organizing location sound files for final cut

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:09 am

Any ideas/opinions on practical ways to organize digital recordings of location film dialogue, so that when the final cut is ready, the correct portions of dialogue are easy to locate and sych up?

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:57 pm

Well usually the audio is synched to the picture before the edit starts. In other words all audio is synched to all the picture that is to be used during the edit. The editor needs the picture with sound anyway. If you mean how this edited audio can be re-conformed at the audio studio, well if the material was grabbed from time coded source, it can be done (protools has an autoconform option, although i must admit i've never had the opportunity to use it).
Otherwise logging your source material scene-wise makes most sense if you would have to do this manually- same as picture numbering i suppose- scene number, shot number, take number and time code location for each tape.

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:48 pm

Thanks RX, how do you set up a digital recorder in relation to a digital video camera, so that the time code numbers will be precisely identical for all footage of the video camera and all wav files generated by the recorder?

Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:27 pm

O.K. I think I figured it out. You put both machines in "Free Run Jam
Once" mode, then the timecode keeps running like a clock whether the camera is rolling or not and whether or not the recorder is recording, untill you turn off the machines. So you get identical matching timecode numbers for each day or long session of shooting.

Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:09 pm

As I understand it, the limitation with this technology is that the wav
files get time code stamped only once at the beginning, rather than
throughout the file.

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