Each camera angle or audio track must go into its own specific type of bin. I prefer a keystroke to nudge clips when I’m trying to judge and align sync and PluralEyes 3 provides those.Īs great as PluralEyes 3, is there is a bit of tediousness involved in the original setup when you begin a project. You can click and drag a clip to move sync, but PluralEyes 3 also provides keyboard shortcuts for moving a clip. If something is off, just slide the angle right in the timeline. While PluralEyes 3 syncs accurately, I still prefer to visually check at least a few angles before committing sync to the NLE. You can also play all the audio tracks at the same time to make sure that all angles are in sync.
Just turn on the master audio and click through playback of the video tracks. This is very helpful when you’ve got a single master clip of audio. You can choose which video angle to audition against which audio angle. In addition to the timeline, a new viewing window allows for playback of footage. With the new interface comes a new ability to actually check and slip the sync before exporting back to the NLE. The number is the count of unsynced clips. If you’re working with a lot of angles, then the un-synced count in the project tab will be especially helpful. Red clips in the timeline were unsuccessful and unsynced, and red indicators in the Media Bin mean the same thing.
Green means PluralEyes 3 sees success in syncing and red means it was unable to successfully sync a clip. It looks like someone forgot to turn the camera off.īesides just the waveforms being an indicator of sync, PluralEyes 3 also color-codes the clips after a sync operation has completed. The process isn’t even complete and I can already see that Take 3 might be giving me problems. If you’re syncing something like a music video that has exactly the same audio levels on each clip there’s a strange satisfaction to seeing all the waveforms in sync. But PluralEyes 3 is nice enough to provide some colors to help with that as well. Besides just seeing all the angles after syncing, the display of the waveforms is instant feedback on how successful the syncing operation was.
When syncing is complete the new timeline is then basically a sync map that shows exactly what you’re going to have to work with when you move back to the NLE, provided you don’t want a multicam-type grouped clip (but why would you not want that?). But now that I can watch and keep tabs on what is happening, I feel much more connected to the syncing process and know exactly what to expect as it occurs. It’s fascinating to watch and I wouldn’t have thought it was really necessary for the editor to see exactly what is happening, as I’ve run many a sync operation through the old PluralEyes and never been able to watch it sync. When the Synchronize button is pressed, you see the program go to work as the waveforms begin to slide around in the timeline and little arrows pop up and go away to show exactly where PluralEyes 3 is working at any given point. When angles are added for syncing, their waveforms are drawn in the timeline area. It’s not a place to do any editing but rather a place to visualize all your camera angles and audio tracks. The most noticeable feature in the new PluralEyes 3 interface is definitely the large timeline window. And think of PluralEyes 3 as the perfect tool for that step. Think of syncing as an entirely separate step in the post-production process. You don’t even have to open your favorite NLE before going to work syncing camera angles. Where early versions were just a small import/export window (all setup was done in the non-linear editor), PluralEyes 3 is a one-stop-shop for all syncing. If you don’t know anything about PluralEyes 3, you should first know that it differs greatly from previous versions. And even version 3 has now seen a few updates (the program is now at v3.1.1) that added some great functionality.
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The product saw a big upgrade with version 3. Automatically syncing multiple cameras and audio tracks, it might be one of the single most useful technologies to ever come along in post-production. If you follow post-production news at all, then you’re probably aware of (and may have even tried out) Red Giant's PluralEyes 3. A Top-Notch Sync Tool Gets Even Better with a New Music Video Workflow
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