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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Fwd: Re: New Music Format -- MULTI-TRACK |
| Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2003 15:42:58 -0400 |
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Here's Dee Long's (ex-Klaatu) response on the Multi-track digital mixing
format:
> Personally, I think it would have a very limited market.
> I know the Bowie thing wasn't that popular, I saw it on TV and you
>could
>balance some things and not others, crap EQ and FX.
> I think you'd get zillions of terrible sounding mixes:-\
>
> There's also the question of data, I'm just now backing up the mix of
>"The Meaning of Life" I did for the video and it's going to take 8 CDs. 24
>bit files get really big, really fast. A lot of engineers are using 96k
>sample rate or even higher. The only way it would be practical is if you
>had
>sub-mixes of the various elements in 16 bit 44.1k, and the software would
>need to be pretty high end, at least something like "Cool Edit". Still
>pretty expensive for casual use.
>
> The thing I'd like to see is 5.1 surround mixes, with HDTV video on
>DVD.
>Even that is stretching the technology at this point, in fact there's no
>spec for HDTV on DVD yet because you'd only get about 15 minutes of video
>on
>a DVD.
Jaimie Vernon,
President,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
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