ChrisOhio42 Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Hello everyone. I am a broadcaster and I recently bought a Sony MZ-RH10 to use to interview coaches and players. It has a group setting which enables me to put several tracks in one group, which to me seems useless but anyways I've been having major recording problems with it. What the MD does is divide my interviews into about 100 6 second short clips, which are not fun to edit together. It seems to divide the tracks anytime there is a pause in speech. I'm just wondering how or what settings I should change to avoid this problem. Any help would be great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Hello everyone. I am a broadcaster and I recently bought a Sony MZ-RH10 to use to interview coaches and players. It has a group setting which enables me to put several tracks in one group, which to me seems useless but anyways I've been having major recording problems with it. What the MD does is divide my interviews into about 100 6 second short clips, which are not fun to edit together. It seems to divide the tracks anytime there is a pause in speech. I'm just wondering how or what settings I should change to avoid this problem. Any help would be great!←Welcome to the forum You can't disable that "feature". It is annoying as hell, however when you upload the tracks with Sonic Stage you can quickly combine them. After uploading all tracks, click on the "My Library" button at the top, select the tracks you want to combine and click on Edit->Combine Tracks. Depending on how large the tracks are, or if there are more than 100, you may want to combine them in groups of 40 or 50 just to play it safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisOhio42 Posted August 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Thanks for the feedback, I'll let me producers know that. Can you select specific tracks that you want to combine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Low Volta Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 when using mic in instead of line in the enormous amounts of trackmarks shouldn't happen if you set autotrackmark to say 10 min... mic in should be very good for interviews btwwhen using line in there is nothing you can do but use this way of uploading for good results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
streaml1ne Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Thanks for the feedback, I'll let me producers know that. Can you select specific tracks that you want to combine?←Yes, you can. When you upload tracks in Sonic Stage they will retain the order they were recorded on the minidisc. If you wanted to combine tracks 1 and 5 for whatever reason simply select the 1st and 5th track in your library (after uploading of course) and click Edit->Combine. If you use Sonic Stage 3.2 you can upload files over and over again so if you happen to screw up it's not a complete loss. The link Volta posted is good. The best advice is to make some non-critical recordings and play around with the system. This way you won't get stuck when it counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 This has been a problem for the last couple of years.Come on Sony at least make it an option to turn it on and off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 ChrisOhio42, welcome to the forums. Mind telling us a little more about who you're affiliated with and their background with Minidisc? It's always interesting to hear how MD is used professionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin J Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 It seems to divide the tracks anytime there is a pause in speech.I just did an experiment with my RH910 to see if I could duplicate your problem. I recorded 20 seconds or so of my voice, then stopped talking and just let the 910 record dead silence. It did not add a track mark. I tried this several times and it never added a track mark during a pause in speech.I've had it recorder add trk marks during silent portions using line in, but never with mic in.~ peace, Kevin J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisOhio42 Posted August 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Thanks again for everyone's help. We just don't know what the hell we're doing with this thing. I bought the minidisc in July thinking it was going to make our lives easy, boy was I wrong! As far as my background, I deal mainly in sports out of Bowling Green, Ohio. I use the disc to interview all of the coaches for the school as well as the players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted August 18, 2005 Report Share Posted August 18, 2005 Interesting. Well, we're here for you if you need any further help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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