rec.arts.movies.production.sound

Does your music ever need to go back to a studio mastrer multi-track for
re-mixing? Better be certain that you use a sync reference and the
timne-code from the master is this will be the case.

D.

"Noah Timan" wrote in message
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> On Oct 5, 10:09 pm, "Arnold F." wrote:
>> Starting a job with about a dozen musical numbers for playback on
>> set. I'm re-recording the music with timecode that will be sent to
>> the slate (music sent to phonaks for artists). Is there a rule-of-
>> thumb for how the timecode should be? I was thinking of separating
>> the songs by minutes; first song starts at one minute, second song
>> starts at 5 minutes, etc., or something along those lines. I was also
>> wondering if each song shouldn't have some discrete user bits. Sound
>> right?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> A.
>
> Hey Arnold,
>
> The key is to make sure there is no duplicate time code on any of the
> songs. Sounds like you've got that covered. An approach that I
> suspect post might appreciate would be to number each song with a
> different hour (ie first song starts at 01:00:00:00, second song
> starts at 02:00:00:00, etc -- that would allow them to easily identify
> the track without having to whip out a calculator when they get to the
> 11th song).
>
> As far as the user bits are concerned, practice tells me that no one
> ever uses the user bits for anything. RAMPS members might have
> experiences that prove me wrong, but I have seen zero evidence that
> anyone really processes that data. About eleven or twelve years ago I
> boomed for a guy who ingeniously found a way to send live code through
> the user bits (I can't remember any more how he did it) for recording/
> playback situations in the same take (it wasn't a file at that point
> as it was 1/4" tape), but beyond that, I don't think anyone ever uses
> the function. It's a noble attempt, but I think it's a tree that
> falls in the empty forest.
>
> nvt
>