Video 23.98, Audio 29.97

[Phil Maker]

My sound mixer is recording sound off camera at 29.97. I'm shooting in 1080i 24pa. How will the sound and picture be synched? I read that you have to edit it all on a 29.97 timeline, but does that mean it's playing my 24p footage at 29.97? I'm a little confused about how this works. I don't want my 24p footage to play back at 29.97, that would defeat the purpose of shooting in 24p. And what about when I need to blow the movie up to film?

 

[bigbossbmb]

sound mixers typically record at 48khz or 44.1khz, not in terms of frames... you'll be fine.

if you are shooting 24pA, then you'll remove the pulldown and edit on a 23.98 timeline, not 29.97. the length of the clips won't change and the audio will remain in sync.

 

[Phil Maker]

Thanks. I'm stuck editing on a 29.97 timeline because that's what the easy set up was set as when I brought my clips into the NLE. Unless there's some way around it?