How do you sync your Audio and Video in premiere pro with multicam?

[Peter Reef]

There has been an old post about it that I cannot reactivate, so I will start a new one.

Using a Premiere Multicam sequence has been recommended in the past to sync audio and video by premiere. I have lots of footage from two different cameras and I need to sync them by waveform. However I cannot see an option to mark the clips as "camera 1" and "camera 2" before syncing. So multicam sometimes stacks up six videos on top of each other although they were shot by the same camera. How can I fix that?

another option:

I tried to put them all in a timeline first - video for every camera on a single track, but when I right click "syncronize" is greyed out. any other option?

I not set the "camera label" in the metadata fields for all of my clips. So I labeled them like "1" and "2" for my cameras, still it stacks up 8 clips on top of each other.

[Sumeet Kumar Choubey]

Hi Peter Reef,

Welcome to the community! Are you using the steps mentioned in this video to sync your clips? Could you please share a screenshot of the Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence window? 

Thanks,

Sumeet

[R Neil Haugen]

You can go into the metadata listing for the files, and give a camera name to each camera. I forgot which exact field to use at the moment, sorry!

But if that is done, it can often track cam 1 and cam 2 and keep them on the same video track. I've seen this demoed by a major user recently.

[PaulMurphy · Accepted solution]

Syncing by waveform does not support separating video tracks using Camera Labels - you can only do this with Timecode.

If you need to flatten your video and audio tracks into a single track, this quick tutorial might help: https://youtu.be/SSV0SPltXzU?si=brYIXM3qTkImhcI0

Additionally, the Clip > Synchronize option only works when clips are stacked vertically on the timeline.

[Peter Reef]

thanks @PaulMurphy . Thats a pity. The problem is that the syncing does not work as expected: It stacks up eight clips of the SAME camera on top of each other although they cannot have been shot at the same time (as they are from the same camera). So syncing is much worse when premiere does not know about the camera when syncing by waveform. If I just collapse these clips I will just override seven clips with another one that has not been synced correctly.