I'm still stuck in my ways like an old man on CS6 but i was thinking of upgrading based on this alone. Jaron are you using Premiere CC? It has audio syncing built in. These audio waveform spikes at the start of your roll if loud enough (and they will be if right near your DSLR mic) will be enough for PL Eyes to do it's job.
It's not perfect, but it's much closer than anything else I've tried in the past.Ĭhris, try adding a "hit" (snap, hand clap, slate board or other loud sound), close to the DSLR mic and your other audio source if you can, when you start rolling. Pluraleyes from Red Giant is available for $200, which in my book basically pays for itself after one editing session with the amount of time it saved me. Won't sync unless you recorded audio separately.Sometimes give varying results for same series of clips.Program loads quickly and operates smoothly.Fast, accurate audio syncing for multiple cameras and multiple audio streams.And if you are a video editor like I am, you'll take quick and easy any day of the week. I absolutely loathe the idea of going back to my previous method, since using Pluraleyes is just so. These issues aside, life with Pluraleyes is monumentally easier for me than life without it.
It required an audio clip in order to consider the product "done." I got around this by separating the audio in Audition and bringing it in redundantly, but it was annoying. Because I did not have a standalone audio file, just two video files, Pluraleyes refused to export the XML for Premiere. My final weird issue came when I once did record audio internally on one camera and just wanted to sync that clip set with another camera that I was running. I haven't had any trouble with other camera brands generating the same file type as the a7S video clips, so it was pretty strange that this was happening. I also ran into an issue where Sony a7S footage was unrecognized by the software, which was bizarre. It's not a big deal because I can usually easily fix the one or two clips that failed to sync right very quickly in Premiere, but I would certainly like the product to work 100% how they say it will 100% of the time. The problem here, though, is that sometimes audio and video clips that it once successfully synced oddly don't sync the next time, and I'm left with 95% of my work done instead of 100%. When would this happen? For example, if I bring in a batch of video files and a batch of audio files and I'm not sure which audio files I need, I often will just drag in a bunch and delete the extraneous ones after syncing. Sometimes multiple syncs on the same batch of footage can result in different results. What could have taken me all day now takes about 5 minutes. Click "Synchronize" and it's done! You can then export the file as a premiere XML and when you open that in Premiere, it comes in as a perfecly synced and organized timeline. All you have to do is drag in your video files from the multiple (or single) cameras and also bring in your audio. Since I am at least organized on a per-day basis, this isn't asking too much of me. Instead of needing to know specifics, I just need to know which day I shot all the footage. Pluraleyes takes all that out of the equation. I can feasibly spend hours just trying to figure out which audio clip corresponds with which video clip. The more I shoot, and the more I shoot before I get back to my main workstation, the worse this becomes.
You see, I don't remember which audio file went with which video file. When your editing folders look like this. Now, the downside of the process in Premiere is you actually need to know exactly what audio clip corresponds to the video clip with which you want to sync.