The DualEyes/pluraleyes plan didnt seem to stop the editor jumping in and editing the footage prior to the vital audio re-conform.  And erasing TC meta with an Adobe Compressor batch conversion… So both our primary sync method and backup sync method seemed to have been overturned.

Ami O’connor (Krafthaus) worked some magic and relinked the edit to original pics and conformed these to good audio via the time code road (using QTchange) and we were back in business. I gather that only to a very limited extent was Dueleyes/Pluraleyes used.  Perhaps to micro-align the loose-TC aligned clips with good audio within FCP timeline itself.

The moral of the story is: remember to sync up the good audio to the pics by batch, prior to beginning editing.  Im looking forward to trying this production path again.  Its a shame there was a bit of argy bargy, as it would be so nice to think we could get by with just a mono wireless link to camera during the shoot, and to have total confidence in the ability to re-sync later.   Now if only i had a STEREO wireless link….  I would send guide on ‘L’ and TC on ‘R’  – the 552 is well equipped for this routing – and I’d never feel the fear again.   -McGowan.