P2 Sync Problem

[Scott W. Smith]

I just got a call from a director who is editing a short film I was DP on in '07 and she is having a sync issue with FCP and P2 footage. She can preview the footage and all is good, but in the time line is where the problem occurs.

She says some times the audio is ahead five frames and some time two. (So she can't just manually adjust it.) She is trying to edit a scene today for an additional grant. She tried the re-boot thing and just about anything else I could suggest.

Is it a pull-down problem?

FYI-The footage was shot in 720P 24.

 

[andynick]

Similar problem here!

This is the first time I've experienced audio sync problems in the 12 months I've been using the camera - all that's changed is I've upgraded to FC Studio 2 . . .

I tried dragging contents folder and last clip txt files from each of the two No Name (drives?) to separate folders on my desktop then I used FCP Log and Transfer from there. The clips play fine in the Log and Transfer window but once I drop the resulting clip onto the FCP timeline, the audio is WAY out of sync - about five or ten seconds.

So I reverted to my old method - L&T direct from the P2 cards on the Panny to capture scratch folder on the G-Raid drive with exactly the same result as above - with the audio cutting in at the same point too.

Footage, Easy Setup and Timeline are all DVCPRO HD720p 25fps.