Audio and Video Batch Sync Timecode

[David Roth weiss]

Sorry, but without a guide track on the footage you can’t batch sync or successfully use any app such as Pluraleyes – both the built-in sync function in Premiere and Pluraleyes sync waveforms from the 2nd system audio with the waveforms from the guidetrack on the camera footage.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Weston Jones]

Uhhhhh. Really? There is not way to sync picture to audio using timecode? isnt that the point of timecode?

Is there some other software people use with premiere?

[David Roth weiss]

Do your audio and video have matching timecode?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Weston Jones]

Sorry i wasnt subscribed to this thread and didnt see your response.

Yes my audio and video has the same timecode. I used a digital slate.

The only work around I saw was to batch sync the audio/video using a workaround involving multicam sequences. There are some tutorials around, where you can select multiple audio and video files and create multicam sequence based on timecode, and select new multicam sequence for each clip. This sounds a little wonky to me, adding another step, but maybe the best way?

Thanks.

[Weston Jones]

For others interested, here is the multicam work around

video tutorial: https://vimeo.com/123657864

Longer discussion on Adobe’s help site where I found the above: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1067749

Works fine so far.

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[Søren Nowakowski]

I’m late, I know. But for any one else dealing with this problem in Premiere in the future, I thought I might suggest the solution.

Just last night I had the same issue. Hours of footage, no audio ref on footage, only timecodes from both.

I researched and found https://www.tentaclesync.com/#download

Apparently they make the hardware need for timecode syncing on set, but they also have software to go along with it. It’s not free though, but they do offer a 14 day trial. One quick trip to my email account later and I was good to go.

I opened the program, drag’n’dropped all my footage and my audio in the same “bin”, and presto. All synced via timecode. Didn’t even have to click any “sync” button first. That’s even better than a one-lock-solution ????
Exported an XML, import in PPro, og voila. A nicely synced timeline. From here I go in and trim audio overflows manually and link footage and audio together per clip. So that part still sucks, but the frustration of the sync proces is out of the equation now. Saved me a couple of hours ☺

Hope it can help some of you having the same issue!