Filming

[notb665]

On films and TV programmes and stuff, sometimes the audio from the next scene will sound before it cuts to that scene. Why does it do this? Sometimes it confuses me. I think "Who is talking?", then it goes to the next scene.

Do you know what I mean? Why does it do this? There must be a reason.

 

[breezer]

its out of sync.

in other words the sound and video are not perfectly aligned

 

[kendor]

probably bad editing although on occasion it's done for effect.

 

[Steve]

its out of sync.

in other words the sound and video are not perfectly aligned

noooo, i know what notb665 is talking about here. The sounds align with the people moving (lips move in time with speech), but at the end of a scene, just before (half a second to one second) the picture changes, the sound changes to the next scene first.

Though i have been watching Sky on occasions when the sound and video do get out of sync.

 

[markie]

your getting old, you have great hearing but bad eyes or may be bad editing

 

[notb665]

But I have noticed it far too many times for it to be out of sync or bad editing.

I thought it might be so that you lock on to what is happening next, so the whole scene is not just a shock. If the video was first it would be weird as people would just be standing about.

I dunno though.

 

[David E]

What annoies me is if I'm working on my PC and watching say BBC1 as a 3" square window on top of an Excel/Word etc window, and the wife is watching the same program in the next door room on digital they are really out of sync and you get a delay of a couple of seconds between hearing one then the other

 

[kendor]

its out of sync.

in other words the sound and video are not perfectly aligned

noooo, i know what notb665 is talking about here. The sounds align with the people moving (lips move in time with speech), but at the end of a scene, just before (half a second to one second) the picture changes, the sound changes to the next scene first.

Though i have been watching Sky on occasions when the sound and video do get out of sync.

does happen with sky occasionally due to technical reasons, there is an approx 2 second gap from the ouput being transmitted and then received back from the satellite sometimes audio and video sources get mixed up and one will lag the other as the wrong source has been selected, easily done if you saw the size of the matrices for selecting sources.
to notice the difference watch BBC1 on a satellite digibox at the same time using a terrestial aerial fed tv watching the same channel and you'll see that the satellite feed lags the terrestial feed. Is that an echo?

 

[notb665]

I think I haven't explained myself properly: it's all perfectly in sync, as all the lips move correctly.

It is just that the audio of the clip starts before the video does. So a little bit of sound from clip 2 is over the end of clip 1.

It happens all the time!

 

[markie]

its the same when you watch a football match on tv with the sound down and you have the radio on for the commentary the radio is a sec a head

 

[notb665]

Nothing is out of sync or delayed. All the lips and stuff move in sync, the last bit of the last scene is silent to account for it.

I am convinced it is something arty/psychological.

 

[kendor]

I think I haven't explained myself properly: it's all perfectly in sync, as all the lips move correctly.

It is just that the audio of the clip starts before the video does. So a little bit of sound from clip 2 is over the end of clip 1.

It happens all the time!

that's normally done for effect, leading you into the next scene, just an old tool for keeping the attention span going.

 

[notb665]

Thank you Kendor! How do know this?

 

[kendor]

Thank you Kendor! How do know this?

23 years in the television industry

 

[notb665]

Wow thank you.