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Syncing comped playlists to video


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So, the audio and video department of our facility has now embarked on (editing wise) a fairly challenging production. Our boss wants to shoot an in-studio video of a vocalist tracking, and then using Logic's comping feature, take the best elements of each take and turn it into one seamless audio file and sync that file to the recorded video. Obviously the audio side of that is very easy as the functionality is built into Logic, but the challenge comes in syncing the final comp to video. We tend to do very meticulous comping, for example we might take a single word from take 20 and then take the next word from take 6, taking the absolute best elements of each. In this scenario finding the video that matches the audio would be an absolute nightmare for the editor, but this is the way our boss wants the project done so we don't have much choice  :cry: .

 

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience working on similar projects and what can be done to simplify the process for our video editors. So far the best solution I can think of is using an external sound device like the Zoom F6 to output timecode and audio directly into the camera, and then using the left and right outputs, send that signal into Logic where we can comp the vocal takes. This would at least give the video guy an identical waveform and some sort of timecode to work with, but even then that isn't optimal because we would rather use our nice pre-amps over a sound device.  

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