For those who have the need to sync dozens (or hundreds) of clips shot with double-system sound, here are a couple of solutions recently announced. These will save you from the drudgery of having to manually match up and sync each clip based either on a slate or timecode. Instead, these utilities will use time-of-day timecode to match all the clips for you in a few minutes.
Sync-n-Link
http://www.assistedediting.com/Sync-N-Link/
Demo can be seen here:
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/training/richmedia/10569.html
SequenceLiner
http://www.spherico.de/filmtools/sequenceLiner/index.html
These work slightly differently but the end result is having all of your video sync'd up to your audio tracks.
Both rely upon time-of-day timecode. By synchronizing the timecode of the camera and recorder, these utilities can match up clips automatically. If the timecodes are slightly offset, it's possible to make adjustments to get all the clips to sync perfectly based on that offset.
This is especially valuable for those doing reality-type documentaries where slating every shot might not be practical nor possible.
SequenceLiner is free for now and worth grabbing even if you don't have an immediate use for it.
Sync-n-Link
http://www.assistedediting.com/Sync-N-Link/
Demo can be seen here:
http://www.studiodaily.com/main/training/richmedia/10569.html
SequenceLiner
http://www.spherico.de/filmtools/sequenceLiner/index.html
These work slightly differently but the end result is having all of your video sync'd up to your audio tracks.
Both rely upon time-of-day timecode. By synchronizing the timecode of the camera and recorder, these utilities can match up clips automatically. If the timecodes are slightly offset, it's possible to make adjustments to get all the clips to sync perfectly based on that offset.
This is especially valuable for those doing reality-type documentaries where slating every shot might not be practical nor possible.
SequenceLiner is free for now and worth grabbing even if you don't have an immediate use for it.