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.

simonjpearce04@gmail.com · Answer

Hi, I object to your suggestion that I am being miserable. I'm just trying to get involved in the Adobe community and wasn't really sure where to post. I thought I was posting to a guy called Kevin who seemed open to suggestions on how to improve Premiere but instead I got your unfriendly reply suggesting someone else could help.

Whilst I am aware of shortcuts to my current workflow, I think you miss the point of what I was saying.

It sounds like this community isn't as open as I hoped it would be.

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