Commit clip is too hot!! Help!

[firmflange]

I want to commit a clip to a new track as it's original volume and now it turns out like a hot, compressed waveform!

I've tried just about everything I could think of:
- Made sure volume levels were all '0'
- Checked and unchecked all the automated reneder choices in the boxes in the 'Commit Track' box
- Made sure there were no effects on any insert boxes to get applied to the committed track
- Help!

[firmflange]

Anyone?

[amagras]

Originally Posted by firmflange

- Made sure volume levels were all '0'

Check the output volume of the VI, if 0 is too hot try -6 or -12 or -whateverworks
Good luck

[firmflange]

I was PM'ing amagras and mentioned that how I make a finished track is that I make a mixdown, then trip that waveform, then commit it to it's finished track.

It's like it's being compressed and I still can't figure it out how to get it to commit and look like the original waveform.

To my knowledge I'm not using and VI's.

[Stig Eliassen]

What happens if you set the auto mode to read instead of off on the track PRINT?

[DarkandKurious]

Originally Posted by firmflange

I was PM'ing amagras and mentioned that how I make a finished track is that I make a mixdown, then trip that waveform, then commit it to it's finished track.

It's like it's being compressed and I still can't figure it out how to get it to commit and look like the original waveform.

To my knowledge I'm not using and VI's.

Have you turned up the clip gain on the original audio? I can see the clip gain for the committed track, but what is the clip gain on the original? From memory, the audio on a track can be above 0dBFS, but doesn't clip because the mixer is running as 32bit floating point, and the volume of the fader can drop the volume to acceptable levels. The waveform won't necessarily look clipped because clip gain seems to just act like a zoom and ignores the output volume. But if you commit and uncheck the volume setting, it will render the audio relative to 0dBFS, anything over will be clipped.

Try freezing the original track and see if that then looks clipped also.

Hopefully I've explained this clearly enough, sorry if I haven't.

Does it sound like a clipped version of the original?

[firmflange]

Originally Posted by Stig Eliassen

What happens if you set the auto mode to read instead of off on the track PRINT?

This is really strange. I Commit the track in READ mode, and it worked, then I try it one more time without changing ANYTHING... and it went compressed again!
Dark - that is very interesting. I don't know much about the terminology of "32bit floating point".

[firmflange]

Originally Posted by DarkandKurious

Have you turned up the clip gain on the original audio? I can see the clip gain for the committed track, but what is the clip gain on the original? From memory, the audio on a track can be above 0dBFS, but doesn't clip because the mixer is running as 32bit floating point, and the volume of the fader can drop the volume to acceptable levels. The waveform won't necessarily look clipped because clip gain seems to just act like a zoom and ignores the output volume. But if you commit and uncheck the volume setting, it will render the audio relative to 0dBFS, anything over will be clipped.

Try freezing the original track and see if that then looks clipped also.

Hopefully I've explained this clearly enough, sorry if I haven't.

Does it sound like a clipped version of the original?

Hi Dark, the clip remains unchanged whether I raise or lower volume on the source track.

[firmflange]

My mistake, the volume and mute options helped.

[DarkandKurious]

Originally Posted by firmflange

My mistake, the volume and mute options helped.

So when you committed with the volume automation in read, and had the volume ticked as a commit option, the track committed okay?

On the original bounce, if you set the metering to pre-fader, do you see yellow clip lights on the track? If the metering is set post-fader, do you see clip lights on the track?