Hello, Helpful People
Another adventure in format mismatches.
So, my location sound finally got off DAT, thank goodness, and moved over to a hard drive based system -- the Cantar.
The Cantar is generating very helpful logs for us. However, none of the timecode in the the logs matches the actual timecode on the files. The gap in timecode seems to vary. The Cantar puts the first slate 54:05 from the timecode I am getting on the imported file. The second slate is off by 53:27. The third slate is off by 1:00:04.
Now, according to the Cantar, it recorded audio at 29.97. But FCP is importing the files at 30 fps. I don't see a way to change FCP's import settings.
Moreover, a straight drop/non-drop discrepancy ought drift consistently. This is off by more, then less, then more.
Anybody have any experience with this? Thoughts? Wild theories?
Thanks so much!