

Tidbit: sometimes it doesnt matter if your shot is in sync. but only using a short section of sound from your existing sync map. Try Avid Waveform analysis on on/off parts of a single 3rd camera clip. Perhaps you can export audio Wavs in shorter, discreet chunks defined by common audio rather than entire clips. Perhaps you work hard to get 2 out of 5 cameras in sync. In some cases, lighting cues and flashes from cameras helps find sync.įor me its about getting SOMETHING in sync and working outwards from that to sync the harder cameras (the ones with the most on/off cuts) or least clues. were theyĪll receiving the same feed from a mixer? Without that, it seems you have already tried patching together a complete audio track made from the 5 cameras. is there any chance you can track down an audio recording of this old event? You mention a “glimpse of timecode on set”. If it fails at one hour + (which was my experience with just 2-cams with identical sound ) and above, is there a way to break the job into smaller chunks? Maybe you can “divide and conquer”.Īlong those lines, I would ask if among the 5, are there 2 cameras that are most easily “mapped”? Perhaps a lockdown and another “less stop/start-y” wide shot? This is footage from 1999 and i'm a newb. Every once in a while I get a glimpse of a timecode clock on set, but not on every camera nor for every cut and even if I did, i'm not sure exactly what to do with them. I'm looking at 5 cameras, no cam timecode, no external audio (although each clip has audio), no slate, and every camera cuts multiple times. looking at entangle and knowing this office won't pay $20/month for it (but I could beg if someone can confirm this is a good solution). downloading resolve thinking there might be a way to sync the cips in there and my brain melting. using premiere to create a faux "external" audio clip by patching the audio and synchronizing in the premiere timeline, then multigrouping everything with it in Avid. Maybe because there is no consistent external audio track. This method works in chunks for the most part, but I can't seem to get it to analyze over an hour of footage that way.

I was hoping that with the new "analyze by waveform" addition (this office just upgraded from MC6.5) that there would be a way to skip the pluraleyes and copying auxiliary timecodes step and just multigroup by waveform. However, Pluraleyes 3.5 keeps crashing every time I try to use it and I fear we have upgraded beyond our ability to use it. The way I learned to multigroup is the sync map > AAF > pluraleyes and back situation.

Forgive me if I'm missng something obvious here: we're running Avid 2018.5 and I'm attempting to multigroup some archive concert footage and we've recently upgraded to High sierra.
