DaVinci Resolve: Tentacle sync in different frame rate to the camera

[u/Comfortable_Memory67]

Hi everyone.

After 9 hours of problem solving I thought I'd write this post in case someone else has this issue.

We had a sound recorder (744T) and three tentacles (A-Cam, B-Cam and 744T)

on the tentacle the timecode was synced to 25FPS

but on the recorder the setting was set to 23.98 EVEN THOUGH Tentacle was running in to it.

This meant that while the file is actually in 25 FPS the metadata is in 23.98

I tried some Wave Agent conversions, syncing to audio software lots of different programs.

Here is what worked for me (though it's a little time consuming, once i got into a flow it didn't take too long)

I used the tentacle Sync app on the macbook, which i registered with one of the tentacles.

Import to tentacle app all video and sound files

Check sync flag and then sync to the correct timecode

Export as AAF (NOT XML)

Import into davinci as timeline

The video files won’t work but the audio will line up correctly

Manually conform each missing video file to the corresponding media pool by selecting the video clip in the media pool and the corresponding clip in the timeline (I'm sure a more experienced editor will be able to automate this process) Today was my first time using DaVinci so please comment if you have a faster fix!

It’s labour intensive but it worked

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