could not synchronize one or more clips PP 13.1

[Joseph from Austin]

I've used Vegas for years, and decided to give Premiere Pro another go, and happened to notice a trial was available.  One of the things I was looking forward to, is having integrated clip sync.  I took two shots, one from a Sony A6500 and the other from a Panasonic GX8.  Both in 2160/24.  Used audio to sync, which had a loud clap on both camera tracks.  I get the following error:

could not synchronize one or more clips because a match could not be found.

Now I know this has been posted before.  But I have tried every suggestion I can find.  Funnily enough, I own Pluraleyes, which was a must for Vegas.  Clips sync up perfectly. 

PPro 13.1 Wintel 10

[Peter John Studios]

Thanks 

That's where my problem was!

[enrique23922965hvdh]

How can I do that? I have to export the audio and then import it? or can I do it in Premiere?

[sarapia777]

I edit my audio in Audacity, export it as an MP3 and then import it into my premiere project. I just simply grab more of the clip than I want, export it to my audacity folder and then import it from there into premiere.

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[Baffy19]

I do not advise you to export audio in the format .MP3 Premiere is not friendly with this type of files. This has been known for a long time. But I didn't take that into account this time. Just yesterday I ran into an unexpected problem of voice acting saved in .MP3. For several days everything was fine, but yesterday the voice-over file was broken and stopped being displayed on the timeline. As soon as I recoded the file, a replacement was made in the project and everything began to be read and reproduced normally. Therefore, my advice to you, use only .WAV, which works fine and does not cause playback problems, reads signals correctly and does not conflict with Premiere.

[sarapia777]

Thank you for that information. So far, I have not had any problems with the MP3 files behaving the way you describe. Are not wav files huge?

Sara Piazza

[Baffy19]

They are larger in size, but not so much as to bypass them. Format .Wav is uncompressed and provides excellent quality and is the standard in the sound and film industry. Keep in mind.

[Baffy19]

It's the same if we used a non-H.264 mounting codec with the ProRes/Dnxhd/Cineform mounting codec. That's about the analogy with .MP3 and .Wav

[sarapia777]

Good to know.

Sara Piazza

[R Neil Haugen]

If you're talking about changing the basic gain level, yes that's easily done within Premiere. Either on a timeline or in the Project panel. With a clip selected either place, tap the G key, you get the Gain dialog. Do something like set max peaks to -12dB or so.

Neil