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PPro Syncing Separate Audio, after editing…
Hi,
I am editing a short film in PPro CC, shot on a Canon 5d, with boomed audio recorded separately.
Its interview footage with cutaways filmed in a factory.All the shots have a clapper board in vision with a slate number, so I have a record of which shot is which.
All the external sound recordings have a slate number that corresponds to the video.Problem:
I had to cut the first edit fast, so I synced up the main interview track using the PPro CC synchronize function, and was fairly easily able to replace the on camera audio with the decent boom mic recording.
I then edited 30 or so cutaways from the factory footage, this footage also has a separate boom recording but I didn’t bring it in to my first round of editing to keep my timeline simple, and also not much time to do it.
I now have the problem that I have 30 or so cutaways with on camera audio that I need to replace with boom audio, but I cant see a fast simple way to synchronise the footage with sound, once the cuts have been made. I am having to take each individual clip and paste it into a sep timeline, make a note of its in and out points, and then do the sync. Then trim the decent audio to size then paste it back into another track in my main edit. And its is going to be very slow and painful doing it this way!
Any thoughts really appreciated, deadline looming fast!
Eugene
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3 Replies
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You can do this without timecode or leaving the timeline. Not sure how complicated your timeline is but I would just move each clip’s video and audio parts to clear tracks (this is to avoid slipping and losing sync). Then drop the boom audio on a track beneath the on-camera audio. Synchronize by audio, trim the boom track to fit the video, drag it up over the on-camera track, link the two and you’re good to go.
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Thanks Paul for your reply, just finished relinking the good sound to the shots, one of those jobs you can’t really automate or speed up -alot of the synchronization simply didn’t work, I figure this is because of the nature of the sound recording, in a factory with noise basically everywhere. Thankfully it was slated so I could look out for the spike on the waveform, and use PPro audio time units feature to get a match.. took me around 4 hours! All sounding great now though..Cheers.
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Yeah you’re situation was pretty singular. I figured it was just factory noise and wondered how PPro would handle that. It can do a lot but sometimes noise is just noise and only your human ears/eyes are gonna know if it’s right or not.
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