So you’re asking about…
assembling video and separate audio clips to a master sequence where media start of each clip is Sequence in when you perform the edit
each with their own media start times…
so you’ll end up with a sequence with a lot of gaps just due to the stop downs in the shooting and recording process
and the stop downs between the video and auxiliary audio won’t match…so the gaps won’t align.
do I understand the problem correctly?
I’m not sure about automating to sequence at matching media start.
However purely from an organizational stand point…
it might be helpful to copy and paste all the audio and video in a single bin…then sort that bin by media start…
at the very least you can get the general order in which the elements ought to occur and you can see where the overlap between your video and audio events coincide.
I’d probably then go ahead and cut in the video 1st (with it’s corresponding audio where it’s available)
then go back and cut in the aux audio on a separate track.
one problem I can predict is that I’m sur they probably each set the “time of day” manually in each device manually at the start of the shoot. so audio and video may not match exactly, even when the TOD timecode does. remember though, once you figure out the offset…all you aux audio clips can be selected and shifted by that equal amount (assuming they are running by the same frame rates)…
I know this isn’t much help….
but at the moment it’s what I could come up with….
I’ll keep thinking….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX