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Vienna Phil NYE Concert

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-01-06 22:25

This post is, I hope, marginally on topic if not by much.

We've been watching the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Eve concert on TV (Great Performances series on NTV). The orchestra plays beautifully and the concert makes great listening and interesting viewing. But it's disconcerting that the sound and picture are out of sync for much of the performance. All is well through Tales from the Vienna Woods. But after that (a little less than half-way through the concert) the orchestra, when the cameras are showing it, is half a beat ahead of the sound, making for some strange visual effects.

I know we're pretty far away from Vienna here in Philadelphia and sound travels slower than light, but, really???

We watched it on a home HDTV set. But I've checked the video on the Great Performances website using my computer. The problem is the same, so it isn't somehow an artifact of my TV's circuitry. Can anyone from the world of electronics or recording engineering explain why this might have happened? Could the picture and sound have been re-synced during editing (I suspect the answer is "yes")? If so, why would it have been released out-of-sync? Someone on the production crew must have noticed it.

This isn't a second or third tier orchestra, and the performance each year gets international attention.

Karl

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