Multigroup in FCPX like you can in Avid?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Andreas Kiel] “No. There can be any distance between them. So for fun you can meet at an airport with some friends, sync all the Lockits with a master one and fly to different places and shoot.”

That does sound like fun. Where do we sign up? 😉

[Andreas Kiel] “LTC also is a really underestimated thing in these days.”

No kidding.

The role of LTC seems to be defaulting to recorded audio tracks these days.

Even the new version of Pr now has built in audio syncing.

LTC is, by far, more accurate, but plain audio is much more prevalent and convenient, and of course, it’s cheaper.

On the latest round of spots that I completed on fcpx, I used FCPX’s synchronize clips feature to sync double sound.

It did very well on almost everything. These were golf based spots and on several clips, the clap slate was synced to the hit of the golf ball. Watching it in real time was actually quite funny.

I think all smart slates should sound like a golf swing from now on.

🙂

[Andreas Kiel]

Jeremy,

When I was much younger than today I always thought this audio based LTC is the worst thing which can be done. Now I’m older, living in a new world of editing having the option to use any crap for recording video — I love it.

Some other fun experiment I may do:
Hopefully some friends and me will go for boat tour either early or late summer. I did some nice private videos of some of those tours we did 2 years ago. But this year everything will be different. A friend of my friend does have a Quad-Copter. So we will install my GoPro to the copter and attach an iPod shuffle to the audio in of the GoPro. The iPod Shuffle will have a 24h LTC as the only song on it. The iPod has a pretty good constant playback rate – but battery performance is pretty short.
As the iPod also transmits via Bluetooth we could use (not tested yet) a Bluetooth audio receiver connected to the “on board” cam(s). There will be a transmitting delay, but it should be constant on the river, we have tested that on a free non winding road with the GoPro Black.

Anyway — LTC is cool.
You can configure a Lockit in way that for example only the first 2 seconds of a clip will be covered by this crazy noise then the camera mic will take over. This way any cam with no TC-in but Audio-in can be used together with any cam with TC-in (and/or audio recorder) and they are jam synched. A customer of mine is doing that for several daily soaps.

– Andreas

P.S. If there is anybody who wants to sponsor the above mentioned holiday with the experiment — let me know 😉

Spherico
https://www.spherico.com/filmtools

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