Posted by Stan Brown on 10/22/05 15:28

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 04:36:14 +0100 from P Pron
<paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk>:
> jonnydepp wrote:
> || On tv the other day, Nick Park was being interviewed and it
> || mentioned that he normally films at 25fps (this may or may not be
> || true for his latest film)
> ||
> || So actually in this case, PAL would be audio pitch perfect.
> ||
> || There are plug-ins for ProTools which give normal pitch to sped up
> || audio anyway so I'm sure this is probably used for 24fps films to
> || PAL.
> ||
> Sadly, I've only seen this happen on a few filmed operas and classical
> concerts, where the specialist audience could be relied upon to complain
> about pitch discrepancies. The rest of us aren't deemed clever enough to
> notice the difference....

WHAT pitch discrepancies? I hear people talking about "half a tone
flat" and whatever, but I don't see how that can be. If you speed up
or slow down the whole soundtrack by 4%, every single note will be
raised or lowered in pitch by the same amount. The whole thing will
be in a slightly different key, but there won't be seemingly wrong
notes (sharps or flats) within it, as far as I can understand it.

How many people have absolute pitch, where they can tell that a song
they learned in D is being played in D sharp or D flat? And even if
they can accurately identify it, does it actually bother them, the
way it would if individual notes were actually off key from the rest?

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