Andy

External Since: Dec 04, 2007 Posts: 12

hi andy
I sent your post to another abc perma-lancer
here is his reply:

"In the menu there are audio set up options that dictate the
assignment of the various channels. The default may be the “mixed”
audio mode, but I know for sure you have options of assignments. I
believe I have mine on “stereo” thus giving me separate tracks on
channels 1 & 2 and then I assign the camera mic to 3 & 4! "

al mcguire