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Fire-Wire playback causing sync issues
I connected My mac Pro, Running FCP 5.1.4 to a Sony DV camera to be able to view my edit on a TV monitor, but then my edits and also my master clips gone out of sync exactly 4 frames. I talked to lots of Editors and nobody ever had this problem before. After trying a lot of things for hours and hours I luckily figured out that fire-wire connection was causing the problem….I plugged the fire wire cable of, and selected video playback to “none”, the problem is fixed. But what is exactly causing the problem, is it cable it self or the camera..I’m in a remote location right now and have no access to get new ones for a test. Is there anyway to view my edits on a TV monitor without getting out of sync ?
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When you say out of sync are you saying that the playback on your canvas is off from the playback on the output device? This happens sometimes, but you can tweak this in System Settings > Playback Control tab in the Frame Offset area. Here you can match up the sync of your out with your canvas.
If you’re feeling that the audio is out of sync with the video on your output device (deck or monitor hooked up via firewire) make absolutely sure that you are monitoring the audio from the firewire cable out (meaning from the deck you are hooked up into) and not straight from your system. You should always monitor audio via the same output you’re sending your video to because sometimes you might hear the audio playback being out of sync with the video if you’re monitoring both from seperate sources – but it’s not actually out of sync. So check on that.
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Not only the output device….Also the video on the canvas or in the viewer is out of sync with audio exactly for 4 frames… -
[cem yildirim] “Thank you for your respond….
Not only the output device….Also the video on the canvas or in the viewer is out of sync with audio exactly for 4 frames…”It’s your Playback Offset as Paul already described. Change that Offset to 4 if you are using a DV device for playback. Use 0 if you are using something like an AJA Kona board.
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