A followup question. I have been reading posts on MacDV for quiet some time. I learn a lot and is quiet enjoyable. I use iMovie a bunch and usually use two cameras for shoots I do. One is a Sony VX2000 and the other is a DSR250. I'm always editing between the two cameras and use audio to sync by. I am pretty good with audio. However, I do not know how to use time stamping or sync the time on my cameras to make it easier for me. Particularly when there is a lot of music involved with close-up shots from the two different cameras. I painstakingly make sure the video movements (lip and speech patterns) are the same when I edit from one clip to another from the different cameras. I am pretty good with this too but it takes a lot of tedious frame by frame editing and time. Is there a way to do time stamping or capture syncing with iMovie. Like I said, I am a musician, pretty good with audio (use some other app's to help me enhance audio) and am pretty good with iMovie. After about 3 years using iMovie I am getting ready to graduate to Final Cut Express. Is it easier to do in FC Express? Any pointers, tips, tutorials, suggested reading, books, online articles appreciated. Thanks a bunch!!!! -Chuck Kay On Jan 17, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Lanny Cotler wrote: > Indeed it does help, Coli. I thought about iMovie's ability to > "see" the "temporal metadata" that is on the tape. I just hope > there's a way to do it in FCP. > > Most of the footage from the two cameras does NOT have to be > sync'd, as they're independent to pick and choose amongst. But w/o > sound (a silly error), it will be hard to identify and sync up the > footage from each camera that I may want to cut between. I wonder > why TIME STAMPing isn't used more for sync ups... > > Thanks, > > Lanny > >> I've been in a similar situation before, but used the DV timecode >> and iMovie (which was all I had available) to sync footage from >> three independent cameras. I had available the hr/min/sec/frame on >> each clip and the "capture" (=shooting not import) time of the >> start of each clip as hr/min/sec. >> >> Unless you synced the time on the cameras before you started there >> will be a difference. Once you identify a point in time shot >> simultaneously from both cameras you can use the >> "capture" (=shooting) time suitably adjusted to align clips >> roughly, and if it looks OK it will do. If not, shift it by up to >> a second's worth of frames in one direction or the other and >> preview again. >> >> Pity about the sound missing, it helps a lot, although sometimes >> it can still look wrong even when you know it must be right. >> >> Sorry can't help with the FCP question, but I hope this helps. >> >> Coli McDonald