Timecode question

[bsnyder175]

I make guitar videos on YouTube and am looking for a quicker way to sync up all of my video clips to the music track.  Sometimes I end up with 30 video clips that I need to manually time-align to the music track.

Would the following scenario work?

1) as I record video clips, the guitar tracks are simultaniously recorded to Pro Tools, as usual.

2) Each time I record a video clip/guitar track, route the audio from Pro Tools into an external audio recorder.  This external audio recorder is timecode-sycned to my video camera via UltraSync Blue.

3) After all video/guitar recording is complete, time-align the audio-recorded tracks from the external audio recorder, to the music track, using the audio-based time-align function in Premiere

4) Timecode-align the video tracks to the external audio tracks.

In other words, the audio tracks would audio-sync to the music track.  Then the video clips would timecode-sync to the audio tracks.  Lastly, simply delete the externally-recorded audio tracks.  I'm left with video that's automatically time-aligned to the music track.

Overly complicated, but that's all I can come up with.  Would it work?

[EditorPete]

Sounds like you have a good workaround for what you want to achieve.

The only other way I can see syncing your music track to the video that has audio, is using "multi-cam syncing".

Not sure if just audio will work with this workflow.

PO

[bsnyder175]

I've heard of the feature, but haven't used it.  I'll look into it.

Another idea was re-ordering some of the steps in my original thought.

1) Timecode-sync the externally-recorded audio and video clips at the start of the Premiere project

2) link each video with its corresponding autio track together so they move around the timeline together

3) Audio-sync the audio tracks to the music track, thereby moving the video clips to the right spots too.

4) Unlink the video/audio clips and delete the audio clips.

Just writing these down for future reference, when I put these ideas into practice.

[bsnyder175 · Accepted solution]

I found another fix for it that's even easier.  I routed the audio from Pro Tools directly into the external video recorder (Ninja V) with a 3.5mm audio cable.  The Ninja V now captures the audio directly from Pro Tools and then I can just audio-sync the video clips (which are now embedded with the pro tools audio recordings), right to the timeline.

Such a simple fix, and I've been manually time aligning these videos for 15 years...why didn't I think of this earlier? 😐