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Stereo Tracks don’t Sync
Hi,
I am currently syncing sound on a short film that was shot a few weeks ago now. When sound was recorded on a mono track, the sound and the footage sync up just fine, no problems at all; however, when I have stereo tracks (they are stereo because they recorded sound with a Boom microphone AND a wireless lav microphone) the sound and the footage don’t sync up. I am syncing sound with the slate, but when I get to some dialogue, the sound isn’t in sync. I have tried with other stereo and mono tracks and I get the same issue with the stereo tracks.
Does anyone know if it was a problem with they recorded sound? Or am I just missing something?
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Don’t have a solution to the sync issue (maybe a delay in the wireless sender, or a location mixer, or the audio delay caused by a boom situated some distance away – although I’ve never seen any of this occur) but if you have sound from a boom and a lav, surely it isn’t stereo – it’s dual mono. If you capture it as such, you can slip the sound in sync. If you have accidentally linked it as stereo on capture, then un-link it (Alt-L I think) and slip one track to fix the issue. You will also have to set the pans back as appropriate.
Hope that helps.
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I might have spoken too soon when I the mono tracks where synced and the stereo couldn’t. We had shot on 2 cameras and only 1 of the cameras syncs well with the sound, and the other camera can’t seem to keep up with the sound. I’ve been trying to convert the video or audio to different speeds, but no luck yet. We believe the one camera was shooting at a different frame rate because it had a VSU attached to it, but the camera team says it was set to 24fps.
And it was recorded on a TASCAM HD.
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