Interesting what you say about the browser - what do you recommend? I'm getting pretty constant glitches in these forums (eg back button not working) with Safari 4.03 - would I be better off with Firefox? Obviously I can just try it and see - but given that things are beta and will be changing what's going to be more solid long term?

Not sure if this might have been covered in some of the TNT tutorials - well not stompboxes specifically as I think they came later, but the core understanding that would allow me to do this. I can easily use MIDI learn to set things up temporarily, but this doesn't seem to "stick" - change something and it loses the assignment. I'm not clear on what the limitations are and what's even possible when you know what you're doing! I have an Edirol PCR300. Is there a tutorial in the TNT series I need to watch? I have pretty much everything else but maybe I missed this being covered? Either way perhaps someone could point me at the right tutorial or help me out with some pointers if it's not covered. I think that makes sense? Learning about Midi controllers and head colds don't really go well together! cheers Julian

OK well I guess it's good to confirm that there isn't one that I've missed/skipped! Easily done given how many hours of MacProVideo tutorials I now have!! In the meantime maybe someone can tell me if something is theoretically possible? The idea is to assign controls (probably 4 rotary knobs and an on off button) to a stompbox and then press another pair of buttons and have the controllers control the next/previous stompbox on the pedalboard. One problem I foresee is that different stompboxes have different numbers of knobs - I'll be exploring further, but I'd appreciate it if someone knows this isn't possible in Logic and can save me wasting time. Also, presumably this CAN be done in Mainstage? Again I need to explore more, but getting this working in Logic (9) is my priority. cheers

would really like some help on this . . . bump!

I've asked this question on various forums and got no responses so I really hope you guys can help! I have a friend who's paid a video company to record a couple of professional seminars - these recordings resulted in one set of 10 DVDs and another of 8 DVDs. The audio on all of them is truly horrible! There's frequent massive speaker distorting feedback, the volume levels are wildly erratic and none of it does any justice to the content, which is excellent. Basically my friend got ripped off and was quoted an enormous figure to put things right. Knowing I'm into recording and mixing music he asked what could be done . . . I have no problem with editing the audio - it'll be laborious but not technically difficult to make a big improvement. But first I need to get at the audio on these dvd's, so I can edit and re mix it and then get it back onto dvd for him. It's obviously going to be a huge project and while I'm pretty experienced with Logic Pro I've never worked with video. So please can someone give me some pointers? I've ripped the dvd's to Video_TS folders (using iSkysoft DVD Copy Pro) and now need to convert them again in order to work with the audio. What app do I use to convert and into what format? Do I use Soundtrack Pro 3 rather than Logic? I've owned Soundtrack as part of Logic Studio for ages but never had reason to open it til now. I also own DVDRemaster Pro which will hopefully help me get things into the right format to work with? Feel like I'm stumbling around in the dark here! Any help appreciated!

Hi Ski, Huge thanks for such a detailed and thoughtful reply. I doubt the original video and audio are available, though I will check. These seminars were run in 2000 and are a highly specialised interest, selling to interested professionals within the field. The content is so good this tiny "audience" has been extremely forgiving to date. The seminars are a combination of lecture and demonstration of technique split roughly 50-50, however the audio is definitely the more critical element. Having watched these on my iPhone I can attest that the video quality suffering a bit want seriously impact on appreciating the content. The audio is the problem. If I do nothing more adventurous than simply silence the sections of massive feedback it will be an enormous improvement, but I think with some careful compression to even out the levels it should be possible to make it an easier listen without my spending a colossal amount of time on it. I'll check out the izotope plugins - I believe I own Bias Soundsoap (?) but haven't used it for a long time, so that might help too. cheers and thanks again Julian

Hi Ski, DVDRemaster offers a huge number of possible options re compression type - it's defaulting to H.264 - does that sound about right in theory? If not please suggest an ideal and I'll see what it can deliver. Presumably I should also set the compressor quality to "best" rather than its default "High" and encoding to "best quality (multi-pass) rather than faster encode (single pass)? As always trying to strike a balance between this taking an age and doing the best job I can. Please bare in mind that having ripped these to my iPhone I find them perfectly watchable - the video is not critical. thanks again!

The frame rate on the H.264 Quicktime movie is 25.00 - so posting back as requested? Presumably this is a problem? thanks Julian

yes - I'm in the UK and the DVD's would have been recorded and printed in Australia . . . ? cheers Julian

Ski - you have no idea how deeply I appreciate your taking the time to go through this with me! If you could possibly suggest a couple of other "top flyer" codecs to try? There are SO many options in the pop up menu I haven't a clue where to start experimenting. One further question - is there any major benefit to wrapping my head around Soundtrack Pro vs staying with Logic where I'm very familiar? cheers Julian