Hey. My name is Matt Johnson, and if you have a lot of audio
and video clips that you need to sync together,
like if you're editing a wedding ceremony, for example,
and you have a lot of camera angles and microphones
all recorded from different cameras and recorders,
but you need them all to sync together in one timeline.
Here's two ways to do it fast in Adobe Premiere Pro, first open up Premiere Pro
and import your audio and footage, which I've already done here.
And I have them on all these different bins like Groom
Mike, Efficient like left Tripod, right Tripod.
Next, if you've sync audio and video in the past, you know that
you would traditionally drag your audio and video clips over here to the timeline,
putting them all on their own tracks, and then you could select them.
All right, click and select synchronize, make sure it's selected audio press.
OK, and then Premiere is going to process and sync up these audio and video tracks.
So this just took a while and only had two audio tracks and one video track.
And typically for a wedding ceremony you're going to have a lot more.
And this can get super time consuming.
So here's a faster way to do things.
We can close this test sequence now and then over
here, let's just make a new folder in the footage folder.
I'm going to select
all of these audio and video clips that I have from the wedding ceremony.
Press Control C on PC or Command C on Mac.
Let's go to Ceremony Bean and Press Command V or Control V,
and that is going to paste all of these audio and video clips into the same bean.
It doesn't matter how they're label,
it doesn't matter where they come from, just put them all into this bean.
Then with them all selected, right click and select create
multi-camera source sequence way mats.
Are we making a multi-camera sequence?
Yes. Actually, this is a little shortcut to sync up everything
but this is not a multicam tutorial, so do not freak out.
We are not changing the title of this tutorial halfway through.
Now, most of these settings are good by default.
You can leave this labeled multi-cam ceremony.
Just make sure that for synchronized point audio is selected.
So Premiere will be analyzing the audio from your audio files.
And then down here under the audio section, make sure
that for sequence settings you have this set to all cameras.
You do not want to set to camera one because
then it's only going to focus on the audio from camera one.
You want to focus on the audio from all of your cameras for audio channels preset.
You can leave that on automatic, leave it on numerous cameras
and let's press OK premieres then going to analyze all of these clips.
And depending on how many clips you have, this could take a little bit.
So if you have a whole wedding ceremony with a ton of different angles and audio,
go have a stretch walk around a bit, then come back and it should be done.
Now, if a warning pops up, you're saying audio synchronized failure.
Do not worry.
We're going to cover how to fix this in just a bit.
Over here on the left
you're going to see that you end up with this new multi-cam ceremony sequence.
And let's not leave it in this footage folder.
Let's drag it down here to the sequences folder.
So that way things are a little bit cleaner next step,
I want you to make a new sequence, so I'm going to select the sequences folder.
So the new sequence appears there.
I'm going to press control in on PC or command in on Mac.
And it's going to open up the new sequence dialog box.
And then I have a custom sequence here that is in 4K
at 24 frames per second because that matches up
with frame rate and resolution that I want for my ceremony.
And then let's call this sequence ceremony and press.
OK, now here is the important step here in this new sequence that you've created.
There's this left button that says insert and overwrite sequences as nests
or individual clips.
Make sure that this is unselected and is not lit up blue with this de selected.
Then let's go over here to this new multi-cam ceremony sequence
that we made and drag it over here to this sequence.
Let go and check it out.
There is all of our synchronized audio
and video files put together on the timeline.
Now, this does look a little cluttered we have an extra blank track up here,
but I will warn you that this is just because I'm only synching to video tracks.
If you have a lot of video clips that you're trying to synchronize
all at once from a complete wedding ceremony, you could end up with 30
plus different video tracks with different video clips on all them.
It can look super messy.
So let's clean up this timeline with this sequence selected,
go up to sequence in the top left and go down to simplify sequence.
You can then leave this sequence name, we'll call it ceremony simplified.
Make sure that you check the close vertical gaps on video tracks,
and then you can also go on here and make sure that you select remove
from both and select empty tracks and then press OK, check it out.
Premiere has automatically deleted that empty track,
and if you have a lot of different video tracks, Premiere is going to compress them
all down into just a few video tracks, which is going to make things
so much cleaner and easier and quicker for you to edit.
