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What Timecode/Sync Is and Why We Need It
How multiple machines stay locked to the same instant in a recording, and the frame-rate mess that colour television created by accident.
Synchronization means getting two or more independent machines — two multitracks, an audio recorder and a video deck, a DAW and a lighting rig — to run at exactly the same speed and stay locked to the same instant in the material. It started as a film and video post-production problem and migrated into music studios once multitrack recording and MIDI sequencing made “more than one machine running at once” the normal case rather than the exception.
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