CHAPTER 3
Audio on a Wire
ROSE’S RULES
• Analog audio wiring works fine, if you pay attention to simple voltage and grounding principles. Otherwise it can get very noisy.
• Digital audio wiring is generally free from noise issues. But it uses very high frequencies, so you have to treat this audio wiring like video.
In most professional facilities, high-resolution audio exists primarily as high-speed data or instantaneous transfers. Dialog that was recorded to hard disk or other media on the set is opened as files in the editor, with no transfer time; audio and video workstations pass content back and forth via Ethernet; client copies ...
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