• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Syncing audio for documentary

  Posted by Daniel Neutzsky-wulff on December 6, 2012 at 12:53 am

  Hi,

  I am in the early stages of editing a documentary.

  The sound which was recorded externally has this file structure:

  001T01_1.WAV
  001T01_2.WAV
  001T01_3.WAV
  001T01_4.WAV

  001T02_1.WAV
  001T02_2.WAV
  001T02_3.WAV
  001T02_4.WAV

  And so forth…

  All of these files are in the same folder corresponding to a specific date. When I drag the files to my timeline, they all end up on a single track.

  Is there a way of mapping the audio so it automatically places a soundfile on each audio track in the timeline?

  Like so:

  V1: MOV
  A1: 001T01
  A2: 001T02
  A3: 001T03
  A4: 001T04

  Instead of:

  V1: MOV
  A1: 001T01 001T02 001T03 001T04

  The idea is to line everything up, so I can run it through PluralEyes afterwards. If anyone knows of a simpler and more efficient way of syncing sound for a documentary with this file structure, please let me know.

  Regards,
  Daniel

  Dave Thompson replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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• 

  Daniel Neutzsky-wulff

  December 6, 2012 at 5:28 pm

  No?
• 

  Kevin Monahan

  December 6, 2012 at 8:26 pm

  Yes, there is: the merge clips function. Synchronizing audio and video with Merge Clips (CS5.5 and later).

  Merge clips in the Project panel prior to overwriting them into the sequence. That’s it!

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  Daniel Neutzsky-wulff

  December 8, 2012 at 12:37 am

  Let me start over:

  I have ALOT of video footage shot on DSLR. B-roll and interviews.
  Approximately 11 days of shooting arranged into folders corresponding to a specific date.

  Example:
  EHF_101112_DK/
  EHF_101112_DK_001.MOV
  EHF_101112_DK_002.MOV
  EHF_101112_DK_003.MOV
  EHF_101112_DK_004.MOV
  Etc.

  I also have ALOT of audio recorded externally, ALSO arranged into folders corresponding to a certain date.

  Example:

  101112/
  001T01_1.WAV
  001T01_2.WAV
  001T01_3.WAV
  001T01_4.WAV
  001T02_1.WAV
  001T02_2.WAV
  001T02_3.WAV
  001T02_4.WAV

  How do I go about the process of syncing the footage and merging the files into sorted folders? I am on Windows 8 using Premiere Pro CS6.

  What is the typical workflow?

  Please help!
• 

  Dave Thompson

  December 9, 2012 at 3:31 am

  I get the idea you’re hoping there’s an automatic way to do this. I’m not an expert, but I’ve just finished a similar (although smaller) project and was asking similar questions when I started.

  So, to the best of my knowledge, there’s no way to make sequences based on file or folder name, automatic or otherwise.

  Merging is the usual way of doing it, like Kevin said. Here’s a video that deals with sound and DSLR footage: https://vimeo.com/45470345

  I don’t think there’s a way of doing it that doesn’t involve some grunt work, but if others have better solutions, hopefully they’ll add them too.

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