Audio Sync Doesn't Work - similar audio, "match couldn't be found"

[Orr Ben-Asuli]

Hello everyone!

I have a weird problem. I've been using the Sync tool for a while now and it's always working for me. Before today I actually considered it kind of miraculous - saves a LOT of time (before I knew about it I used to sync manually, it's hell).

Anyways today - first time I'm using it on a new iMac (don't know if it's relevant but it might be so I mention it) - I tried syncing a video clip with an audio file recorded while filming on a neck-mic.

[Note: I know some people have asked a similar question about multi-cam editing. I have to say: this is a regular timeline, one camera and audio recorded while filming.]

After loading it displayed this message:

""Cannot synchronize one or more clips in the current selection because a match could not be found"

I tried messing around to see what's wrong. I noticed that in the sync settings I only have one Channel to choose to Track, I think there should be two of them... right?

I didn't film the video so I checked if it's even matching. Maybe it's really not there. It is.

Anyways, what should I do, I have several videos to sync and doing it manually can multiply my work on this project! hahaha HELP!

[johnnytrigger]

I have this same problem.  I capture my audio via microphones and record in Audition.  Then I bring the resulting mp3 into Premiere and sync with the audio in my video file.  This works perfectly nearly every time.  However, there are a few cases where the sync fails.  When I try to sync manually I notice that I can line up the start point just fine but over time the audio drifts off track.  It's as if they are recorded at different frame/timing rates.  I used Handbrake to convert the video file from Peak to Constant frame rate.  That didn't work either.

I am not sure if the problem is with the quality audio file or the video file with the audio scratch track.  One or the other is someone getting distorted.  I have no clue how to fix it.

Anyone else experience this problem?

[Irisvideo]

yes, i have the same problem.

a match cannot be found when i try to sync, even though it IS matching: i have a camera's built in mic in the clip, and an audio neck-mic recording in a wav file, but when i try to sync - no match is made, this is terrible news.

solutions?

[R Neil Haugen]

Go to both on the timeline and set similar audio gain ... like right-click/ Audio gain, normalize all peaks to -6dB. Then try and sync them.

I get this if one track is significantly lower in volume than the other.

Neil

[Irisvideo · Accepted solution]

Hey, thanks for your response,

the audio levels are similar,

however in the syncing options "track channel" was not set to "mixdown".

changing it to "mixdown" made the sync work.

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