Premiere Pro audio/video sync

[kippard]

Two camera DV shoot, any easy way to sync up the audio/video?

[guns1inger]

Haven't used Premiere for multi-camera, but in Vegas I just put the clip sin separate timelines and line then up using a mixture of visual and audio cues. I find the peaks from the audio tracks very helpful for this. After it gets close it is a matter of zooming and shifting and listening until it is aligned.

[kimco52]

Yes, it is easy with Premiere Pro CS2+. They have multicam editing. I am not where my computer is right now so I can't give you exact instructions. However, you can get them by clicking on Help, Index, multicam.........

Basically, you bring each clip (from each camera/tape) into the preview window and find the moment that you use for syncing..... an audio or visual cue and you set a marker (next unmarked) to that point in each clip. Then yo bring both down to the timeline, one in Video 1, the other in video 2. Select both tracks, right click on the selection, click on synchronize to marker and it will automatically sync those two. Those would be in, say, sequence 1. Create a new sequence (sequence 2) and then drag sequence 1 into sequence 2. Click on multicam and you are ready. It makes a multicam window that shows both clips at the same time. You can play and click on each one as you want to change from one to the other. It creates the edits on the sequence 2 timeline. When done, you go to the timeline and add transitions/trimming, etc.

When I get off work and go home, I can detail it better with it in front of me. In the meantime, there is a tutorial that explains it in much more detail: http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=36989

[kimco52]

Basically, when you have a clip in the source monitor (on the left) move the current time indicator to the point where you will sync both clips. Then right click the current time indicator and choose set clip marker to the next available Numbered. Do that for each clip. You can have up to 4 clips.
1. Drag each clip to it's own track on the timeline. Position does not matter.
2. Use the selection tool (arrow) and drag it across the clips in the timeline window to select them.
3. Click on "Clip"- "Synchronize" - Numbered Clip Marker(in the dialogue box) and click on OK.
4. That will be in a numbered sequence in the project window. Create a new sequence (File-New-Sequence) which will have a new number. The timeline should switch to that new sequence number.
5. Drag "sequence 1" from the project window to the video 1 track on the timeline of the new sequence(2), which should be empty until you put that sequence on it.
6. Select the sequence 1 clip on the timeline and click on "Clip - Multi camera - enable" Or right click on that clip and select Multicamera.
7. Click on the arrow on the upper right corner of the program monitor menu and choose Multi-camera Monitor. It should open a new monitor window with both cameras and the program monitor in one.

Click on play there and you can switch between them by clicking, arrowing...

That is basically it. You can do it by real time switching or going to a point and selecting a camera. Then put transitions and other editing (titles, etc.) over that as normal.

For a more descriptive short explanation, go to:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/help.html?content=WS46E582DE-6E71-4963...F9C5F10D1.html
Embedded in that document are links to different sections explaining how to do each stage. That is the document I learned from.

[kippard]

Lovely. Thanks!