[daveytinners]

Hi there,

I've been put on the spot a little here and am in need of help pretty sharpish.
I've just been put on a session tomorrow that involves recording some music for a film. We're mainly a tracking studio, and to be honest I don't know why something like this hasn't ever appeared before but it hasn't. So needless to say after recording band after band during my time here, being asked to do this has caught me off guard slightly.

Obviously the recording aspect is fine. The thing that I'm concerned about is the time code and syncing aspects which I've never ever touched on before.
Apparently the video will be playing in protools and the musicians will be cued by the video. On cue the recordings will occur at specific time points throughout the duration of the film (I guess that this is normal, 101 stuff).

I've just got to track a few violins and such, then export the files as their individual comped edits along with a mon mix tracked at the same time.
I've done a tad of video using pro tools before, but nothing that was in anyway serious, it's just literally the file formats and exporting that I'm concerned with. I understand that these files will need to appear in the exact same places within a different project when moved on to the next stage of the production. Making that happen is something I have no idea about. I'm a total newbie at this end of things.

So considering what I've told you what will I need to be doing. I'm running PTHD 8. I've got PTLE 8 at home so I can have a practice run. The studio and myself also have logic pro though it isn't my preferred sequencer.

Any help would be massively appreciated. The session is in about 12 hours and most of that consists of sleeping. As a smart person would've done, I did actually turn it down, but no one else was available to do it either so unfortunately I've been thrown in at the deep end.

Dave.