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5.43 AUDIO OUT TIMING

Menu Position MENU  2  Audio Output Timing

What it Does Delays the audio monitoring through the headphone jack a
fraction of a second to match the video delay

Recommended Setting Live

This feature can come in handy when you’re shooting music videos and
your actor / actress is lip syncing to a pre-recorded track. (You know, like
this guy: http://bit.ly/1xCsSgP :-) ) Depending on how your audio is fed to
the camera and to your actors, there's the possibility of a slight time shift
between the audio you're hearing and what's going on in the scene. Because
it has to go through the A77 II's video processor first, the image you see in
the camera's viewfinder or LCD is slightly delayed from real time. If the
audio is delayed the same amount, everything's fine, as the audio and video
will be in sync with each other.

So this setting simply delays the audio by the same amount that the video is
being delayed. Not by much but in certain situations it can be a handy
thing.