When converting the soundtrack from a feature from 24fps to the 25fps PAL version for Broadcast I've encountered a strange phenomenon in ProTools.
When using the 'old digirack plug-in' Time Compression/Expansion the speed-up works fine, sounds fair and the most important, it's sync.
When using the recent 'TimeShift' the sound is crap and the file is not sync, although I'm using the same values.
Today I had for example a file with the exact lenght of 00:21:35:23
Speeded it up to 25fps with TCE gave me a lenght of 00:20:44:02
Speeded it up to 25fps with TS gave me a lenght of 00:20:46:01
besides the inaccuracy of the timing the TS sounds like crap with lot's of transient artefact's. Although I used the same settings for the Transient Fields as Digi does in its Post Production presets for Time Shift
I've also experimented with Speed from SoundToys. This one gave me the same length as TS (00:20:46:01) but the quality of the audio signal is terrible... it sounds like a verry bad compressed MP3.
When I use a TC-calculator the conversion of a 24fps to 25fps of this length gives me 00:20:44:03 as a result
I'm getting a bit confused...
Are there any alternatives ? What do you think fellow-slutz? Is it a mistake or am I not the only one who want to take out the pro in the naming of this thing that drives me nuts? How are you guys doing it?
Kind regards from Belgium
Pedro