ORIGINAL: Geokauf

ORIGINAL: jaz@jackzucker.com

i'm syncing audio and video.

Hi,

That's what I thought. Get a copy of Vegas Studio/DVD (about $140.00), you can download it (there's a downloadable demo too). Vegas is the right tool for the job and you don't need the full-blown version. However, the full-blown version has even better snapping tools, is worth the price.

GK

I have Adobe premiere Pro CS3. I don't need or want Vegas and it's not the right tool for the job. I record video direct to PC over firewire and audio simultaneously into sonar. I then import the video into sonar and sync it up. It's a good workflow. This has nothing to do with the issue though.

ORIGINAL: Geokauf

I have Adobe premiere Pro CS3.

if you have Premiere then use that. You do not get it. If it is such a "good workflow" (whatever that word means) then why are you here instead of editing your video?

GK

Because premiere is not where you edit audio. Duh. Thanks for the lecture.

ORIGINAL: jaz@jackzucker.com

why is it that whenever you ask a question here, folks feel the need to show that you don't know what you're doing and shouldnt' be trying to do what it is you are asking about?

Being Taliban is a state of mind.

ORIGINAL: brundlefly

why is it that whenever you ask a question here, folks feel the need to show that you don't know what you're doing and shouldnt' be trying to do what it is you are asking about?

I asked exactly the same question in another thread, recently. Got no takers.

I'd like to help, but I still don't have a clear picture of how big the error is in the split location. Can you quantify that in ticks or samples at a given sample rate and BPM? As I said, my splits seem to be spot on.

I'll have to take a look and see how many ticks it is off. For my purposes, it proves to be a non-factor. My workflow is that I'm recording audio through sonar and video through Adobe OnLocation Capture simultaneously. I then import the Video (including it's audio track) into Sonar. Then I sync the audio tracks up by finding the beginning of a particular wave form attack that I generate by "twacking" the strings prior to doing a take. This works very well and even with the tracking error, there is no discernable tracking problem between the video and audio so the time factor must be pretty minimal.

ORIGINAL: brundlefly

If you're happy with it, that's all that matters.

I'd still like to know what's up with it. For my purposes of syncing audio and video, the granularity is not important but if I were synching up an overdub I'd probably be more anal about it. In my case, the sonar audio track REPLACES the video's audio track so as long as the thing doesn't look like a hong-kong horror movie dub it's ok.