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Syncing DV to DAT

Contributed by Glen Berry

Glen Berry is an award winning filmmaker and the Editor of film underground. Berry has written for Moviemaker magazine and FilmFestivals.com

Is it true that digital video(Canon XL-1 Mini DV) runs at a different speed than DAT recordings, making the task of synching up the sound to the video very difficult? And if so, any suggestions on doing this?

The most important thing to remember is that the " speed" (sample or frame rate) of your audio recording device is unimportant as long as it is constant (crystal or electronically controlled). If you're recording a shot that is 5 seconds long in real time, it will be five seconds long on video and five seconds long on your DAT, so you can sync it.

Where you run into problems is if you change the relationships between pix and sound when digitizing, compressing, transferring or editing.

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