Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/15/06 13:33

"Doc" wrote ...
>I have three versions of a Disney parade on tape from different vantage
> points made with an 8mm camcorder, later transferred to VHS. I
> recently
> captured them from VCR > Digital8 camcorder passthru > h/d. I find
> that
> when lining them up based on a common audio event at the beginning of
> each,
> they match up for the entire 30 minutes to the point where the
> intricate
> choreographed drum cadences match. I would have thought this shouldn't
> be
> the case, though it certainly makes editing a lot simpler.
>
> This parade ran to a sound track - I assume digital - as well as the
> live
> drummers so it was exactly the same every time, but shouldn't there be
> some
> drift because they were recorded and then duped on consumer analog
> gear?
> Does running it through the digital camcorder have any bearing on this
> or is
> this just a fluke?

No, dubbing will NOT change the sync.
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