Recording audio for a short film ideas.

Im gonna record the audio for a shortfilm in a month and im looking for options for doing this, i want to record directly into my hard drive and i thougth to use garageband 08 for that, but its important that in the postproduction everything syncs perfectly (audio and video) so i was wondering if logic or garageband recorded sound at 29.97 fps, or any software from apple, i have quicktime pro and logic studio (but im very new in logic so thats why i was thinking to use something much more simple like garageband or qucktime).
im gonna use the Usb8 from alesis to record the audio to the computer.
Any ideas please??
thanks a lot.

use garage band, use Logic, or whatever you like. As long as you're recording audio separately from the video, you'll need to sync it later. recording to the camera eliminates this step (ideally) by syncing the video/audio on the fly.
There is a more complicated and accurate way of doing this, but it sounds like this might work for you:
If you're gonna use your computer to record, make sure you slate each take. Use one of those fancy-pants clacker-slates just like the big hollywood directors. Snap it before each take and use that for sync.

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