• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Audio Time-Shift

  Posted by Tom Bell on June 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm

  Hi,

  Im not sure if this is in the correct forum… so apologies if not.

  Ive got an HD-CAM master running at 23.98 and a 5.1 surround audio supplied on a DA88 tape running at 25 (PAL).

  I need to capture the DA88 tape either at 23.98 (obviously the duration needs to stay the same) or convert from 25 to 23.98 after capture. Im wondering if there is a time-shift plug in in FCP or possibly Soundtrack?

  Thanks,
  Tom.

  Michael Gissing replied 16 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Arnie Schlissel

  June 9, 2009 at 4:33 am

  In Soundtrack you can stretch (or in your case compress) the audio to fit the runtime without shifting its pitch. In FCP you can only do this by shifting its pitch.

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  Michael Gissing

  June 9, 2009 at 5:00 am

  I strongly recommend you take the tape to an audio post facility to get it into a file that can be run through either Pitch ‘N Time or MPEX3 software to stretch without changing pitch.

  If it is a long form show, the percentage is complicated, not a neat 4.1% but with lots of decimals or you will get drift. Time stretching without proper pitch correction will shift the audio 3/4 of a semitone flat. Not nice. Bad pitch correction sounds awful.

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