Bruce Sharpe
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There’s nothing wrong with the clips, it’s just a matter of getting the NLE to interpret the timing of them correctly. FCP needs a little more attention to setup than iMovie or Vegas in this case.
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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The cause is almost certainly that some FCP settings are causing it to be confused about how to handle the audio timing. The explanation and solution are described here:
The sync is a little bit off, or my clips drift out of sync
Bruce
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Haven’t heard of this happening before, but it could just be a bug. If you send us the project and log files as described here we’ll investigate. Please include a link to this forum message so we know what it’s about.
Bruce
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I think this video tutorial is what you need.
https://www.singularsoftware.com/tutorials.html?play_movie=m_multiclip_02
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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There’s a newer version of the video on YouTube now.
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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The current version of PluralEyes creates a multicam clip automatically. Look for an event with the project name followed by “mc”.
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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One big difference between PluralEyes and DualEyes is that only the former can help with multi-camera projects. But within the realm of dual-system audio, some people do prefer the DualEyes workflow for the reasons you suggest, while others prefer the benefits of integration with the NLE. Setting up a sequence in a timeline before syncing doesn’t bother them and is considered easier than finding the output files from DualEyes to bring them into the NLE. Also, with PluralEyes you get immediate visual feedback on the sync results, which can be helpful.
We can see the merits on both sides and while I can’t say too much just now, let’s just say we are interested in bringing the best of both worlds to everyone.
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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PluralEyes doesn’t create one giant clip, it moves the individual clips in the timeline to be in their synced positions. It also works well for syncing many clips at the same time, not just one pair at a time.
See the video tutorial here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyEwPh7EgQQ
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
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Contact Singular Software support. We have another update in the works that may fix this, but we’ll need more information to be sure.
https://www.singularsoftware.com/submit.html
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
Singular Software Inc.
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The dual-system audio project in the demo was perhaps overly simplistic (in an effort to be clear). A more representative example of what PluralEyes is asked to do looks like this:
That project took about 40 seconds to sync.
As for the general question of what does PluralEyes offer beyond the built-in sync, the best answer that I can give is that we have had many FCP X users begging us to have PluralEyes work with it. And, as always, our products have fully functional, free, 30-day trials so that anyone can try them out and judge for themselves if they are worth the purchase.
Bruce
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Bruce Sharpe
Singular Software Inc.
http://www.singularsoftware.com