syncing Double system audio and video in premiere

[Eddie Lotter]

Once you have a video and audio clip synched in a sequence you can use that sequence as a clip in other sequences using nested sequences.

You will also find links to many free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.

Cheers
Eddie

[Sam Gubbels]

thank you, its not quiet what I’m accustomed to with avid but I’ll make due. Why hasn’t adobe made this easier? I mean most productions work with double system and isn’t premiere supposed to be “professional” editing software?

thanks again though.

[Eddie Lotter]

[sam gubbels] “isn’t premiere supposed to be “professional” editing software?”

What is unprofessional about nested sequences? They’re very useful and very versatile.

Cheers
Eddie

[Sam Gubbels]

As useful as a subclip though? I can’t just click on a sequence to bring it to the source monitor.

[Eddie Lotter]

[sam gubbels] “I can’t just click on a sequence to bring it to the source monitor.”

Click and drag it to the Source Monitor. The default action for a sequence is to open in the timeline panel.

Cheers
Eddie

[Alan Lloyd]

Put the clip in the timeline and export it, uncompressed.

Problem solved.

[Eddie Lotter]

[Alan Lloyd] “Put the clip in the timeline and export it,”

That is another option, but nesting takes a lot less disk space. 😉

Cheers
Eddie

[Daniel Beahm]

Both of these solutions take an insane amount of time and space.

Are you really telling me that you can’t create a file (that would show up in your media bin) that is simply the audio and video linked (in other words, the video file just shows up with the “speaker icon” showing that there is audio linke to it)?

I am editing a feature film, and I have thousands and thousands of video clips (RED .r3d files) that need to be synced to externally recorded audio.

Are you saying that I have to created a nested clip (create it, name it, organize it), or export from the timeline, EVERY clip of video that we shot over 24 days, thousands of takes, thus creating thousands of more files, be they nested sequences or exported combined files?!

If this is true, then Adobe had better get off their butts and fix this MAJOR short-coming if they expect to be taken seriously as a Pro-Video editing tool.

It’s bad enough that they don’t seem to be addressing time code for audio (I should be able to link audio and video with time code, not have to go in and VISUALLY sync audio and video).

Both Final Cut and AVID simply import the audio with time code, sync the files to the time code on the video, and store the audio and video together, showing the files as linked in the media bin. It’s all pretty automatic and extremely simple.

GET WITH IT ADOBE.

[Chris Conlee]

This is a cludgy workaround, in my opinion. Clicking and dragging is a sure-fire recipe for carpal tunnel syndrome. Adobe needs to make it possible to create new subclips with synched audio and video so a simple double-click would get it to the source monitor.

At the very least, add a modifier key, such as Command + double-click, or something that makes a sequence land in the source side, instead of on the timeline.

Does something like that exist, btw?

Chris Conlee

[Stephen Eckelberry]

I realize this is an ancient thread, by I too am cutting a R3D feature in PP CS5, and miss having subclips. Yes I can use nested sequences, but I don’t want to because A. Will loose waveforms, and B. nervous about exporting subclips to AE as I have an effects heavy show with numerous AE editors working from different drives and can’t afford any relinking problems. Here’s what I posted about it on the Adobe PP forum:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/659109

Stephen Eckelberry
Film Editor