Synk lock feature is very counter intuitive

Question

I am a professional editor who is transitioning from Avid to Premiere and I am finding the sync lock feature very counter intuitive. If I have a finished edit that I am laying music under then I want to be able to edit that music using the extract function without affecting the rest of the edit so as to match certain sections of the music to the edit.

The obvious way to do this is to turn off the sync locks for the tracks that have my music on allowing independent edits to the music, (as in Avid), but in Premiere it seems that I have to turn ALL the sync locks off for all my other video and audio tracks to allow me to edit my music track independently. This seems extremely labour intensive when turning 2 sync locks off could achieve the same result. The way it is currently set up is no quicker than turning all the track locks on.

Please can you change the sync locks so that turning off any 1 lock will make that track editable independently from all the other tracks.

This would also be useful for editing commentary under sport where the pictures and stadium crowd audio stay sync’d but the commentary can be edited.

PaulMurphy · Accepted Answer

The way Sync Lock works in Premiere is that it protects tracks with Sync Lock turned off from being affected by ripple edits on other tracks.So you're correct. In your case, you'll need to turn Sync Lock off for every track that doesn't have music on it.Turning each one off individually would be labor intensive, but there's a quicker way:Hold Shift and click the Sync Lock icon on a video track. This turns Sync Lock off for all video tracks.Hold Shift and click the Sync Lock icon on an audio track. This turns Sync Lock off for all audio tracks.Turn Sync Lock back on for your music tracks only.

R Neil Haugen · Answer

I hope Paul and Kevin have both explained things to help you … like all of the video post apps, Premiere is at times densely difficult to sort out without a guide, and … the forums are always a bit different (in my experience) than what most of us expect at first.

And all the companies have their own internal processes. If you’re used to one, you naturally expect another to have a similar approach or culture, but au contraire … I work in both Pr and Resolve, and they ain’t even close in “native culture” … yowza.

As only a user, and a practical guy as explained, I try and help others get past that foggy and very frustrating initial expectation so they can get somethng out today. I cannot get any company to do one blessed thing, naturally.

But I can help someone like you get help so you can at least work better in Pr, if not nearly as well as you would prefer.

And there are still a ton of things in “the Avid” that would be freaking nice to have in Pr! So keep pointing them out, maybe we’ll get more …

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