Syncing Canon 7D footage with a separate audio source!

[Brad Elliott]

I would make sure that the audio and video are the same frame rate. If not this will create many opportunities for frustration.

We gave up on using Pluraleyes to sync for us as it was consistently inconsistent. You can try Pluraleyes but just be open to the idea that you may have to manually sync some or a majority of the clips.

We normally have a slate or a hand clap at the head and then sync from there. When we don’t have this we have had to just manually sync it. Put the clips in a sequence with the camera audio and then try and match waveforms from your external device to the camera audio.

[David O’ sullivan]

Thanks Brad for the reply. Humm I know what your saying I read a lot of posts on this topic and by doing that I also came to the conclusion that Puraleyes wouldn’t be of much use. I did see a post where someone had the same issue of the audio track in FCP being out of sync with the waveforms causing the problem of not being able to manually sync in any case. But the solution was involved in using a PAL system. I was hoping that I could have used a similar process with my 7D system but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be such a solution. I am just wondering if there is a process for the 7D that I could at least sort out my waveform issue. If I can get this resolved I can then go ahead and make a start at manually syncing my audio and video files.

[David O’ sullivan]

Ok, so I sorted the out of sync waveforms in FCP 7.03 by compressing the source audio (using compressor) into AIFF files @ 48k, 16 bit. Happy Days!

[Fred Miller]

Just curious. What were the original audio files recorded as?

FCP Studio 2
Dual 3Gg Quad Core
4Gg RAM
KONA 3
OS 10.5.8

[David O’ sullivan]

Hi Fred, I am not sure what rate they were recorded at as the Olympus WS 650S used was not mine, I do know that it records at multiple rates and I was sent wav files.