Sync'ing double system sound w/ timecode

Rippie said:
if this is indeed the case, this is excellent.
ive been told time and time again that it cant be done like this.
I'll pass this along to an editor I know and see what happens.
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Rippie,

You can indeed manually adjust the Aux1 time code within FCP. I'd have brought that up earlier except that it still has to be done clip-by-clip.

I'm also not certain if that is saved in the meta of the source file, so I don't know if that new TC will follow outside of FCP (for instance, for the previously-linked third party program that can batch-merge).
 
C2V said:
Rippie,

You can indeed manually adjust the Aux1 time code within FCP. I'd have brought that up earlier except that it still has to be done clip-by-clip.

I'm also not certain if that is saved in the meta of the source file, so I don't know if that new TC will follow outside of FCP (for instance, for the previously-linked third party program that can batch-merge).
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I did know and assume you had to do it clip by clip.
Im not expecting miracles just hitting 1 button and boom 200 clips are done.

This aux1 item seems to be exactly to a tee what I was looking for.

Its odd though, that over and over people have said it just cant be done.
that you HAD to do it manually with the waveform and visual clap.

Im very interested in trying this out.

It would be wonderful if it could go find the audio file automatically and figure
out which one to import but
I see no issues if the post guy can see the slate's scene and take number

see my wav called S01T01 and highlight it and move on.


I guess the only naive question i have is.. if you do this for 1 video/1 audio
what happens to that first clip when you bring the second one in and change the aux timecode to something different.
Does the original clip go flying to some other part of the timeline? or?

Glad the conversation continued
 
Rippie said:
I guess the only naive question i have is.. if you do this for 1 video/1 audio
what happens to that first clip when you bring the second one in and change the aux timecode to something different.
Does the original clip go flying to some other part of the timeline? or?

Glad the conversation continued
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It only changes an auxiliary stream of TC... the original source TC is left intact and it should not change anything in the time line.

I'm glad it continued, too. And I apologize for leaving out this piece of information earlier. Silly me, I start thinking non-sync sound and I assume "no TC."

And then I re-read your OP, and noticed that you specifically mentioned TC slate/audio with no lock to camera.
 
I have a meeting later today with the editor for a Ghost hunter style show coming up this friday.

Normal style cameras for interviews..etc
but for most of it, its in 100% total darkness (yea that almost will be fun)
using multiple consumer grade cameras for the "night vision" stuff.

So if this workflow will work it will be way less distracting having the camera point to the slate hanging on my bag rather than do the whole "clap the sticks" thing everytime
a camera stops and restarts.
 
just as you guys said, timecode aux 1 worked flawlessly.

Whats nice is it worked so well and smooth that they arent concerned with me
even hooking up to the bigger cameras either now, which will be nice to be
self contained.
 
If re-capture the original video files later at, say a higher bit rate, are the video tracks of the merged clips updated?
 
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