[MacDV] Emergency Query on MetaData??!!

[Lanny Cotler]

I do not use iMovie, so I can't help you.

Time Stamp sync'ing is just an idea I had that would allow two wild 
cameras shooting around a location to get close (not frame accurate 
by any means) to place related scenes (i.e., that were shot at the 
same moment in time) to be looked at together in post. Of course, if 
the cameras clock-time weren't sync'd up prior to shooting, you'd 
have to use an off-set to relate the shots.

Your question should more properly be handled in a thread of its own.

good luck,

Lanny

>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
>
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