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Given the self admission of little expertise & experience, I would recommend sending the audio to a sound post pro with a variety of tools.
In my experience CEDAR is the best of all de noise, de buzz and de hum tools. Waves also makes some excellent restoration plugins.
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You could also think of sending the PAL master to a facility with a Teranex or similar hardware converter and doing a real time standards conversion.
Given that you have wasted a week with software solutions, it would have been cheaper to outsource this job properly to a hardware based conversion.
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Perhaps the stereo voice over tracks are actually 2 track mono and one of the tracks is out of phase. When that is summed to mono, the VO cancels.
On the VO tracks, try muting one side and panning the other track to centre and see if that fixes it. If the files are stereo, you might have to unlink to mute one side.
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Audio is audio. Adding timecode really doesn’t change its actual timing which is locked by crystal sync to the sample rate. Timecode is simply add on data.
As to why the original files sync and not the Fostex ones, I can only hazard a guess that something else also changed on the shoot and the camera was changed from 24 to 23.98 . The drift rate is consistent with that scenario.
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I haven’t heard of a plugin that can understand the mumbled slate that most camera assistants do. That job is usually undertaken before editing by a human – still the smartest thing you will find in an edit suite.
As always, it takes longer when you think about it afterwards.
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Firstly a drift of a frame per minute sounds like .1% so 4% up or down is way off the mark.
Even if the metadata is flagged for 25, then it still is 48Khz. Is your timeline 23.98 or 24? My guess is that the speed drift is more likely the difference between 23.98 and true 24.
Try a .1% slow down of the 25 fps files and see if they go back into sync.
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HDV is upper field so don’t change it to lower because it isn’t. The DV is lower which is also what the sequence setting should be. Firstly check your sequence setting to make sure that it is set to lower, because if it isn’t and the HDV has a shift field filter, then it will be wrong. You didn’t identify which shots have a field error. Perhaps it is the DV and not the HDV. Also there is an opportunity to get the field order wrong making the DVD. Are you monitoring externally on an interlace monitor? Are you sure the error is in FCP or the DVD process which you gave no detail about?
Shift field filter on HDV works. If you are seeing field errors then there is a mismatch going on for sure. Also check that there aren’t two shift field filters on clips or that the filter is there but deselected.
Also it helps to know what version of FCP and details on sequence settings in a post to help take as much guessing out of answering.
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For your setup then the Convergent box makes sense. Another alternative is the Sony HVR 1500 – 9 pin & SDI. It is a vastly better transport plus it has all the SDI & genlock functionality.
Apart from Convergent there was also Miranda. https://www.miranda.com/product.php?i=323
Again it has been years and both boxes appear to have developed. I was particularly critical of both units because they didn’t have external genlock. I notice the Miranda now does. Without genlock, 9 pin timing is likely to be unreliably frame accurate.
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The Convergent box came out a few years ago and I did experiment with it when it was just released. However, I preferred to use a Canon XL H1 and capture to Uncompressed HD.
With FCP 6 however, I have been using the workflow of capture as HDV, Render ProRes and output HD SDI via Decklink to HDCam. If you want to capture ProRes then you can via firewire now. Have a look at Chris Poisson’s article here
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/poisson_chris/hdv-prores.phpI think the intent of the Convergent box is good, but there are lots of workarounds and different workflows available.
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To insert to tape from FCP your in and out points clear of any transitions like dissolves etc?
Plugins like CC & deinterlace aren’t the issue. I don’t know the Kona products but it may also be that your drivers are not matched to the version of FCP