[Steve Watkins]

I did talk to a few pro editor friends of mine before blindly stumbling off but I do have a lot to learn. converting the footage to DVCProHD wasn’t a lot of work. just took a few hours of processing time.

In the tv world of avid and physical tapes, we’d capture at 10:1, edit and up res before color.

now working at home on a personal project, I couldn’t play back the Red footage or the 5d footage easily on my G5 in their native formats. So I was advised to transcode to DVCProHD and up res later before handing it over to color.

how i finish, is what I’m trying to find out. I have a pro color house in LA doing the color on this. I was just looking for some info on what the best frame size and frame rate is for the master copy. For Airplay/DVD/Blueray/Web quality?

[Steve Watkins]

so what equipment did you use to be able to send TC on one channel and the audio on another?

[Steve Watkins]

thanks Ty. I’ll be testing away.

[Steve Watkins]

thanks for the clarification. going to try as many tests as we can at the pre-light.

[Steve Watkins]

it was in response to a “it doesn’t require a rocket scientist” comment which was retracted with an apology. no problem.

maybe I’m not explaining my situation clearly. I’m trying. II just want my music video to come out well. i have a whole crew donating their time and we’ve even been lent a Red cam with $50K worth of lenses.

I’ve been told i need to convert the song (which is a .wav file at 44.1) or syncing will be a big problem.

We’re young and ambitious and have no budget for a TC generator or sync jam slate.

I’m trying to put together a DIY plan. I live in LA and work in entertainment and still am having a hard time finding a professional who can help me out.

[Steve Watkins]

maybe it’s just me but it seams pretty condescending around here. Manners. They don’t require a rocket scientist either.

[Steve Watkins]

we are shooting in 24 fps

[Steve Watkins]

interesting stuff guys.

Well we’re not recording to tape. The red records to a hard drive.

We’re doing this on a D.I.Y. budget so there’s no way we’re going to be able to get a time code generator and send TC to the camera from playback. Or get a jam sync slate.

I have to work with what’s possible for us right now.

I know that there is time code for video and sample rates for audio. what I’m talking about is the shift that occurs having the band sing to audio recorded at 24fps drop frame. the footage is dropping a frame which effects the speed of the band singing and playing so by the end of the song there will be significant drift from the original audio track.

Therefore I’m lead to understand that i need to speed up or slow down the audio by 0.1 % or something like that.

anybody else out there do playback for music videos?