Bouncing to Movie

[cali316]

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone could please help me with an issue I'm having. I've searched the forums and even watched the macprovideo.com Logic / movie tutorial again and still a bit confused.

 

I'm currently scoring an indie film and what's happening is that each time I go to bounce the audio to movie, the audio always comes in late - sound fx, music, etc., are always behind where they should be.

 

I have my session set to begin at bar 1. When I first imported the clip into Logic, the movie start time actually begins at 00:00:02:11.75. Not knowing initially that I could have changed that, I left it alone and started composing. I set up Synchronization so that bar position 1 1 1 1 plays at SMPTE 0:0:0:0.0. Within the session everything plays fine, but upon export everything is completely out of sync. I even tried bouncing to an AIF file and then adding it to the QT movie directly and it's still the same. Frame rate btw was shot at 24 fps which I have setup in the Synch prefs.

 

I'm sure it's something simple but I've spent the past hour trying to figure this out. Any help would really be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

 

PPC G5 / 2.3 Ghz / 3GB Ram / 2 internal, 2 external drives / 10.4.8 / Logic Pro 7.2.3 / Apogee Ensemble

[David Nahmani]

What are your plug-in delay compensation preferences set to?

 

You should try to set them to all (Logic Pro > Preferences > Audio > General) and bounce to a stereo file, then reimport it an line it up with the movie (http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=26551#26551), then export.

 

Also, make sure you're not mixing it with any of the audio in the original movie file: in the last dialog after naming and choosing a location for your movie, deselect the tracks you don't want included in the movie.

[cali316]

Hey David, thanks for the quick reply and here's a quick update...

Initially I had the bounce region set to go from bar 1 to bar 20. I then changed that so that the bounce would begin at the same point the movie clip begins and now everything is in sync.

 

My question though, is it not possible to have a small lead in even though the film doesn't necessarily have one? Even though the clip doesn't start until 00:00:02:11.75, I had a nice, dark pad intro that did a slow fade in before the scene began. My thinking was that the bounced QT file would have this black background with the music playing, leading into the first scene. I think I'm starting to understand that Logic has no way of creating this for you if the film doesn't have it - so essentially when I bounce the audio to movie, the region locaters have to be set exactly to the start and end points of the clip...(?)

 

Thanks again for the help - as always, very much appreciated.

 

I sent you a Myspace request btw - really diggin the tunes. 8)