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Organizing footage by time of day recorded in Adobe Premiere
Hi-
I’ll first give you the details of the shoot, and then ask my question.
– This was a man-on-the-street style shoot in a public space
– Two actors, with two wired lav mics recording into their cell phones
– Three cameras, very far away from the subjects
– On-set we would roll cameras, roll audio, slate/mark, then send the two actors into a public location for about 10 minutes, without ever cutting camera/audio. However, one of my camera ops broke this rule and was periodically cutting. That decision is what is causing me a syncing problem.
– I am editing in Adobe Premiere CC 2015THE QUESTION:
I am wondering if there’s a way for me to have Adobe Premiere automatically organize this camera operator’s footage in a sequence by TIME OF DAY, so that there are empty spaces where he wasn’t recording (similar to the way Avid does it). If I could do that, then I can sync his first clip, and just let his subsequently recorded clips fall into sync with everything else.
Thanks in advance,
Jonah -
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Someone will hopefully chime in with a more desireable answer for you, which would mean we’d both learn something new.
My understanding of multicam sync in Premiere Pro is that it is dependent upon the footage being continuous, without breaks. Breaks would mean you would have to sync those segments manually.
Perhaps add-on audio sync software like Plural Eyes or something else would resolve this, but I do not have those options, so I cannot say.
System:
Dell Precision T7600 (x2)
Win 7 64-bit
32GB RAM
Adobe CC 2014 (as of 7/2015)
256GB SSD system drive
4 internal media drives RAID 5
Typically cutting short form from HD MP4 and P2 MXF. -
Actually, I was able to use multi-cam to get me most of the way there!
I created a multi-cam sequence using the “Synchronize by Timecode” and the “Create Single Multicam Source Sequence” settings. By doing that, I had a sequence with all my clips staggered by timecode. That was the missing link I was looking for. After that, I could right-click the multi-cam clip and “Open in Timeline”, which allowed me to see this:
Then I had to deal with the tedious task of dropping them all down to one track, to create this type of sequence:
So again, that’s one camera, with it’s clips staggered by timecode.
I did that for each camera.. leading me to having four sequences like the one above. Then I merged them all into a master sequence, synced up the first clips of each track with my externally recored audio… and Bam. Since the rest of the clips in each stringout had just been organized by timecode, everything fell into the right place.
Here’s an example with two cameras that I needed to sync:
Sorry if there are redundancies in this explanation… just wanted to make sure it’s clear for anyone else who had this same issue. If anyone has questions, holler and I’ll clarify.
Jonah
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on a lark try this….
select all the stair stepped clips….
copy
go to After Effects
make a comp that matches your resolution
paste
this will put all the clips in the COMP
now select all in the AE comp and COPY again….
now go back to Pro and paste into a Sequence…
I bet since there is no overlap…you get everything on V1….
lemme know…
Alex Udell
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