Synching methods

[danlee]

I went to the "Audio Files Demystified" seminar on Sat 3rd Sept, and was confused as to how the actual synching process would be sped up, I know its faster than having to digitise a DAT, that goes without saying,but actually physically synching picture to sound seems like a more convoluted process.
I'm coming from an Avid background, maybe my synching method is wrong (I believe it is the fastest way to synch, but I am more than willing to be proven wrong) which is basically using one audio file (ie. DAT) laying it down in a sequence with the video and cutting out extra audio (as a general rule the sound recordist usually records more audio than the camera shoots vision) to synch the visual clap to the audio clap and having a digital slate cuts that time down even more. Now it makes sense to me that if you only have to work in one window (record monitor) and don't have to either go back to the bin to grab another chunk of audio or go back to the source monitor to cut a piece of audio into the sequence you're saving yourself roughly 5 sec per slate.
If anyone has any ideas, criticisms or questions I'd be glad to hear them.

[Peter]

Hi Dan,

I don't do a lot of syncing myself anymore, but I was talking to my assistant Emma about this situation. Obviously there are a number of different methods, and yours sounds pretty good. I understand that when a sound recordist brings in their material on disk that all the takes come in seperately, making the syncing process time consuming. What I would suggest is to option select all the files and drag them into the record monitor to create an audio sequence, which could then be used the same way as a DAT audio file that has been digitised.

As I say, everyone has their individual methods, but try that and see if that makes any sense to you.

Kind Regards,

Pete.