On May 25, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Gareth Henderson wrote: > On 25/5/06 12:01, "Jonathan Perl" <jon.perl@verizon.net> wrote: > >>> Will PitchNTime work well in this instance? >>> We shot a concert with two cameras and recorded 24 track audio >>> with a MACKIE HDR 24/96. Big mistake. >>> Big technical glitch with audio: somehow all 24 tracks are >>> slightly sped up. So now we have to slow down the wav, files >>> to match the video Quicktime files. Yikes. It's nearly 3 hours >>> of 24 track audio. >>> Is this a job for Pitch'n'Time? > > I have the same problem every year. I use an Alesis HD24 to record > my annual > concert then post mix to make a DVD. The mixed files are always very > slightly out of time (no where near enough to be sample rate > settings, more > like clock differences - God I wish the master video deck took word > clock!!) > I solve it by getting one song from the audio mix, extracting > the audio > from the QT movie, defining EXACTLY the same start and end point in > both > files, checking the number of samples difference and them using > time machine > to change the mixed audio file to match the number of samples in > the QT > audio file. This gives me a percentage time stretch figure in the Time > Machine that I then use for all the songs. > Usually I try the value on a couple of tracks first and make > sure they > sync up well in FCP and sometimes the value needs a tiny bit of manual > tweaking, but once I'm happy with one, it always works on the others. > Annoying isn't it!? > Gareth > Why do you not record with time code from the video deck going to the recorder, and resolving all to video sync? This is the only way it will truly work. -Evan Benjamin ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details