dialog editing interface

[cubivore]

only on GS do i come looking for a mouse replacement and get recommendations for mouth watering $10000 crazy controllers!

danijel, i've seen these sorts of keyboard trays that extend further than this example with higher reach so you could stand while working.

Ergonomic Keyboard Tray / Articulating Keyboard Tray from Humanscale - keyboard tray,ergonomic keyboard tray,keyboard platform,articulating keyboard tray

[kk@jamsync.com]

I use the Kensington Expert Mouse Pro trackball, but I also have a track pad I will plug in if I notice my hand is bothering me. It's especially good for circular pans (when I need those, which is exceedingly rare...).

[quadraphonics]

Originally Posted by danijel

Does anyone know of a reference design for such a table? I'd like to be able to switch between standing and sitting, but all the solutions that come to my mind would require 5 minutes to adjust the height...... 30 seconds would be more appropriate.

You could look at BioMorph stuff.
Biomorph :: Ergonomic Desk and Ergonomic Furniture, Ergonomic Desks, PACS Radiology Furniture and Computer Desk
They are work stations that are not specifically tailored to audio, but do have the ability to adjust between sitting and standing.

Randall

[Geert van den Berg]

I don't think BioMorph has European distributors?

I have looked at those desks on their website before, looked great, I'd want one!

[smurfyou]

I'd emphasize total ergonomics over specific products. Desk height, chair height and position, and working plane are very important. And there is not one answer, you need to tailor to your own needs. Search around the internet, there are plenty of resources to help you set up your work area. Of course if you're freelance there is only so much adjusting you can do....I hate walking into a room that has a cheap pre-fab desk with a console thrown on top thats too high, and a tiny drawer for keyboard and mouse thats too low. Even worse when its a crappy Apple chiclet keyboard and puck mouse. I always carry a mouse or trackball with me just in case.

Oh, and a Fairlight helps too

[danijel]

Interesting, but probably too complicated for DIY building....
I guess it would be easier to have everything set up for standing, and get a really tall chair (or chair-platform), instead of driving the entire studio up and down. Or, as someone wrote before, dig a foley pit underneath the sweet spot

[mics]

Yeehaa, i got mine yesterday... Fairlight Xynergi, CC-1 Licenced for 144ch, 3 x SX-48 fully loaded. Man all that power under my fingers, just gotta learn it now....

cheers

[Bill@AudioVision]

Originally Posted by mics

.... just gotta learn it now....

Oh, I WISH I had your problem! (Hopefully in a month I will.)
Congrats, Ben!

[nathand]

Originally Posted by mics

Yeehaa, i got mine yesterday... Fairlight Xynergi, CC-1 Licenced for 144ch, 2 x SX-48 fully loaded. Man all that power under my fingers, just gotta learn it now....

cheers

What kind of PC do you got that bad boy in?

[Bill@AudioVision]

Originally Posted by nathand

What kind of PC do you got that bad boy in?

I'm sure it would have to something like this...

[mics]

Originally Posted by nathand

What kind of PC do you got that bad boy in?

It is a turnkey that fairlight put together for me.

HP quad core workstation, 4 gig ram, 2 x 300g velociraptor and 1 x 500 storage drives,ge force 9800gt vid card.

Man it weighs a ton, super fast though.

cheers

[smurfyou]

Originally Posted by mics

It is a turnkey that fairlight put together for me.

HP quad core workstation, 3 gig ram, 2 x 300g velociraptor and 1 x 500 storage drives,ge force 9800gt vid card.

Man it weighs a ton, super fast though.

cheers

I work on a Constellation with that PC. It is solid, and fast as hell. Made me rethink a lot of bad things I've said about PC's.

[nathand]

Originally Posted by mics

It is a turnkey that fairlight put together for me.

HP quad core workstation, 4 gig ram, 2 x 300g velociraptor and 1 x 500 storage drives,ge force 9800gt vid card.

Man it weighs a ton, super fast though.

cheers

What is the model number of the HP?

[Matti]

Huh!
No time to make mics anymore, playing with that...

Matti

[mics]

Originally Posted by MATTI

Huh!
No time to make mics anymore, playing with that...

Matti

No, never. always enough time to make mics. I had to get it, my tape recorder stopped recording

[Matti]

And happy with a system worth of your efforts?
Jealous...

