Help! HDCam Dub + Dolby

Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:17 pm

I work for a transfer house and I recently made some clones of a Film on HDCam(HDcam to HDcam) that had Dolby encoding on channels 3+4. I used the audio off of SDI and saw levels on 3+4 when I made the dub (audibly just static).
My problem is that our client is saying that the dolby encoding on the clones is not decodable and the original master is. I do not have anything to QC the clones and they're coming back to be re-dubbed tommorow (6 hours of dubbing).
I have been told that you have to set the HDCam deck to use channels for data only and I have set that. I am hoping that is the only cause of the problem but I am not really sure.
If anyone has any knowledge of what I might be doing wrong it might save me 6 hours of dubbing (only to be redone again), and dealing with unhappy clients.
Thanks in advance!!! Very Happy

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 4:07 am

I am supposing this is dolby E? (8 channels of audio on 1 aes line) As far as I know, dolby E is specifically designed to go over an aes line, so it might not work embedded...
Just a thought..

Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 11:58 am

Yes its Dolby E, The place that the Master tape was made told me using sdi should work, but they didn't really sound too sure. Maybe it will have to be aes. Thanks for the reply.

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