How to automatically Sync audio and Photo

Kloverton wrote on 8/24/2019, 5:51 PM

Hi Guys, I'm so so sorry about asking it, but this is a nightmare.

I got files recorded on camera and audio on Zoom recorder.

But all the files are chopped and there are to many! I can't do it manually.

Is there a button which will allow audio filles attach to video ones.

The ones from camera have goood audio...

PLEASE HELP!

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Former user wrote on 8/24/2019, 6:51 PM

@Kloverton You can sync using audio, the following is an extract from the help menu …

"Choose Menu Tools > Multicamera > Synchronize Audio to Align Events

The events below the topmost one are moved forward or backward so that they
are synchronized. In this process the whole audio data is analyzed to find similarities so this can take a while with longer recordings."

The program Pluraleyes is available, from my experience Pluraleyes will work where the built in tool fails.

Your mention photo in your post, you can use the date/time of the photos with respect to the date time of video clips to get a starting position for any photos, as well as any visual similarity.

Musicvid wrote on 8/24/2019, 10:34 PM

Is there a continuous camera clip available?

Or was this an amateur choreographer who was trying to "save film?"

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 8/25/2019, 9:04 PM

@Kloverton The way I do it is to select all the video clips together and drop them on the timeline in one swoop. If they're numbered in numerical order they'll all abut one another just like they're one continuous file. You might want to put them into a group so you don't move any inadvertently. Then in another track, drop in your zoom-recorder audio file. Then all you have to do in use the audio waveform to match up the beginning of the 1st video clip near the beginning of the audio file. Might want to turn off quantize to frames to fine-tune the nudging. I'm assuming you didn't pause and restart the camera during the session... if you did that, you'd have to separate and group the clips and repeat the process at each pause point, using the continuous audio as the master reference. Which is why its best to just leave the camera running till intermission or whatever.

Musicvid wrote on 8/26/2019, 12:15 AM

After a video and audio chunk are lined up, select both events, and hit "G."

Turn off Ignore Event Grouping. They are now locked to beach other.

cadudesun wrote on 11/29/2019, 5:40 AM

Hi,

Just jumping in the conversation about Vegas 17 functionality “Sync Audio to Align Events”, which I just used for the first time.

I’m pretty disappointed with “Sync Audio to Align Events”, since I got an error message after waiting more than two hours for Vegas trying to sync two 30minutes .mp4 files, running on an SSD drive in a high spec computer.

Then I tried syncing with PluralEyes v4, and in two minutes (not hours!) the timeline was ready to work, with a perfect sync between the files.

a) Is it supposedly that “Sync Audio to Align Events” would take 2hours to sync two 30minutes .mp4 files? Overall, is syncing time really that long?

b) Is it worth keep trying to “Sync Audio to Align Events” in other projects, hoping it may work, or was that functionality so bad implemented (long waiting time for processing, also with a high likelihood of error) that it would be worth ignoring it for now?

Thank you,

Carlos

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