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I'm working on coming up with a system to manage sync wirelessly over 2 to 3 cameras and 2 or more audio recorders. A little background: I'm traveling around this summer working as the audio department recording music festivals and performances of various genres (mostly folk/etc). The cameras and the audio recorders have the distinct possibility of being spread somewhat far apart, and should be mobile. Currently, the setup I'm looking at would involve sending TC over Wifi from one central, accurate generator to an iDevice attached to each camera/recorder using Movieslate. From my research, this is the least expensive actually workable solution. Pretending for a moment that the above solution works (and I'm open to suggestions otherwise), here's where things break down. Although I'm not necessarily involved with post-production, it is in my job description to make life easiest for the editors. I'd like to be able to take footage from each camera and recorder, throw it in a NLE, and have everything line up via TC regardless of if the clips are contiguous or not. It seems to me like there should be a way to do this, but I haven't found it yet. A verbose explanation of the problem, better than what I can write, can be read here. To reiterate, if I let TC coming from the central generator free run starting at the beginning at the day, all the recorded media from that day will be stamped with a version of "time-of-day". I cannot, however, find a software solution to interpret multiple cameras and audio streams and place them into one timeline based on that time-of-day stamp. What's worked for you? Thanks for the help.