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CS6 Sync and group multiple audio tracks with video
The latest project I have consists of video clips with a guide audio track and six channels of separately recorded sound. What I am trying to achieve is to sync and group all the audio tracks with their respective clips, so that I can edit picture and sound easily, choosing whichever channel is best suited.
One workflow that appears to do this from a functional perspective, is to use plural eyes to sync one video clip with it’s 6 audio tracks, then use the synced sequence as a nested sequence. This in effect, means that the clips I use on the main sequence are in fact nested sequences of the individual synced and grouped clips.
Thus I have effectively a single clip to edit with with a single audio track, but I can drill into the clip (which is a nested sequence) and select the audio mix that is right for the clip. Hope I have explained that.
All well and good, but the problem is I have 388 video clips to work with, each having 6 audio tracks.
Currently this is very manual (drag each video clip and audio clip to a sequence, export to plural eyes, sync, import back to PP, rename, top & tail, drag into main sequence).
Is there a way I can automate the sync, & nesting ? or is this approach just plain wrong? i,e. is there a better way? I really want to be able to carry out simple editing including j /l cuts on the main timeline, and select the actual audio later.
Declan Smith
https://www.madpanic.tv
After Effects CS6/ FCS3 / Canon XLH1 / Canon 7D / Reason / Cubase“it’s either binary or it’s not”
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Hi Declan,
I’m working on a project that has 8 channels of audio and one camera. I was also wondering if there was some way to automate the sync process so as not to have to export to Plural Eyes individually. My end goal is the same as yours- to have multiple audio channels to “drill” into to choose the best audio while editing. Did you find a better solution to your problem? As I’m just getting started out on this project, any advice you may have would be very helpful!
thanks
Mina
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