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June 19, 2024
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Moving from PluralEyes to Premiere Pro Create Multi-Cam Sequence Workflow

  • June 19, 2024
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I used PluralEyes for years and had my workflow down pat. When it stopped working – I started trying to use Premiere Pro’s “Create Multi-Cam Sequence” feature. It does not seem at all intuitive. With PaluralEyes – I’d put everything in a timeline, synch it, nest the video, change the sequence settings, scale the video clips, choose the correct audio track, and start editing. I must be missing something because Premiere’s sync is just not that easy to get set up. Most of my projects are 3 hours of footage with 3 cameras. The first thing is that every time I try I get a “could not synchronize one or more clips in the current selection because a match could not be found” error. It doesn’t show which clip is the issue. There’s no helpful info on how to get passed that. But by selecting the clips in different ways I can usually get it to create the multicam sequences. But sometimes it numbers them say 1-7 and then there’s an extra one called ACAM and then there are usually some clips left over that weren’t processed. I drag the multicam sequences into a timeline. Great. But then I see no way to choose which camera’s audio track you want it to use anywhere along the process so far. It always chooses camera 1. My main audio is always on camera three. So I have to double-click on each multicam sequence from the timeline, go in, and mute/unmute the right camera. Then I have the sequence settings to deal with. I shoot in 4k but edit and output in 1080. I edit in 1080 because I like knowing how far I can punch in on shots and this is easy to see by doing it this way. So then – I have to again double-click each multicam sequence, and change the percentage of the video clips to 50% so that they appear full frame in the timeline I’m editing with. This all seems a bit complicated. I know I must be missing something but I haven’t found any tutorials that address large projects. I miss Pluraleyes right now = Any suggestions are welcome!

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Community Expert
July 2, 2024

PluralEyes (2023.0) is still working fine on my side (latest PPro stable and Beta builds, win 10). I have similar projects like yours and I don't recommend PPro built in syncronization at all: PluralEyes way is much better, faster and more organized. Another option would be to use "Syncaila" (another paid software):
https://syncaila.com/

 

Known Participant
July 2, 2024

Thank you. Yes I love PluralEyes - it's fantastic. I just know there will be a day when a mac update will make it unsuable. I tried Syncaila on trial and it wasn't nearly as fast or as good. I wish PPro would make it easier. I loved it when the PE plugin worked and you could do the synch after you'd set up everything in a sequence. Because you're right - the few times that the PPro create multi cam sequence have worked - it creates a mess that has to be reorganized.

Community Expert
June 20, 2024

Hi there,

Here are a few tips that might help:

Clips not Synchronized:
If you check 'Move source clips to Processed Clips bin' when you create your multi-camera source sequences, any clips that aren't added to this bin afterwards are the ones that were unable to be synced. Otherwise, you can also use Premiere's Video and Audio Usage metadata columns to see which clips have been added to a multi-camera source sequence and which haven't. Usually a clip has not been synced because its waveform or timecode does not match any other clips in the selection.

Audio Track Selection:
I made this tutorial to explain the way Premiere selects multi-camera audio.

Scaling Multi-camera Source Sequence:
You should be able to scale your multi-camera source sequence directly in the timeline. If you need to flatten the multi-camera sequence to reference the original clips in the timeline, any scaling will be transferred over.

I use multi-camera pretty extensively in longform projects, so if you have any other questions, let me know.

Cheers,
Paul

Known Participant
July 1, 2024

Hi Paul,

 

Thank you so much for the response - the video is great and I look forward to using your youtube channel as a resource.

 

I made a quick video of my issue. for some reason - it just fails altogether and I get an "audio synch failure" error.

 

Here's a link to a video in dropbox if you have the time.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3j9m9s0twk074ny/synchiussues.mp4?dl=0

 

I can't figure it out!

 

 

 

Known Participant
July 4, 2024

Can I confirm what version of Premiere Pro you're using?


24.5.0 build 57 mostly and I also use the latest beta version. have tried in both with same result.