FCP 5.1.1, Fostex PD6 broadcast wav files, DATS and syncing

[John Pale]

FCP 5.1.2 is supposed to come out before the end of the month and will have support for BWF files.

[John Tipton]

With a Fostex Pd-4 or Pd-2, your sound guy should be able to make dubs from your hard disc recorder. If it’s something like a sound devices 744T, it’s cake. Why can’t he do it ?

I assume you know that if you just change the suffix of a .BWF file to .WAV, it will play just like a wav file. Of course this doesn’t help you now…

john

[Michael Gissing]

Sebsky tools and bwf2xml make quicktimes from your bwf files with the embedded timecode transfered.

[Cleditor]

thanks a lot. i’ll try this for the time being and see how it works out. i had heard that the timecode info would be lost, but maybe that source was mistaken. hopefully, 5.1.2 will alleviate the problem all together.

thanks,
c

[Cleditor]

john,
do you mean just changing the .bwf to .wav will save me the trouble of using bwf2xml to convert the files? is it really that easy?
c

thanks,
c

[John Tipton]

I”m not familiar with bwf2xml, but I do know that changing the suffix, will allow you to play the file – WITHOUT time code, of course.
I do it all the time. As far as I know, a BWF is just a WAV file with a “time code chunk” added.

I just looked, bwf2xml will allow you to convert the BWF file WITH timecode. Thats what you want in this case, if I understand you correctly.

The changing the suffix trick works if you have wild sound in BWF format but don’t need the timecode.

Hope this helps!

john tipton

[Sean Lander]

Timecode will definitely come across, as I’ve used Sebsky tools to sync rushes with matched timecode in the past.
I can’t recommend it highly enough. Works much better than bwf tools. Plus it’s free.