Of course, the audio is still going to be on its own individual tracks,
but I'm going to explain an alternative way for I to fix this in a moment.
For now, though, let's address what to do if Premiere gives you that warning
saying that it cannot sync everything after you create this new sequence.
If it does that, it's most likely because some of your sources of audio
were only recording in mono instead of stereo.
So to fix that, you have to find out which audio track did not automatically sync.
And unfortunately, Premiere is not going to tell you.
Instead, I found it best to right click on the track, select, reveal and project.
And then you can go through and you can figure out
which one of these tracks is currently not available.
So I can tell that is these two audio tracks that say 000 that did not sync.
So I'm going to select both of them right click go to modify audio channels.
And then here you can see that these are recorded in the mono format.
And maybe the issue is that Premiere wants them to be in stereo
to match up with the other audio tracks.
So to change that, you can change this to stereo here and then you can press.
OK, finally, to complete the thinking up of these two tracks, you can select
each of them individually, drag them down to the timeline under their own tracks.
Press Control A on PC or Command A on Mac, right click and select synchronize.
Make sure that for these synchronize points audio is selected and press OK
and from here will then analyze these audio and video tracks again and voila, it
will then sync up these audio tracks that it did not find initially.
This is a great way to fix things.
I really wish the premiere had a way to tell you which specific tracks
were unable to sync because digging through to find them can really be a pain.
In addition, while Premiere will sync all of your audio and video,
it doesn't do anything to fix audio drift either.
So if you run into an issue where your video and audio get out of sync over
time, with this method, you have to do things manually.
But what if you don't want to have to fix your audio drift manually?
What if you want to guarantee that all of your video and audio file sync
and any audio drift is taken care of?
Well, here's the second technique for sinking your audio and video and spoiler.
This is the one that I prefer to use, but I will warn you, it does cost money.
Unlike the freeway that I just showed you to sync up your audio and video.
The second way you're going to want to download a program called Pluralized,
which at the time of making this video currently costs 299 bucks.
I'll also warn you that is a bit difficult
to find the one time payment option for this program.
So I'm going to link down below to specifically
where you should go to make sure that you get the perpetual license version
that does not require a monthly subscription.
Also, for the sake of ethics,
I want you to know that this video isn't sponsored by Pluralized.
They don't even know that I'm making it next.
Once you have purchased and installed Pluralized,
here's the first thing that I love about this program.
Open it up and drag all of your audio and video clips into it.
It does not matter how many clips you have,
it does not matter how you film them.
We're just going to go in here, select all of these audio video clips
and drag them into plural eyes.
Just like that.
Pluralized is going to immediately begin analyzing all these clips,
and then once they're analyzed, you can press synchronize.
Pluralized will immediately begin synchronizing all of your audio
and video clips and apply an audio sync drift
correction that will prevent them from getting out of sync over time.
Then press export timeline and you can select where you want to save
this XML file.
In this case, I'll call it ceremony
and I'll save it into a Pluralized folder next to my project file.
Press export.
And then Pluralized is going to spit out this beautiful ceremony
XML file back in Premiere.
I'm going to drag this ceremony, that XML file down to the sequences folder
that we made.
And here in this ceremony folder that Pluralized made, you're going to have
this new sync sequence, double click on that to open up and check it out.
Pluralized has synchronized all of the audio and video tracks
onto their own tracks, and everything is already neatly organized
and ready for you to edit in this case, there's these audio tracks
at the beginning that it sync together but didn't have
any video clips to sync with it, so it didn't need to do that.
And then also in Pluralized, you'll notice here that for this 004 clip
it was in red, which means that it failed to synchronize.
As Pluralized said, thankfully, Pluralized just puts that at the end.
And so this audio tracks right here.
And then if I want to try to manually sync it or find out where it is,
I can then bring it back over
and try to find a place for it wherever it needs to go with the ceremony.
And there you have it.
This second technique to synchronize your audio and video files
will cost you a bit, but you only have to buy pluralized ones.
And considering this is a bit easier and faster than using Premier's
built in tools,
especially if you have a lot of audio and video clips to synchronize,
or if you oftentimes find yourself dealing with audio drift,
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