Most Efficient way to Sync Audio and Video

[Luke Hyde]

I'm curious how everyone else syncs their audio and video tracks. I drag and drop all of my cams on the timeline with audio. Then I drag all of my audio tracks from my shotgun, lav and in camera audio onto the track. I then stagger them (pictured), ctrl + A (select all), right click, "syncronize." I then go through and cut off the unusable segments from the head and tail of each take. This way works just fine, I just feel there is a better way, since the only way to use the syncronize function is if each video and audio clip is on its own track. Thanks in advance for taking time to participate in this discussion! 

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

I would just have all them in a bin, select all, create multicam.

Neil

[Luke Hyde]

Thank you, I have recently learned of the multicam functionality in premiere. I will be using it on my next project!

[R Neil Haugen]

It can be confusing a bit, but is very powerful. Look up Jarle Leirpoll's information ...there are some great bits on the Multicam in the long-form doc and Jarle expands further on his wonderful website ...

Adobe Long-form and Episodic Best Practices Guide 

Jarle’s blog expansion of the pdf Multicam section: Premiere Pro Multicam

Neil

[Luke Hyde]

Update: Since your reply I have used multicam for every project that requires multicam (fitting ha!) and audio syncing. But the most I got from this reply is that I also had office max print off the Best Practices Guide and bind it and now a physical copy sits at my desk with me and I reference it weekly. Just wanted to say thank you!

[R Neil Haugen]

There's a lot of very, very solid and useful data in that guide.

Were that their whole documentation for the app as good. But ... sigh.