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Author Topic: Audio Description issues Geoff Power Film Handler Posts: 38 From: Pershore, Worcs, UK Registered: Apr 2012 posted 07-31-2014 07:48 AM                    We have a conventional 5.1 sound system plus enhanced sound (AI) on channel 7 and audio description (VI) on channel 8. Our visually impaired customer complains that if he wears the headphones tuned to 8 he gets a clear audio description but the regular soundtrack is muffled by the phones. He ends up with one earpiece off-ear so that he can hear both, but it's uncomfortable and unsatisfactory. Is it possible to patch both AI and VI tracks to channel 8, leaving channel 7 with just the AI sound? Or are we missing something here? We ran a test today and all agreed that the phones detract from the clarity of the speech in particular.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-31-2014 07:59 AM                     You are not alone in your complaint. One "feature" of the Doremi system is one can send in "stereo" so one gets the HI and VI tracks (one in each ear). There is probably justification in exploring the ability to mix channels but there is likely not to find consensus on just what the mix should be or if people would prefer just an ear bud for the VI so they can hear the rest of the sound more "naturally."  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 07-31-2014 09:17 AM                     Get different earsets, or do your own mix. The Doremi system is too limited in channel and mix selection in my opinion. I know a few cinemas use external cheap A/D converters to create their own input signals for the transmitter. They will eat consumer S/P-DIF from these devices. A lot of features come without HI/VI, and with an external A/D, you can also create and broadcast a traditional HI mix from the processors HI or monitor output. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged

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