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PluralEyes 3.1.1 and R3D in Premiere Pro

Hey Joe,

R3D and PluralEyes v3 don't work well together (unsupported format). I emailed Redgiant last week about this, here was their response...

Feb 13 11:36

Hi Ryan,

The last version of PluralEyes 2 was 2.0.8 (8787). You can find that build in the PluralEyes v2 folder of this installer package.

http://files.redgiantsoftware.com/Products/SingleSuites/PluralEyes/Archive/PluralEyes_Win_3.2.1.zip
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Haven't tested this though. I found that v2.0.4 (7151) works if you can find it.

EDIT #1: v2 8787 doesn't work for me still, I get a "A third party component threw an exception: External component has thrown an exception.." message. I'm going to try to find 7151.

EDIT #2: I think I figured it out. v2 7151 only works if you have Adobe Media Encoder CS6 (I've confirmed it to work with 6.0.3.1 and confirmed it doesn't work with AME CC). So wow, my winning combination will have to be PLE v2 (Build 7151) with AME CS6 (Build 6.0.31) until Red Giant gets their act together and updates their v3 to read R3D files. Red Giant really dropped the ball on us editors who edit .R3D files. Way to take a step backwards guys.
 
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I did a search seems to be only for Windows? No mac version?

I tried v2.09 it doesn't give an error but it's not syncing them up, basically exports an xml to and back, with the two clips end to end.

I tried unlinking the R3d, same thing.
 
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Another year, another version of both Premiere (CC 2014) and PluralEyes (3.3.4) and STILL no solution to this problem.

What the hell, Red Giant?
 
Since Red Giant sh*t the bed with this, is there alternative software out there that works in the same way? I've got some R3D footage with scratch audio with about another 8 audio tracks that I'm looking to sync. I know Premiere CC will sync individual video clips but that could take a while with the project I'm working on.
 
I just downloaded the trial and cant get past the Audio Extraction failed error.

Looks like it was never fixed period.

Now to be fair the clips I am testing have very low audible scratch using the Olympus ME-15.

However using FCPX, R3Ds and audio from Sound Devices 744T, I can get about 8 out of 10 to sync.

The failed ones I would eyeball easily.

Now since I have to sync over 800 clips, I thought Id try and find an easier route with PluralEyes.

I guess it back to FCPX for me.

My question is, does PluralEyes do batch or do you have import the two clips for syncing one at a time?

It sure seems FCPX blows the PluralEyes workflow from what I can gather (cant get past the above error).

Oh and yes next time, jam sync to mofo :P
 
Just a heads up that version 3.5 now is supposed to support syncing of R3D footage. I have yet to test this out myself though.

They offered me 20% off the upgrade price for screwing me over with the v3.3 upgrade - they decided to randomly remove R3D syncing in one of the updates and their solution was to revert me back to 2.0, which didn't work with the latest version of AME at the time (that was a headache to troubleshoot).

Anyways, hearing other people still having issues with the current version now from other threads so I'm even more reluctant to pay for this thing.
 
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Ryan Sauve said:
Just a heads up that version 3.5 now is supposed to support syncing of R3D footage. I have yet to test this out myself though...
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Looking forward to your results.

Between this and Tentacle Sync, Im hoping R3D support becomes the norm.
 
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Nope. I couldn't justify paying for something twice. Says it's supposed to work though in the release notes.
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I havent checked on updates but last time I dealt with support it didnt work.

I have asked numerous times for proof before purchase and no dice.
 
Can confirm, works on R3D files, but won't show the Video in the preview pane.

However, there is a tweak that you need to do if you're going from the PC version of Plural Eyes to Premiere

After finding Plural Eyes' export XML, open it in Notepad and globally change the phrase

<channelcount>0</channelcount>

to

<channelcount>2</channelcount>

assuming that your R3D files have stereo audio embedded.

If you don't do this Premiere will give you the incredibly useful 'generic error' message and the import will fail.
 
I just downloaded PluralEyes 4 - and it won't let me import the Raven files. Anyone had an issue with this? I am using the plugin inside Premiere CC and it gives me a "Media Preparation Completed with Error" message

PlurualEyes 4 does support R3D files, but maybe they haven't updated for Raven, not sure. I bought it hoping it would sync R3D files, but no luck so far.
 
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