Hello there, first post on this site, nice to meet you all.
I'm coming to you all today with a more software editing focused question around syncing up audio taken from 8/s8 magnetic stripes to converted footage. To explain further, I work at a private digitization house, where we run our footage through a Retroscan, which comes out at 18fps as standard. Our current solution for recording sound (but we are exploring others at the minute) is to run the reel through a Goko Recording Editor [RM8008] and then attempt to sync these two files up in Post. The issue arises in that the audio timing seems to drift over time, which I have come to understand is a common issue when working with this type of sound. We have tried to alleviate this by running the audio at 108% speed in post (which helps to line it up) and by cutting and moving frames at every cut/splice that appears on the footage, which actually does tend to work fairly well, but the issue becomes more apparent on half hour reels with dozens and dozens of said cuts or conversely, extended cuts where drift has time to become noticeable.
While we do have a workaround admittedly, though it takes a lot of manual time, I suppose my question is whether anyone has any suggestions for the editing that might help? Perhaps a golden percentage speed we just haven't landed on or an automatic tool within the system we haven't spotted? For reference the company mostly makes use of DaVinci Resolve, but also has access to a copy or two of Premiere, but any other suggestions for software's useful for retiming the audio would be appreciated.
Any other suggestions for how best to record sound would be appreciated, we are looking at a couple options for simultaneous recording to see if that's the ticket for syncing things up, but the sound is a weak spot for us so anything will be helpful.
I'm coming to you all today with a more software editing focused question around syncing up audio taken from 8/s8 magnetic stripes to converted footage. To explain further, I work at a private digitization house, where we run our footage through a Retroscan, which comes out at 18fps as standard. Our current solution for recording sound (but we are exploring others at the minute) is to run the reel through a Goko Recording Editor [RM8008] and then attempt to sync these two files up in Post. The issue arises in that the audio timing seems to drift over time, which I have come to understand is a common issue when working with this type of sound. We have tried to alleviate this by running the audio at 108% speed in post (which helps to line it up) and by cutting and moving frames at every cut/splice that appears on the footage, which actually does tend to work fairly well, but the issue becomes more apparent on half hour reels with dozens and dozens of said cuts or conversely, extended cuts where drift has time to become noticeable.
While we do have a workaround admittedly, though it takes a lot of manual time, I suppose my question is whether anyone has any suggestions for the editing that might help? Perhaps a golden percentage speed we just haven't landed on or an automatic tool within the system we haven't spotted? For reference the company mostly makes use of DaVinci Resolve, but also has access to a copy or two of Premiere, but any other suggestions for software's useful for retiming the audio would be appreciated.
Any other suggestions for how best to record sound would be appreciated, we are looking at a couple options for simultaneous recording to see if that's the ticket for syncing things up, but the sound is a weak spot for us so anything will be helpful.
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