Please forgive me if this has been discussed before, but I can’t find anything about it.
We always write to a video track which has a 2 second “2-pop” for reference at the beginning. In Logic you can set the video start to 59:58:00 and the audio at 1:00:00:00, so the video starts exactly 2 seconds after the audio, no matter what the tempo is.
In Nuendo I can “set timecode at cursor” to 59:58:00 at then drag the movie start to that spot, then start the audio at 00:00:00:00, and that works - as long as I don’t change the tempo. If I change the tempo the audio moves to a different start point on the smpte line. Is there a way to lock both the video and audio to smpte start positions? If not, that seems like a major omission in a program like this.
The workaround for us has been to set a tempo track that starts at 120 BPM for exactly one 4/4 measure (ie one measure = 4 beats = 2 seconds exactly), then change to the tempo we need. But this is not really a good solution, since any pre-roll with click will have the wrong tempo, which makes it hard to start playing on the downbeat.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.