Problem: the bit meter doesn’t show the correct values while rendering.
Setup: One clip in the montage, two plugins in the montage track (external effects out to an analogue chain, and a limiter), one in master section (extra metering), one in the dither section, and speaker correction in Playback processing.
When playing back, all is well, and the bit meter shows whichever word length has been chosen in the dither plugin. However, when rendering (in real-time, due to the exfx), the meter always shows the full 32 bits. No settings have been changed. Note that the resulting file has indeed been reduced in bit length, and ticking/unticking Bypass master section makes no difference.
Am I missing something here? This actually freaks me out, as I’m starting to second-guess whether the dither has actually been applied. Also note that by moving the dither plugin to the montage clip/track/output, the bit meter operates correctly during the render.
I could reproduce the problem. This is because the meters are fed with the signal after the Master Section sliders, not after the Final Effects. I will fix that for 10.0.50.
Hey PG, isn’t the way it works now correct though? Wasn’t this done intentionally by design? Don’t we want the meters to always be pre-playback FX section? Maybe I’m confused about the way this works for rendering with hardware…
I would never want to see meters post-playback effect… For example, if using room correction EQ, I would never want to see the spectrometer display AFTER room correction EQ had been applied.
The way I read it, the bug is that the meters are pre final effects (the ‘dither slot’, so to speak) and they should be after these. That is still before the playback processing slots.
The way I read it, the bug is that the meters are pre final effects (the ‘dither slot’, so to speak) and they should be after these. That is still before the playback processing slots.
Exactly. The meters should reflect what is exactly rendered to file, nothing more, nothing less.
