Can you merge clips to the length of the shortest clip?

Question

When I'm working with a sound recordist at an event he usually just keeps the sound rolling for the most part so I end up with several long files. I'm still in the habit of stopping & starting the video for each shot. This causes a problem when I come to merge the clips in Premiere as the resulting clip could be 5 mins of audio with only 10 seconds of video. Is there any way ideally to either force the merged clips to be created to the shorter length of the video rather than the longer audio, or alternatively to trim the actual merged clip itself before editing with it?

Thanks!!!

John V Knowles · Answer

Adobe actually encourages editors to use MULTICAM to combine separate video and audio clips as opposed to Merged Clips which is an older sync method that has many disadvantages. Even if you have one camera angle, the multicam method will still sync your footage and give you an item in the bins like a merged clip. I've used multicams on projects like yours -- a live event with one long audio file and several start/stop video clips -- and they work great. The other good thing about this is that you can open up the multicam sequence and shorten/clip the heads and tails of the audio that you don't need.

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