Matti

[renec]

when I'm doing tons and tons of vo editing I just use our microsoft intellimouse, quickeys, and lots of left hand keystrokes. Protools has a one-key technique for just about everything. I use my left (keyboard) hand for navigation, cutting, and nudging regions and it stays in one place. I use my right (mouse) hand to highlight breaths and nothing else.

I used to get pain, but I switched to the Kensington trackball for mousing around at the house when that happened and the pain stopped right away.

I think there is a workable level of ergonomics that can be built into technique without a lot of esoteric hardware. The poster before who marveled at the slow mouse speed some users have is correct. Take an hour or two to really work out the ergonomics of an edit, and you can save yourself tons and tons of trouble.

[music_maker]

Hi there,

I used to edit dialogue for audio books as well. Although I used pro tools for the job and i was quite fast with it, i have heard that many audio book editors are using Sony Vegas to edit. It allows you to have a room tone underneath your dialogue track so when you cut out the mouth noise and breath the room tone is there and it automatically fades between the regions.

When i was editing on PT i had you manually paste in room tone and then i would do a batch fade at the end of the edit that would process fades for whatever i didnt put fades on.

if you have a pc check out a demo of it.

[Uncle Joe]

Originally Posted by Dallas Taylor

Sound quality? How would a Fairlight system sound better than a Pro Tools system?

G'day,

Would you like some signal path schematics ?

All the best,

Uncle Joe



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[RScott]

I work at a video production house and all of the video editors here use Wacom pen tablets. I had a trackball, but that's just a major pain for me, so I started using one of the Wacom tablets with a pen.

For me, it's a wonderful input device. Sometimes it's a bit tough to click a specific pixel without dragging a small selection before the release (which causes PT to just play the section.) Scrolling is a bit annoying if you're used to using the mouse wheel a lot, but it's so fast to drag a zoom selection it helps out in that aspect.

For dialing in plugins, or any sort of control in the system it's a godsend, because the tablet space represents the virtual space of your screen. So when you move to the far left corner of the tablet, your cursor is at the far left of the screen. It's easy to cursor to a part of the screen because the physical space on the tablet isn't relative like a trackball or mouse. Your fingers "remember" the space you're navigating, making it much easier to dial an effect up and then back down to exactly the same spot (hard with a mouse.)

And, the best thing regarding your concerns is that your wrist and hand are constantly moving around, so your right wrist (I think) is probably less prone to developing problems later on.

I have a little keyboard shelf mounted below my mixing console and it's just barely wide enough to support a Mac keyboard and widescreen Wacom tablet, plus the tablet lays flat, so I can tuck it flush with the console (under the desk part) if I need to get closer. Trackballs take up a bit too much vertical space for that.

If ergonomics are your primary concern, I would say go with this. It's a little expensive, but my hands never feel cramped at the end of the day, compared to a mouse or trackball.

[GOD]

Originally Posted by Bill@AudioVision

Oh, I WISH I had your problem! (Hopefully in a month I will.)
Congrats, Ben!

Mmmmmmm!
I will be putting my computer in a Rack.
Would be nice to have a laptop version at some point, so that I can visit the masses and implement my many miracles

[mics]

Originally Posted by GOD

Mmmmmmm!
I will be putting my computer in a Rack.
Would be nice to have a laptop version at some point, so that I can visit the masses and implement my many miracles

As long as you don't mind the PCIe breakout then you can use a laptop with fairlight.

cheers

[bizzle]

This seems cool: Euphonix :: MC Transport

[nathand]

Originally Posted by bizzle

This seems cool: Euphonix :: MC Transport

And familiar...

to those of us in Fairlight land.

[bizzle]

I was thinking of you when I saw it.

[Steven1145]

Nathan, you mean Fairlight invented the jog wheel?

[Frank S.]

That is eerily similar to the binnacle...

[A3rd.Zero]

I use an X-keys panel that I've programmed to do a bunch of my repetitive tasks, and most of the time I can keep one hand on the panel and one on the mouse. This makes the biggest difference, I have a button for example that drops my courser across all tracks saves my progress, moves me to the next region in the time line and zooms me out to my typical overview zoom factor. It's all one button. I fix a region, hit the button and the new region is basically right in front of me. It's also great for renaming regions with leading or trailing information (ala tape cue sheet printing, or character names for mixing).

I find if I don't have to mouse around or use modifier keys then I stay much more comfortable much longer.

I use a mighty mouse because of the side scrolling without using a modifier key.

I use a Freedom Chair which has traveled with me for the last three years and was a total tax write off.