Thursday, February 09, 2012

Pluraleyes with multiple cameras and separate sound

Recently I have been playing around with using Pluraleyes to synchronise multiple cameras, all containing "scratch" audio, together with sound recorded on a separate solid state audio device. Once again, Pluraleyes worked flawlessly (once I developed a additional stage first) and the fact that it also automatically makes a multi-clip for Final Cut, makes it even better. I will shortly be testing out the new multi-cam and synchronise feature in Final Cut X which might make this method redundant, but here is my workflow for synchronising multiple cameras and separate sound for multiclip editing:

Firstly, transcode footage to both ProRes and ProRes PROXY (this is done as sometimes, depending upon the number of clips, and the power of your machine, Final Cut will struggle with the playback).

Secondly, use Pluraleyes to sync the separate sound to one of the camera angles.

Thirdly, export this as a new Quicktime file (you can use the reference movie option to save disc space).

Now, reimport this file back into Final Cut and use Pluraleyes to sync this file to the remaining camera angles.

Pluraleyes will make a multiclip with all cameras now synchronised.

Once edited, one can use the RECONNECT MEDIA option to relink the edit back to the original ProRes files.