In this case, the problem was the preview window

Labatt50 wrote on 7/15/2002, 7:12 PM
Another problem sorted out...I was asking in an earlier message why I was not able to key still pics to the rapid-fire beats of a song. No matter what I did, one or more of the pics would come in early, or late...very frustrating. Just to let those interested know I found out the problem I had is with the preview window. I rendered the section and ran it on TV...everything was exactly where it should have been.

brian

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Grazie wrote on 7/16/2002, 12:51 AM
Yes I'm interested. Can you explain your Rapid Fire method?

Grazie
Labatt50 wrote on 7/16/2002, 5:41 AM
Sure...I wanted to simulate the creation of the universe and found a song which is fast and furious...Nightwish's 'The Kinslayer'. Film starts with a short narration and blackness, then galaxies and global clusters "explode" into view with each beat of the song. Galaxies spin for split second, star clusters zip into view, and I've overlapped thin bars of white and black to simulate the actual Big Bang. As I said, it was critical that each pic come in exactly on a "beat" of the song.

brian
Grazie wrote on 7/16/2002, 8:42 AM
Hmmmm...

I've used the "M" key for putting in a marker; listen to the sound; use the marker to tag the clip to the marker. There will be a little latency but with judicious application of your finger you can get it close to the beat. Is that what you wanted or are actually doing?

Grazie
Labatt50 wrote on 7/16/2002, 7:44 PM
Hi Grazie:

I've been doing it manually...zooming right in to the start of the beat, and moving the clip to that location. I will give the M a try. I learned today also that the lag time in the video preview is the caused by my new firewire hard drive, where I've moved all my video files...it isn't as fast as the internal drive, and it appears as if the still and "beat" are out of sync. Fortunately the rendered clip is bang on.

brian