Here's a trap!
Just started work on event we shot last night, a dance performance. Got a feed from the desk and used the R4 to record things like tap mics that weren't being fed to house mix. For some odd reason we could only get a mono feed from the desk but no sweat, they gave us the CDs of the dance music.
So I started syncing that up to our recordings but shock horror it's out enough to cause problems. Well, duh, I finally realise, the venues CD players have speed control and I'd bet even on 'lock' they're not that accurate.
But here's a question for a ways down the track. Say we're running all our cameras with genlock. I know one can get sync generators that also generate audio clocks but can one get things like CD players that'll lock onto those clocks as well?
It does explain why someone I bumped into was doing wht they were doing. They'd dubbed all their audio to a DB deck for playback at the venue. At the time I thought they were nuts tying up all that expensive kit to do what a CD player could do, now I understand the logic of it.
One last thing, a simple Vegas feature request. Markers that can be locked to tracks, not the T/L. That'd make sample accurate syncing so much easier.
Bob.
Just started work on event we shot last night, a dance performance. Got a feed from the desk and used the R4 to record things like tap mics that weren't being fed to house mix. For some odd reason we could only get a mono feed from the desk but no sweat, they gave us the CDs of the dance music.
So I started syncing that up to our recordings but shock horror it's out enough to cause problems. Well, duh, I finally realise, the venues CD players have speed control and I'd bet even on 'lock' they're not that accurate.
But here's a question for a ways down the track. Say we're running all our cameras with genlock. I know one can get sync generators that also generate audio clocks but can one get things like CD players that'll lock onto those clocks as well?
It does explain why someone I bumped into was doing wht they were doing. They'd dubbed all their audio to a DB deck for playback at the venue. At the time I thought they were nuts tying up all that expensive kit to do what a CD player could do, now I understand the logic of it.
One last thing, a simple Vegas feature request. Markers that can be locked to tracks, not the T/L. That'd make sample accurate syncing so much easier.
Bob.