Time code help!!!!

revriff wrote on 7/19/2004, 1:03 PM

My church uses Vegas 5 for editing video..I video our music team (full band) and transfer to external hard drive and record the music on a Yamaha 4416 16 track recorder so that I can "post mix". What I need help on is this: Is there a way I can sync up the audio and video through Vegas 5 by downloading the music to Acid or Soundforge? I need to match the lips on video and the music on audio back up after editing. I'm trying to get around buying a dsr25 dvcam recording deck.

Please help if you can.

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jetdv wrote on 7/19/2004, 1:07 PM

I would just sync them the way I do multiple cameras. Put the video WITH AUDIO on the timeline, put the external audio on the timeline, find a common point on both audio tracks and line them up. Once aligned, either mute or delete the camera's audio track.

Chienworks wrote on 7/19/2004, 1:51 PM

Vegas will do everything you need in this respect. There isn't anything in ACID or SoundForge that would be any more helpful.

Some sort of clapboard would be very handy for this. Even if you just had someone clap once loudly with large arm movements right at the beginning of the recording you should be able to easily sync the clap sound to the frame of the hands coming together. After that there shouldn't be enough drift to worry about.

revriff wrote on 7/19/2004, 2:31 PM

Thanks to you both...on the audio side, I'll have to burn the audio from my recorder to a CD, I guess I'll just have to rip that to place the audio in Vegas 5? As you can tell I'm new to this so all help is really appreciated.

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/19/2004, 2:31 PM

What I'd recommend in this situation, is if you want to mix in Vegas, then do a transfer of all 16 either as a group of 16, or use an 8 channel input system and capture 8 at a time. Lining them up will be easy. In fact, your 8 channel input device will likely have SMPTE to MTC on it. Use that to sync the 4416 to Vegas. When you press Play on the Yamaha, Vegas will start recording.
If you want to mix with the Yamaha in post, you could do the same, except use the offset feature of Vegas to offset when the video and audio start. A 5 second pre-roll should be plenty.
Finally, you could take your raw channels, mix them to stereo as for your final output, drop that stereo mix into Vegas and edit based on that.
And again, syncing in Vegas is quite simple as Jetdv and Chienworks suggested earlier.
Vegas can be a SMPTE master or slave.