In double system shooting with certain cameras, a tone feed into a magnetic tape recorder at the same time that a light in the camera exposes a few frames of film. The fogged section is later aligned with the beep tone to achieve synchronization of the sound to the picture.
SYNC BEEP (SYNC TONE)
Meaning of SYNC BEEP (SYNC TONE) in English
Film and video English vocabulary. Английский словарь фильмов и видео. 2012