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BPM and Picture: How Editors Cut to Music Without Losing Their Mind
Covers the practical mechanics of cutting picture to a musical tempo -- including how to calculate frame-accurate beat intervals, how to use the BPM Sync Tool to pre-calculate cut points, and when cutting to music serves the scene versus when it works against it.
Timecode Drift: Why Your Audio and Picture Fall Out of Sync Over a Long Recording
Every timecode generator uses a crystal oscillator with a small frequency tolerance measured in parts per million. Over a long recording day, that tolerance accumulates into real frames of drift between your audio and picture. Here is the math and the on-set fix.
Sample Rates in Film and Audio Post: 48kHz vs. 96kHz and When Higher Actually Matters
Covers the Nyquist theorem in plain language, why broadcast requires 48kHz, when 96kHz or 192kHz actually matters and when it's placebo, and the storage implications of each choice for film and television audio.