Problems with Pluraleyes

[Steve Marshall]

Pluraleyes worked great for me for months. Then in the last month. It just doesn’t line up properly anymore.

I have small clips edited from a Canon 5D in FCP for an interview. Then after I cut the interview I usually pluraleyes the B roll camera full lenth version with the clips. Usually each cut clip lines up perfectly on the exact right spot on the B roll then I cut them and put back together.

Now Pluraleyes puts all the clips and the B roll on a green tab (which usually means everything lines up and is processed) but they are close but don’t line up. all of them are you different amounts each time. Usually 2 to 5 seconds.

I have to open to the beginning to see the old fashion clap to calculate how far out the clips are. Once I find that out I move all Pluraleyes clips that much and it works.

I’ve had to go back to the old fashioned way to get my work done. If this has happened to anyone else it would be great to hear if you had a cure.

Can’t be sure but it seems it started to mess up after a Pluraleyes update.

Thanks
Steve

[Jason Mccammon]

Plural Eyes works great sometimes, and not others. Currently, I’ve spend two days trying to analyze a sequence. I just stopped it just check what was going on, but it’s been running for 14 hours and only at 60%.

Another time it was running for about 12 hours and my aunt switched of the light switch that controls the outlet(uurgh!) But still, 12 hours is too long isn’t it? So is 14, for 60%.

Monday i ran a multi clip over night and woke up with an error 37. Anyone know what that is?

Other problems are with FCP when it transfers files. You have to make sure that your files are linked or sometimes Pluraleyes will sync up the sound but the video will be all over the place. But i’ll deal with that if i can just get it to run for me now. I’m wasting so much time on this. Anyone know why it’s taking so long?????

[Bob Uruncle]

I have an issue on this related topic.

Pluraleyes seems to do what it wants in organizing takes on the timline. I.e. I am recording an interview with multiple takes, have one camera with bad audio and using external sound. I have laid takes 1-6 on the time line followed by laying sound files 1-6 in the same order.

Make pluraleyes do its thing using the “Try hard” function and while it does sync up everything nicely…the resulting order of takes falls differently than how I laid it. Thus takes 1-6 end up 2,4,5,3,1,6 creating a serious headache to reorganize them when I have 17 interviews. Is there a way to have Pluraleyes keep the takes in the order they have been laid in the timeline? Using the “timecode” function is not an option here.

J