On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 22:13 -0500, plutek wrote: > during shooting. we were going to feed the studio64-xtc LTC to both the > cameras and ardour, but had trouble locking cameras to that code -- i > actually think this may have been a problem with the feed from my end, > but we didn't have time to debug it. we ended up feeding > camera-generated LTC into ardour in realtime while shooting. what do you think ardour is going to do with timecode during recording? i just want to make sure that you're not thinking you could slave to it. you should never record while slaved to a non-sample-accurate clock source, and LTC is absolutely not sample accurate. slaving to timecode is useful during playback, not during recording. this is true of not just ardour, but everything else. if you want video/audio sync during recording, you need to use blackburst or some equivalent to provide a single clock source to the video and audio gear. this is actually preferable during playback too, but most people don't have the equipment for this. as was noted earlier, with digital audio, there are alternatives to using timecode anyway.
