Syncing Audio

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Import all video clips into a single Footage bin and all audio clips into a single Audio bin labeled with the date (no subfolders)
Select all audio and footage clips to be synced
Right click > “Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence”
- In the settings popup:
- Under Synchronize Point, click the audio option
- Under Sequence Preset, leave on automatic
- Check yes on the option to “Move source clip to Processed Clips bin” to help organize
- Under audio leave on Camera 1 and Stereo settings
- Under Camera Names, click Clip Names
- Click OK
The new sequence should now be created in your library
Right click on the sequence and choose “open in timeline”
In the timeline, find the clips that are properly syncing and pull them to a new timeline called “Full Sync”
In the Full Sync timeline, use command+L to unlink from the camera audio and re-link to the HQ audio tracks.
When done syncing, double check that all audio + video clips are accounted for and in sync. Pay special attention for multi camera shoots or clips that may be in the wrong order.

If there are audio and video clips that are not syncing or syncing to the wrong clip, try selecting just that audio and just that video clip in the bin and creating a multi cam sequence with just the clips you know should go together.
If that doesn’t work, you can use timecode from the original video and audio clips to manually sync the clips based on the clips you know are already in sync.
- Use adjustment layers in the Full Sync sequence with timecodes on them to find where each clip stops and starts based on the in-camera timecode for each clip. One timecode should line up with the video timecode, the other with the audio timecode.
- Once you have these two timecodes in sync by matching then to clips you sync with the Multi-Camera Source Sequence process, you can use them to find the start and stop points of the rest of your clips.

Updated on May 20, 2020