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sync prob in canvas
Hey,
I ran into some sync issues tonight during an edit. The audio was slightly ahead of the video in the canvas window. Is there something I can do to prevent this in the future?
Thanks,
Ty Ford
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Ty,
Change the default of 4 in the frame offset to 0 as it appears in my System Settings below. That should do it…
David
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Thanks David,
Yes the default was set at 4. Why would anyone want a 4 frame offset?
Is there a good way to allow the audio and/or video to be adjusted more finely against each other in the timeline? Having shifted to 0 frame offset, will my video as seen on my apple monitor be more in sync?
I’m relatively new to the technical aspects of video but learning quickly. Is there a book or video that’s a easily absorbable source for this sort of info?
For example, there are other buttons you were kind enough to forward and there are many tabs of boxes to click. I’m OK on the audio stuff, but the FCP video stuff can be overwhelming. I do have the manuals, but find they generally provoke questions they don’t answer. Have I overlooked one of the manuals?
Thanks.
Ty Ford
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[Ty Ford] “Yes the default was set at 4. Why would anyone want a 4 frame offset? “
Somebody at Apple decided to leave that in as a booby trap. I have no idea why 4 is the default, it’s just one of those things you need to remember if you’re going to use FCP.
[Ty Ford] “Is there a book or video that’s a easily absorbable source for this sort of info? “
I don’t think a book is really necessary. Everything that anyone ever didn’t know was explained more than once right here on the Cow and then reiterated again in just the last few days. Plus, you have Bob Cole and myself as resources when you’re in a bind.
[Ty Ford] “there are other buttons you were kind enough to forward and there are many tabs of boxes to click.”
Yep, but only a few that really need to know about. Once you have your primary workflow down pat all the other buttons become less important.
Hope this helps…
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.
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Yes, thanks, David.
Very much. I’ll see how that looks.
Ty
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[David Roth Weiss] “[Ty Ford] “Is there a book or video that’s a easily absorbable source for this sort of info? ” “
The F Help no long ago was something pitiful, but now is really a very good resource.“here are many tabs of boxes to click”
Come on Ty, You come from the audio world. You should have the habit of buttons, faders, leds..just in one of your audio mixers you have more buttons than in 10 editing suits put together:-)
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[Rafael Amador] “Come on Ty, You come from the audio world. You should have the habit of buttons, faders, leds..just in one of your audio mixers you have more buttons than in 10 editing suits put together:-)
rafael “Raf,
Yeah, but once you get the first eight down, the other 128 do the same thing. 🙂
Just be prepared to hear from me a lot here as I continue to stumble up the curve.
Ty
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Hi David,
I hope it’s ok for me to join this post. I am also having sync troubles..
I’ve tried different things such as moving into sync (for some reason I don’t get the option of mark in sync (it’s greyed out)) and then thought about changing the frame offset to 0 like you advised but I do not have that option ( is it because I use Final Cut Express 4?!). Any suggestions? I’m quite new to this and still learning my way around, however this is the first time I have issues with the sync and don’t remember changing any of the settings on my camera (nothing special, just a Panasonic NV-GS180 (2.3 megapixel – 3CCD… but it has served pretty well thus far) or computer (iMac 24″/3.06GHZ/2GB/500GB/SD/AP/BT).will be grateful for any suggestion on this
thanks
Mirela
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Is this a DV camera? What settings were on your media? What settings did you use to capture the material? Where are you seeing the sync loss, timeline, viewer?
All the best,
Tom
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Hi Tom,
thanks for your reply. Regarding your questions about settings etc…
the camera is a mini DV
set up: 12bit audio – ST1
Audio out – Stereo
Display – On
Remote – VCR1
LCD A1 – Dynamic
LDC Set – NO
EVF SET -NO
USB Function – Motion DV
Advanced: Rec data – On
Pict Qual – high picture quality
Repeat play – OffShutter – automatic
wide noise reductionSettings used to capture:
noticed that the audio capture in System settings – scratch disk – is ticked but greyed out the rest of the boxes are all ticked in VC VR and AR (339.0GB on Macintosh HD). As for the Playback Control – RT is safe, VQual is dynamic Frame rate is Full and tick on beep when playing unrendered audio , record – full qualitydata I captured has the following:
vid rate 25fps
frame size: 720×576
data rate: 3.6 MB/sec
Audio rate: 48.o KHZ
field domain – Lower (even)
composite – normal
alpha – none/ignoreAnd the out of sync is visible in the viewer
Hope this is all the info you needed.
many thanks for any help and feedback on this
Mirela
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