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URGENT – Timecode sync – not premiere or da vinci does it right
Hello! I have an issue with premiere pro timecode sync. It’s been working for 20 days of shooting, but now the timecode doesn’t sync with the original files, can someone help me?
The image clip A236C003_240425AU.mov should sync with the audio clip 631P1T01.wav , but when I preform the sync in the timeline, they don’t sync. It only syncs with audio reference. And it doesn’t make sense the timecode that appears on the synchronize screen.
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Does anyone knows what’s happening and how can I fix it?
I’ve tried in Da Vinci as well, and the same thing happens, it syncs with audio sync but not with timecode.
Thank you in advance!
replied 2 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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Hey Sara,
How annoying, and frustrating!
There is not enough information for anyone here to investigate the individual files.
But if you look at your second screen-shot, of the WAV files, then it is either a miracle, or there is something else happening.
As if the audio and the video were running on the same frame-rate with camera and audio recorder synced together, it should be near impossible for soo many clips next to one another to end up with “00” in duration. And you have 5 clips that starts with “00” and ends on “24”, and the 6th clip does its own thing.
It could be a setting in how the audio recorder recorded clips, frame-rate or other wise. But nonetheless is confusing the editing software. In short someone might have “flicked” a switch on day 20.
If the time-code for video and audio is in sync when syncing using audio as a guide, then I would suggest that you use that – just to get started. You could take all the clips and treat them as a multi-cam sync from the bin, and see if that is faster.
As it is a 20 day shoot, I would suggest that you might also reach out to who-ever will be doing final audio foley(?), ADR and Mix, to see if they have comments. As it is unlikely to be a new problem that you have discovered by chance.
As always, there are much smarter people around here than me, who will have a better idea of what is going on.
Do let us know when you find the cause and the solution, as we can all learn from that.Atb
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Mads, sorry for the late reply, thank you so much!
I couldn’t figure it out, but it was only on two days of shooting, after that it came back to normal so I believe it was something on setting the camera / sound timecode in the local.
Thank you again for the help!
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Hey Sara,
No problem, happy to hear that you are back to normal.
One question for the “post-mortem” for the production, as to why the camera and/or sound department did not feed that information back through the chain to you?
Mistakes happens for all of us, but not owing them when realised, is not good for anyone.
The audio recordist might have written it in the notes, which may be stuck on a computer on set…
Either way they gave you grey hair, unless you pulled it out, whilst thinking that the problem was at your end.Good Luck with the edit – do come back and tell us where to watch the final version.
Atb
Mads
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