[Shawn Hyper]

As for timeline, audio has its own metric, that’s sampling rate. The video frame is used as a relative reference. That’s to say, as far as the sampling rate is not changed, the audio will keep its absolute position on the timeline, and will keep its absolute length also. Frame rate conversion is for video, not for audio. If video frame rate conversion is done correctly, the audio should be in sync. If not, maybe something wrong happened during the conversion.

[Shawn Hyper]

Thanks for the reply.

However,if a few seconds of recording at the front of the tape are necessary for the tape deck to lock up it’s playback before dropping into record, but after that there’s no control track data or time code on the tape, the deck has no reference to adjust its motor speed, it can record all kinds of tracks on the fly, right? If so, why the stripping is needed?

Seems complicated. Or where can we find info about how those DigiBeta decks work?