Pro Tools interaction with video

Patryk Rebisz wrote on 7/8/2006, 11:00 AM

I have a video that will be sound mixed on Pro Tools (don't ask why it's the sound mixer's program of choice) and i need to know in what kind of format should i export the video as.

The video was edited at 23.98 and will be exported to 29.97. I don't want to sound mix at 29.97 because i also want to have ability to output to PAL. Or does it even matter?

Either way what's the best frame rate to output the video as and then the audio tracks as????

Comments

GlennChan wrote on 7/9/2006, 12:18 AM

I don't think the video frame matters, the audio rate will match up anyways.

(if frame rate mattered) It might be better to do 23.98[...], since to go to PAL you can speed up the film + audio to get 25fps.

To make sure you maintain sync, you can splice in some 2-pops. 2 seconds before and after the end of your picture, put 1 frame of bars + tone. In some rare situations (like quicktime photoJPEG), you can accidentally go out of sync.

put the 2-pop tone on every track

newhope wrote on 7/9/2006, 1:55 AM

Find out if the ProTools system has Digitranslator 2, (optional Digidesign software) on it. If so you should be able to output your Vegas edit as an AAF for the audio components and if the AAF is compatible ProTools can open it and the sound tracks as edited from Vegas.
My suggestion would be to create an AVI of your edited vision as a single file and import it into a copy of your Vegas edit and replace the edited vision tracks with this single rendered vision track (not its audio) but leave all the edited sound tracks as they exist.
Save this new version of your Vegas project and then output the AAF from it.
This way the AAF will include all of your audio tracks and a single vision track which should open in ProTools all in sync and as they looked in Vegas.

The sound mixer can then work from that point. Having sync 'pips' prior to the begining of sound and vision is still a good idea though.

Regards
Stephen hope
New Hope Media