Any Tips / Hints on external recording / syncing it all back up again ?

[ja_swaer]

Hi there.

Well, this was my first shoot with an external zoom recorder. We marked all the scenes with a board and did a clap on each take but ultimately the audio was not turned off each time we stopped filming and as a result I have roughly 24 audio files and 36 'ish video takes. In total about 2 hours worth of files.

Not all the takes are keepers and I am now having to go through each audio and video clip to try to sync them back up.

Since I can't see much else being done to make this shoot easier, what are you folks doing that I should look into for next time.

I realize that if I had a 1-1 match that would help. What about writing down the clip numbers / file number ? Anyone do that ?

Any other tips for managing the different clips that would help ?

Thanks

 

[David W. Jones]

Your clapper loader could vocally slate each scene as well. Scene 6 take 4 CLAP!

 

[reelaxed]

or accept the challenge! couple of weeks ago I went through the same thing, A/V files not named or marked in any way. Needless to say, it took me the entire week but you have to enjoy it.

 

[sandisfield]

You can look at software like Plural Eyes, which I have heard works very well. Were you the Production Mixer?