Does anyone know if you upload the Diamante audio file to your computer, will the audio file sync with your Eclipse ecl file?  I realize you may have to rename it the same name as your ecl file but will the audio sync? 

 

Has anyone tried this before?  I would love feedback on this. 

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Kelli, I'm on Catalyst but did have the Passport with Catalyst.  Now I have the Diamante.  The Passport audio will not sync up with Catalyst unless they fixed it.  But my understanding is the Diamante is supposed to read the audio file with the note file into Eclipse if you do it right.  I don't think it would sync up if you take the audio file separately from the Diamante and try to sync it to Eclipse.  But you should be able to get Stenograph support, if you have it for your Diamante, to help you with that.

 

Thanks, Kerry.  That's what I was afraid of.  I will ask about it.

Kelli,

 

I use a Diamante and Eclipse software.  When I want the audio off the Diamante, what you do is upload the file for your job to Eclipse.  This is just one file per job on the Diamante.   I go into Eclipse and read that file into Eclipse, and it separates that file into a .not file and an .wav file.  Then I take the .not file and translate it and I get an .ecl and .dix file as well.  I name those something slightly different so they don't overwrite any existing .ecl file I might want to keep.  Then I rename the .wav file to match the existing .ecl file I have and it is synced perfectly.  If you just want the audio, you can probably skip the translating step if you have an .ecl file and your audio is bad.  The audio on the Diamante will sync with Eclipse.

So, Lisa, are you telling me my realtime ecl file will sync with Diamante wav file without translating the .not file?  I got a new laptop and the audio is not that great.  Everyone is raving about the audio quality from the Diamante, so I was wondering if I could just use that audio.

@Lisa - that's awesome.  I've always wanted to know if you could sync the audio files from any of the writers to Eclipse.  And that sounds fairly easy too.

 

How much memory does a Diamante file take up on your writer?  I'm not familiar with the Diamante so I'm not sure what form of memory it has.

 

 

Well, I am sorry.  I was incorrect in part of what I said.  I just tried now to upload the .not file and take the audio from it and rename it to the realtime ecl file, and it wasn't synced.  It only syncs with the .not file that you upload and translate.  For some reason I thought I did that once in the past, but trying it now, it is not synced.   But if you upload the entire job, notes and audio, from the Diamante to Eclipse, that is perfectly synced.
There is literally tons of space.  I could take probably 50 jobs and still have room left, and that's with audio.

Lisa did a pretty good job describing how to do it, and I'll expand on a couple things she mentioned.

 

1. You don't necessarily have to read the note file from your Diamante to get the audio. You can take the SD card from the Diamante and put it into your computer, then look into the SD card through windows and find the .wav file in the jobs folder there. Then just copy and paste it into your Eclipse jobs folder.  You would probably also need to rename the .wav to match the existing .ecl file that corresponds with the audio. (Assuming you did realtime to Eclipse already for this job). Doing it this way avoids having to be careful in naming the .not file and subsequent .ecl file when translating.  However, you open yourself up to #2.

 

2. The audio may not match word for word. If the audio doesn't match perfectly, you can always do a timecode offset. Tech support should be able to help you with that if you need.

Thanks, Joshua

 

I have not used the Diamante audio with Eclipse yet, but it is nice to have it as an option since the audio on my W7 new computer is so crappy. 

The audio is bad on your Windows 7 computer?

 

Are you using an external microphone? Have you checked your compression settings in Eclipse? Is "Microphone Boost" enabled in Windows? There's alot of factors that go into the audio performance, but I think it's more than likely fixable for you.

 

Once again it's something tech support for Eclipse can DEFINITELY help you with, or I could take a stab at it here.

 

 

I have already talked to tech support.  I have used an external microphone and W7 will not recognize it at all.  I think using the internal microphone works the best, or having the videographer plug into my computer works, as well.  There is still some white noise in the back ground, though.  I think I need to lower the microphone boost and maybe that will go away.  When I have the boost all the way up, the sound is worse. 

 

I want to go back to XP.  The sound quality on my XP computer is excellent.  That computer is 3 1/2 years old and can't rely on it forever, though.

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