Syncing many clips with sound

[Christoffer Glans]

I'm trying to sync up a whole day of shooting by timecode but I can't mark all of them and choose "merge clips", how do you sync a days shoot automatically? Or is this another retarded Adobe-dysfunction?

 

[Nick Morrison]

I'm trying to sync up a whole day of shooting by timecode but I can't mark all of them and choose "merge clips", how do you sync a days shoot automatically? Or is this another retarded Adobe-dysfunction?

We use Davinci Resolve for that. Highlight all clips and audio files and select "sync audio by timecode and append".

Works like a charm.

 

[Mark Moran]

Similarly in RED Cine-X, in batches on the Audio tab. Can sync by TC or waveform, and with manual override. Was hoping that Adobe would have allowed for batch processing of clips, or at least a little more functionality in the Merge Clips option.

Unfortunately, ordinarily, I'm still going through clip by clip and merging in there. It's made us modify our shoots a little though - the incentive to keep rolling through stuff is a little higher now, as each new clip in camera adds a fraction more time in post!

 

[Scot Yount]

FCPX does it extremely well too.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Unfortunately, ordinarily, I'm still going through clip by clip and merging in there. It's made us modify our shoots a little though - the incentive to keep rolling through stuff is a little higher now, as each new clip in camera adds a fraction more time in post!

The disadvantage of long takes is that it's very stressful for the actors and the crew. If you use a little time between each take for a momentary break just to let everybody regain their composure and catch their breath, it's a lot easier on everybody. I think it's false economy to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot... but I'm looking at it from the post perspective as well as production. I think the discipline coming from film was a better way to approach the problem.

Syncing is child's play and very, very easy to do. Just hire an affordable assistant, put them in a closet, and let them go at it. Great assistants can sync up a take per minute (or faster), so even if you do 200 takes a day -- which is high -- they could do it in less than 4 hours. And you still need somebody to backup the footage, create dailies, inspect the footage for any technical problems, and get the bins all set up for the editor.

 

[Joe Riggs]

I think it's false economy to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot... but I'm looking at it from the post perspective as well as production. I think the discipline coming from film was a better way to approach the problem.

Amen