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    Inactive Member SilverMotion's Avatar
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    Hello, I am working on a short that involves sync sound. I have a decent background in audio production and recording but that has been without the need for sync. Also I have not yet tested to see if my cameras running sound bleeds into the audio, but I will save my questions about blimping for another post.

    I know how to manually sync sound that has been recorded after the fact but for the first time now I am simultaneously doing sound capture while shooting. I would like to sync with code but I am not able to find super 8 sound stock (on which I would have dumped smpte).

    Has anyone had any experience with some sort of code sync or somthing that would allow me to line things up later (other than the old clapper slate) Any suggestions?

    Thank you

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    Hi!

    Well, the easiest thing to do is simply head and tale slate the takes and then stretch or shrink the audio in post to fit. You really don't even need to slate, actually. Just have one of your actors clap their hands at the beginning of the scene and then at the end when you yell cut. It's easy as pie to line up aftwards on the timeline. I've yet to see a time that it doesn't work. Good luck!

    Roger Evans

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    hello,
    I also find top and tail slates work well. Make sure you take a little bit of time to give good audio id's and easy to read slates. Once I haved digitised the footage, I tweek the speed/duration of the video to match the audio.
    If you use a sound super 8 camera some run quieter also. But depending on how close you are to the subject, size of room and how loud the dialogue is etc, you might want some from of barney. (you can always wrap it up in a jacket)

    Si

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    Here are the super 8 experts:
    http://members.aol.com/fmgp
    www.super8sound.com

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    If you use a non crystal camera running at 24 fps can you can still achieve synch if the shots are kept fairly short and you do the head/tail slate technique?

    Brad

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    Yes, but it can and will fail you at times. The better the camera/batteries the better the chances. Often the sync won't look quite right, sometimes it will drift, sometimes it will drift in and out of sync. If you use a compression/expansion program you get artifacts and often you can not equalize your track properly because you have an effect on the audio. It gets worse as you try to add noise filters or other effects to clean up the scrambled eggs that was a simple dialog just 20 minutes earlier. The less you need to do the better and that is especially true with audio.

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