munook said:
Whoa...you just blew my mind square out my ass....let's back up....O.K. So I get this video production guy in my town to splice the footage that I want(which is on VHS) together. He then copies this footage to a VHS....I take the freshly spliced VHS put it into a VHS player and hook the VHS player to a television (of course, I assume he could put it on DVD too..if that is the better format, just say so).......O.K. NOW I have my rompler, sequencer, VA synth, module, & sampler making music....how do I connect the VHS/DVD player to the hardware equipment in order to sync up the speed of the music to the speed of the VHS and/or DVD? please by specific and no fly bys because I am learning as I go...thanks
first of all, I'll start by letting you know that this will really be of no use to you. It has really not been of much use to
anybody in the last 8 years. Synching a sequencer to a VHS machine has been obsolete since the time digital video came into place as a standard part of just about every sequencing program. simply having a quicktime video imported into your sequence is not only an
easier way to synch to video, but you have more
versatility and more
control...
what synching to a video in this way will allow you to do is this: you can play your VHS tape and the sequencer will play along with it. The VHS tape will synch the positioning of your sequence. If you have a 2 minute video and you are composing 2 minutes of music to go along with it, you can align the video and sequencer in this way. To start your sequence, you press play on your VCR machine. If you want to play your music from the 1 minute point, then you fast forward your video to the 1 minute point and start it from there.
The video (VHS tape machine) controls the position of the sequencer... not the other way around.
The sequencer is referred to as the "slave" and the VHS machine is referred to as the "master"... the sequencer is "slaved" to the VHS tape machine.
(note: that is the terminology used... I did not make that up myself)
You need to buy a box that creates (writes) this SMPTE time code.
You record that time code to an audio channel of the VHS machine.
You have the audio output of the VHS machine going into another box that
reads the time code.
you go out from that box into your sequencer.
Your sequencer reads the time code and determines from that data where to begin playing your sequence.
the result is the same as if you loaded a piece of digital video into your sequencer... the only difference is that synching to a video tape is a big big hassle and i don't know anybody who has worked that way in the last 10 years... literally.
Synching to video in this way will
not allow you to control the speed of your video.
This will not allow you to synch up speed of your video to the speed of your music. This will only synch the 2 together so they play at the same time.
having a guy splice video together and put it on a VHS tape (or a DVD with time code) will be no different in result than if the video editing guy made the video into a Quigktime video and you loaded it into your sequence and worked with it that way... except, like i said, working with the video as a Quicktime in your sequence will be easier and more accurate (you can easily loop your sequences audio or easily go frame by frame or easily jump around to random points in your sequence... but you cannot do that if you are synching to a VHS tape or DVD.)
Do you understand what I am saying?
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