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Do some wav files have some sort of burnt in timecode that Final Cut can read?
Hey all,
Hope someone can help me. I am working on a project and maybe there is a simple answer to this. I sure hope so! So let me break it down for you.
I have footage from 5 cameras. Each camera films a few seconds of a slate before they start filming the event. I also have a 5 DVDs each with wav files of different microphones from the event. I was told by the client that I should be able to match the sound from the wavs to the digital read out on the slate that is shot by each camera at the beginning of the footage.
That there should be some sort of time code on the wav files that I match this up with. Well if there is I don’t know how to read it. You import a wav file into final cut its starts at 00000000.
https://www.clerks2.com/mattt/help.jpg
Check out this screen shot. I need to know how to get A or B to read as the same numbers as C.
Because right now C on the video screen starts at 01571017 as you can see?
Does that make any sense? This is hard to explain. Hopefully one of you smart folks will know what I am talking about and be able to help me out. Till then, I will be hitting refresh on my browser.
Thanks!
MAttt
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3 Replies
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It’s probably the Broadcast wave (BWF) format, so you’ll need the BWF2XML utility to import them into FCP with TC
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools/
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Hopefully someday FCP will be able to read .wav files natively that include all the meta data. That .wav format using such devices as Zaxcom Deva’s seem to be the foemat of choice these days. Make sure you get the sound notes so you know what is on each track. The BWF2XML tool works great.
Peter McAuley
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There are 3 extra files in with the .wavs as well.
a text file that when I open it up it says “Session = /mnt/hda1/SESSION 1” The name of this file is autoload.txt
and two other files called
settings.set
SESSION 1.adlNot sure what those are. Would these files some how work with the software you speak of?
Then of course the
SLATE 1_T001_1.wav
SLATE 1_T001_2.wav
SLATE 1_T001_3.wav
SLATE 1_T001_4.wav
SLATE 1_T001_5.wav
SLATE 1_T001_6.wav
SLATE 1_T001_7.wav
SLATE 1_T001_8.wav This track is a stuttering tone track which I assume has the time code on it. But not sure how to see that time code to match it with the video slate.
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