Did a couple hours of dual-system interviews this weekend with the H4 and ran into the sync problems others have noted in the past - I got a steady drift of ~2 frames/minute across the board (24bit/96khz).

It wasn't a big deal but did affect workflow as I was under a pretty tight deadline. Normally I'd just merge the audio & video into a new clip (using FCP) but that wouldn't work here. I basically had to create a new sequence for each clip, sync the slate, then split the audio every minute and shift the remaining audio 2 frames forward.

This meant I had to edit with nested sequences which is a little more cumbersome - you have to drag from the project window to the viewer so the sequence doesn't open in a new tab, and you can't see audio waveforms on the nested clips.

With more time I think the workflow is to pre-calculate the exact drift rate, stretch the audio file by the correct percentage, and then use merge clips. I'm hoping this isn't an issue with the new H4n.

The Sony PCM-D50 does have an optional XLR input (powered).. but the option is not cheap... but you do get great results from either the XLR inputs or the builtin mikes...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...c_Adapter.html

I started another thread on this, but I though you audio gurus would like to hear and comment on this test using the Beachtek DXA-4 adapter. I uploaded this simple test.

http://www.dvinfo.net/media/canon/5d2/soundtest.mp3

Thoughts.

double post, this one erased...

Yeah the adapter is like $500 I looked at it but figured the mixpre preamps would be better