Posted by carlmart on 10/29/06 02:53

Richard Crowley wrote:

> Yes, people shoot double-system without timecode
> (or even without marks) and successfully sync it to
> the picture in modern NLE post-produciton. Digital
> equipment which depends on even cheap, mass-
> market crystals makes it more likely that picture and
> sound will be reasonably close even after 10-15
> minutes, etc. Certainly better than back in the bad
> old days of reel-to-reel analog recording.

Indeed. No doubt we now have a lot of things we didn't have in the old
times. And they are getting better!

That's why I was proposing this methodology. A way to do things better
that is not as difficult as it recently was.

With modern machines you can keep sync with an error of +/- 1 frame
every 30 minutes or better, which you can easily correct in editing. As
nobody uses 30-minutes shots, then you will always be in sync.

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