I use Pluraleyes quite a bit in Vegas with great success. Love it. ..

What is your version of Vegas? And which version of Pluraleyes are you running?

Here's something I'm working on with 3 cameras .. and 2 tracks recorded on H1 Zoom recorder. Everything syncs up in Plural eyes. The live tracks with each video track are muted on the timeline. The 2 bottom tracks are mixed. Cutting between cameras is not difficult -- but does take some practice.

Hi guys, thank you. Both my cameras are Sony HDR XR 150 anime version of pluraleyes is the newest 4.1 and this is my first project in Vegas Pro 14. I've started over with 14 I was having all the problems with Vegas Pro 13. Red giant support said not to edit anything in Vegas before I sync with pluraleyes.

I was wondering if things would sync better if I trimmed the audio track which is one hour long into five or ten minutes segments with a couple seconds of space between them so there would be less tendency to drift?

But I'm guessing I would have to do that before I import them into the project with soundforge or something.

Also when I import and open up the folder I have a big long list of clips. Not just one continuous clip it's not a big deal for me too change the name of each one and number them.

Thank you

I wouldn't trim anything. Not video or audio. Vegas and Pluraleyes can handle. Camera one goes on Video Track one. Camera two on Video track two. Etc. Stack them on top of each other. Put the audio tracks below them, stacked also. Then run Pluraleyes. Should work. If you want to go slower, then Put up Camera One and all the audio tracks. Sync that. Then add the other cameras one by one.

Here's what a cut sections looks like for me with 3 cameras and two audio tracks all synced in PluralEyes.

Hello X and thanks. That doesn't look dissimilar to mine I just started over in 14 didn't trim anything just put them in. I did stagger camera one and Camera two between tracks 1 2 3 and 4 because I have 3 approximately 20 minute clips for each camera. The problem is this time it worked pretty well but I still have like a some amount of millisecond lag between the audio track and the cameras. I can, I suppose, highlight the of the clip and nudge it until it syncs with the audio track. I don't know any other solution unless there's a magic one.

I will start another fresh project with the same media and put all of camera one on track one and all of camera to on track two and see what happens.

The versions I did in 13 were just all over the place for some reason, red giant support thanks it might be because I editeded something in Vegas before I synced.

Thanks again!

WSS

I also have a Tascam I use, a DR05. I find its clock is different than my Canon video cameras. On a 45 minute shoot, the Tascam gains less than a second, but you can hear it. I use Ctrl-drag to change its length and that seems to sync things up. I find a sync point at the beginning of the clip, and then ctrl-drag the end until I see a point at the end sync up. Plural Eyes doesn't like the different clocks.

I wonder if I should find out the numbers for the digital cameras then open up the Tascam WAV file and see if I can match that up and save it in some forge?

WSS

After you sych w/ Plural Eyes you'll need to fine tune and nudge some of the audio and video clips to line them up.

Adding to dxdy's comment re: different clock rates, another thingI've found that helps to minize audio drift is to make sure all device audio sample rates are set to the highest that all the devices can record at. For instance my two DR40s, R09 and cameras all record audio at 48 kHz, 24 bit.

I'm sure the dr-40 is set at 16 bit which I thought the Sony cameras recorded at. I will have to check to see if I might have saved the dr-40 track as MP3 after I squashed it.

I can always open it back up and sound Forge and save it as 48.

Thanks.

WSS

Don'e how this effects PluralEyes but Vegas can run different sample rates on the same timeline w/o issue. 44.1 audio would be rendered to what ever the reder properties are set to. The MP3 format inherently adds about a frame of silence and the head and tail of a file. Don't know about PluralEyes. All cameras and audio recorders will drift over time w/o some sort of genlock The newer versions of PluralEyes can alegdly fix this too. I'm skeptcle. Even just lining up simple A/V it's usally off by a half -frame of more and needs to be tweaked

Imho, don't recommend recording in MP3. Better to record to the highest quality file format your gear can record at, then if needed render to mp3.

rraud, Being off by half frame is fine for me. I just need to synch the tracks so they don't look like kung-fu music videos. I'm sure the higher you get in the professional level the more sensitive timing becomes. (;