[Jeff Beaumont]

It’s definitely ADR’ed. You can see the lip sync drift in and out in several places. And the SFX were Foley’ed as Ron pointed out . They are very present and “up front” (too much for my taste) which is usually a giveaway that they are not Nat. Sound.

In your original post you asked for a book that can teach you these techniques.
Like most skills in this business you can learn a lot from books but ultimately you either have “it” or you don’t. Either way, audio is a craft that takes years to learn to do well.
So I suggest that you read Jay Rose’s “Producing Great Sound for Film and VIdeo ” but hire an audio pro in the meantime while you learn the craft.

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

from my previous post, make that “Repair Permissions”..
Also there seems to be several menu options for deleting previews and deleting cache files.
Is that a good idea? Again I don’t want to assume and make things worse for myself. It’s kind of a big project so rebuilding previews might take a while

Thanks for any help for suggestion you can give.

Jeff

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

Thanks for the feedback.
This is unfortunate. Considering how hard Adobe is pushing to get FCP users to switch you’d think they’d have helped AJA and BMD to write drivers that are as bullet proof as AJA and BMD’s FCP drivers.
We have 9 workstations we need to upgrade over the next year or so and it is hard to figure out if Adobe takes this stuff seriously. It’s obvious that Apple doesn’t anymore and Avid is too expensive.
Arrrgh!

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

Ouch! You dis me and you don’t even know who I am or what I do. Bad form IMO
I was merely pointing out that optical media is on the way out and there are alternatives. Vimeo and you Tube on the low end and any number of alternatives on the high end. I visited a movie studio a few months ago that was doing all there approval reels by FTP over night. 2k I believe though I might be wrong about that.

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

I have to disagree here. You are right about Apple declaring it dead because it suits their marketing strategy. But you are missing the point that their marketing strategy is based on market realities. Ask Blockbuster or Netflix if optical media is dead. Or ask any big box retailers if shelf space for DVDs is growing or shrinking.
No it’s not dead but it IS dying. Personally I have only burned a handful of approval DVDs in the last two years and I haven’t authored any commercial products (used to do a lot of both). Most people I know are using Vimeo and You Tube for client approvals (both have HD now, which though not Blu Ray can be substantially better than standard def DVDs). I am fortunate that my employer has a Flash video server and we have posted rough cuts and approvals for the past 3 years. Hopefully transitioning to an HTML5 (H264) solution soon.

On the other hand I’ve heard that some people still make VHS window burns and approval tapes, but that is hardly indicative of an industry trend.

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

In my experience sample rate conversion does alter the length of audio, but if you are using professional tools the difference is only a few samples on shorter clips. On a concert length recording though it is pretty significant drift.
The problem is most people who are doing it wrong aren’t using professional tools to sample rate convert. When ever someone brings me video that was shot double system with sync issues, the sample rate conversion was always part of the problem.

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

How long are the takes?. How soon does it drift? If it’s just the difference between 24fps and 23.98 then it might be easily fixable. If you have long takes there maybe be other issues too.
For example converting the sample rate will almost always create some drift.
Also how are you capturing the audio from DAT? If you are going analog that’s another potential problem.
The fact that the audio files where saved as movies indicates that the person who did the transfer didn’t know what they were doing. Go back to the source files.
In the future ALWAYS use 48Khz (24bit if possible) NEVER sample rate convert. I would recommend against DAT. A solid state recorder (Sound Devices, Fostex, etc.) is going to be more reliable and easier to use. especially in post.
And if you are shooting film you really should be using some sort of a timecode sync system.

Jeff Beaumont

[Jeff Beaumont]

You totally missed the seriousness of his question. He DID go back to 7.3.1 and now his system is unstable. Going back to an even earlier verion of QT will only make things worse. Espercially since Apple provides no uninstall utilities.

I re-installed 7.3.1 on one of our systems when an Editor made an unauthorised upgrade to QT7.4; and experienced much pain to get the system stable again.

I beleive that some upgrades to the ProApps require an upgrade of QT and some don’t. So going back several versions of QT would require research to get the right versions of all apps installed and a little luck. Not recommended.