[Bob Barlen]

Hello All,

I've just shot a film on super 16, and I've transfered it to MiniDV. I've also imported the audio in wav format. My question is this:

Is there any way for me to synchronize and combine the audio and video tracks into one file? Right now I need to set a marker at the slate clap, and then I need to set a marker on the audio clap point, and I need to drag them seperately on the timeline. The problem with this is that when I want to move a scene, I need to grab the video and audio tracks seperately.

Is there any way for me to combine the two? When I captured the video into Final Cut 3, I captured it with "No Audio" since there wasn't any audio on the MiniDV tape. Was this the right thing to do?

If anyone has done this before and can offer some advice, I'd appreciate it.

[direktor]

If you have a short project, and don't mind syncing audio on your timeline that you're editing on too, you can just link your audio and video tracks together by selecting the appropriate clips on the timeline and hitting command-L.

A second (and upon thought, better) option would be to create your synced takes, and then subclip them to another bin. That might be the best option of all because if you lose all your media, you can still re-digitize. Just don't be afraid to make all the bins you need to stay organized.

Spelled out, this would be:

1-Drag each take to the timeline
2-Sync it up to the appropriate audio take
3-Do all the takes on one big timeline (sequence), and leave a little space between each one.
4-For each synced take, set the in and out ON THE TIMELINE ITSELF, and then hit command-U. This will create a subclip in your bin with synced audio.
5-Repeat, making sure you put each new subclip in a bin just for all these new subclips.

Good luck...

[tr]

Originally posted by Bob Barlen:
<STRONG>Hello All,

I've just shot a film on super 16, and I've transfered it to MiniDV. I've also imported the audio in wav format. My question is this:

</STRONG>

just a question, when you pulled the MiniDV into FCP, did you have to mess with the fps to get your audio to sync, since your 16mm film wasn't shot at 29.97?

i've done Super 8--&gt;MiniDV--&gt;FCP, but i never had to sync audio to the footage. but recently i had to rip some stuff from a DVD, and i could never get the audio and video tracks to sync. i then realized that i had to change the fps to 24 from 29.97., since the original movie was shot on film at 24 fps. or at least, that's what i think.

tr

[Bob Barlen]

Direktor: Thanks, I'll try that. It's about 30 minutes of rushes, so it shoudn't be a huge job to sync it all up. I wasn't aware that subclips would retain the audio track information.

I have actually broken up the entire file into subclips already, but without the sound files added to the main clip. I guess I'll add the audio to the main file (or at the very least, re-subclip the entire project)

TR:

I transfered the 24fps 16mm film to D-Beta (non drop frame), and from the D-Beta I went to MiniDV. From what I've read, film shot at 24fps ends up at the equivalent film speed of 23.97 on the video transfer. To be honest, I haven't really tweaked the audio yet, but I'm pretty sure that I need to import the audio at 29.97 fps for perfect sync. I'll try both ways, and let you know.

[direktor]

What you do with the audio to make it sync up depends on how you recorded it.

I mean, if you recorded it on minidisc, or consumer dat, you' re not going to be able to do too much to it to make it sync up with a 24fps telecine transfer short of taking it into Pro-Tools and slowing it down.

If it was on a Nagra or pro DAT machine, then you should have slowed it down while digitizing it into Mac by 1.001 percent.

In all, if your takes are shorter than 2-3 minutes, you'll be alright doing nothing probably...but if your master shots are 4-5-6 minutes long, you might wind up wishing you had found a solution because you'll wind up doing more audio editing than otherwise.

For the record, OCN shot at 24 fps gets xfered at 23.95 fps...

[ 03-27-2002: Message edited by: direktor ]