Any plans for an auto sync feature?

Krezathal wrote on 12/5/2018, 4:06 AM

Just what the description says.

I've been manually syncing external audio and video for as long as I can remember, but a friend recently showed me Pluraleyes. Needless to say, I was very taken with it, and I was wondering if there were any plans to incorporate something like this as a native feature in Vegas?

I know Pluraleyes can be use with Vegas, but an actual built in feature that doesn't require a third party application would be really, really nice.

I'm actually surprised that a feature like this isn't there already, becasue as far as I can see it just looks at the audio wave forms of the scratch and external audio files and lines them up. I do something similar when I'm programming video games in order to make music loop smoothly with a buffer/repeat zone and the code for it is very, very simple as it just analyses peaks and troughs, and then moves the audio file along an x-axis until it matches.

When Melodyne came out Steinberg were on the ball and came up with Variaudio as a native feature in Cubase (which basically is Melodyne) and it just feels really comfortable to have something as a native feature within a program.

If I've missed something and a feature like this is there already then please point me in the right direction. I'm making a music documentary out of my own pocket at the moment and there are masses of footage and external audio, so a built in feature like this would be priceless (pardon the pun).

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rraud wrote on 12/5/2018, 10:11 AM

VP does not have a utility like Pluraleyes and doubt that it will.. would be nice though.

Krezathal wrote on 12/5/2018, 10:34 AM

VP does not have a utility like Pluraleyes and doubt that it will.. would be nice though.

That's a shame. It seems like something which should be a simple, stock feature in all video software as it's so useful.

john-brown wrote on 12/5/2018, 11:04 AM

I, too, am surprised that this is not in Vegas. In both Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium and Video Pro X there is a command to align audio objects. This is a requirement for multi-cam.

How do you align the tracks for multi-cam?

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Krezathal wrote on 12/5/2018, 11:21 AM

I, too, am surprised that this is not in Vegas. In both Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium and Video Pro X there is a command to align audio objects. This is a requirement for multi-cam.

How do you align the tracks for multi-cam?

I usually just use the old "clap to make an audio spike" trick, and then align by hand to the footage. The thing is, in the heat of a documentary sometimes that doesn't happen, and it'd be super useful to have a native audio sync tool for the takes that either don't have a timecode sync or don't have a clapperboard marker. Even if they do it'd be much faster to have an auto sync feature.

Maybe Vegas could get ahead of the man competition here.

fr0sty wrote on 12/5/2018, 5:20 PM

There are plugins compatible with Vegas that can do it for you, until they get around to implementing something.

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Krezathal wrote on 12/6/2018, 4:10 AM

There are plugins compatible with Vegas that can do it for you, until they get around to implementing something.

Yeah, but it seems more like a workaround to have to launch a separate program/extension which imports stuff rather than just doing it natively on the Vegas pro timeline right there and then. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking third party applications, but instead of buying a separate piece of software then installing it and then having to launch a whole other program to do the sync work in its own timeline and then re-importing seems cumbersome and I'd prefer it to just be a built in feature.

It's a case of too many steps to do a relatively simple task