What's the workflow for syncing jam synced cameras?

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August 15, 2017
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So lets say I have a multi day 2-3 camera shoot (no external audio) and all cameras have been jam synced, how do I get Premiere to read the TC and create a full day stringout that's not a multicam clip? I've been researching the issue for a while and I find it shocking there's no clear way to do this like you can in Avid or FCP7. Basically just want every angle on it's own track...

Most answers I'm finding are assuming that I'm syncing individual video clips to external audio.... but I'm dealing with hundreds of clips per day. We were using plural eyes, but the new version is just so, so terrible.... and I'm trying to move away from waveform syncing since our audio is never usually crystal clear enough for it to work properly.

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excited_Genie16B8

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There's no way to get PP to lay out your full day into one sequence automatically. You can only sync up matching clips, one group at a time.

brian704

Inspiring

You could try looking at Tentacle sync. It is a German company that makes terrific little TC generator/sync units. They have a program that does exactly what you want. I believe the software is free. It is unfortunately a Mac only program.

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cagut12312Author

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Tentacle sync did a really good job, but unfortunately it doesn't play well with our MAM and there's no way to import XML... so that's a no go. I eventually just went in and filled in the Camera Angle metadata field for each clip, selected the entire shooting day in the project panel, and then created a single source multicam sequence and selected Camera Angle for track assignments. Then all I had to do was just right click on the multicam clip, open in timeline, and just dumped the contents into a new sequence.

Works fairly well.... just gotta figure out a way to batch edit the Camera Angle metadata field since doing them one at a time is pretty annoying.

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Meg The Dog

Inspiring

cagut12312 wrote
Basically just want every angle on it's own track...

Not sure I understand - but you want a timeline with Cam 1 on track V1, Cam 2 on V2, Cam 3 on V3, all synced via common timecode - for example?

Drop the three associated camera files to the timeline, select them, right click on the selected group, choose synchronize from the drop down menu and choose timecode. They should all sync up.

MtD

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cagut12312Author

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Sorry if I was unclear, but yes that's exactly what I'm trying to do.

But can premiere sync more than 2 clips at once? Anytime I select more than 2 the synchronize option is greyed out. The cameras are also turning on and off constantly so it's not super practical to manually try to sync each clip since there's usually hundreds.

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