Miguel Lombana |
December 26th, 2005 01:49 AM |
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Originally Posted by Evan Fisher
I'm prepping to shoot a documentary and I keep reading about nightmare issues synching the timecode on multiple XL2s. I need to synch 2 XL2s and a DAT using Time of Day. Is this possible?
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The xl's will sync perfectly with one caveat, slate the cams! I just shot a 2 and 3 cam xl2 shoot about 1 month ago and found the free-run timecode really works but not great. I found that after each power off the cams drifted a little to as much as 2 seconds by the end of the 2nd day.
Someone here suggested to shoot the viewfinder of one cam with the other so that you know the offset between their timecodes, easier way just fire off a flash.
Now the DAT is a different animal all together, but this one is easy to overcome... when I've slated in the past for audio, I've used my cellphone as the marker. Since it's a clamshell design I can shut it near the mics of all cams and then just zoom into the audio timeline in post, find the waveform and sync it all together.
Don't expect a nightmare, you just have to work on it a little but it will work just fine.
ML
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