Possible to sync video with audio from a .wav file, or…

[Kevin Rag]

You can use ‘merge clips’ inside PrPro. But I usually use Plural Eyes for this. ver 4 works inside PrPro too:)

Kannan Raghavan
The Big Toad Films Pte. Ltd.

[Andrew Kimery]

Premiere Pro has PluralEyes functionality built in. Highlight all the clips you need, right click, “make multi-cam source sequence” and in the thread below Herb talks about the differences between the different audio setting options.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/975940#976003

I wouldn’t suggest using ‘merge clip’ as that can cause problems such as being unable to use the match frame feature to match back to the source clip.

[Duke Sweden]

Yikes, $299 bucks! I think I’ll do it by ear for now.
Andrew, I’m talking about syncing a video with (poor sounding) audio to an audio track from a digital voice recorder. Does that work the same as syncing multiple camera sources?

[Andrew Kimery]

[Duke Sweden] “Does that work the same as syncing multiple camera sources?”

Yes, it uses the audio to do the sync so as long as the camera(s) are recording sound too you are good to go.

[Duke Sweden]

ok, thanks!

[Jeff Pulera]

I’ve always just done it visually, match up the wave forms between the camera audio and external recording. Of course, it certainly helps to start with a point of reference. With a wedding ceremony, I might use the start of a song, or the minister saying “Welcome…”.

Find that commonality on both recordings, get them close that way, then make the audio tracks fat to show the wave forms and zoom in to frame level and match the two together visually.

Then if there is an echo between the two tracks, I will change the timeline view to “Audio Units” which allows zooming in beyond the limits of 30 or 60 fps, and being able to zoom into the audio timing level (48000 per second!!!), then I can really match them up perfectly.

This is not something I would try to do for sync-sound for multiple clips, I just do it for long-single recordings like a stage event or wedding ceremony.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera

[Duke Sweden]

Thanks, Jeff. Yeah my videos are actually easy to sync up since I can do a loud clap after a silent pause and sync it that way.

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Duke,

Most of the time when I sync two audio sources, they need to run for an hour or more and what I’ve found is that two cameras will sync perfectly, even up to 2.5 hours, but if one audio recording is from a portable audio recorder, it will drift and not stay in sync with the camera.

One solution might be to adjust the playback speed of the audio clip ever so slightly, but I haven’t tried that I just put a Razor cut in the .wav audio every so often and tweak the position by a frame or so as needed when the lip sync starts getting sloppy.

Thanks

Jeff

[Duke Sweden]

My video clips are rarely longer than 30 seconds. I guess I won’t know how big a problem this will be until my Tascam DR-05 comes Thursday. Working on an episode for my comedy channel with a lot more dialog than usual. Might as well jump in head first 😉

[Jeff Pulera]

The DR-05 is the unit I have also! Sync was horrible on project last weekend. I don’t recall having such bad sync with previous uses, but I don’t do much video these days and many months pass between uses, or once a year even…

Jeff