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I'm exchanging email about specs with a video editor who was going to send me materials. He asked me if I needed a "violator" in the video to do my audio work?
What is a violator? Is it a video term for pop syncs?
PS> Tried to Google but different unrelated things come up.
Asked an editor friend of mine and said it's probably sync tones (not just pops) which some production outfits use instead of a pop when a video fades from black (aka first frame is a black frame). The end of a tone is the first frame.
They do this because some amateur audio guys still don't know how 2 pops work and end up starting the audio immediately after the pop. (Because they were instructed that video starts from black.)
