I really hope this helps you save time syncing a days worth of footage if your team was shooting to timecode. What else would you like me to cover in Premiere Pro?
What if i have a music group, with different video and audio sources (like a quartet recorded in different parts of the world, based on a 'click' track, to have a 'acappella app' result)
I cannot thank you enough for this, I spent the last to days trying to sync several camera angles to the sound and it took me forever - this makes everything so much easier! Thank you so much
Found you on reddit a couple of months back. I mainly work (Edit and Assist) on Avid and occasionally use premiere. Your videos have been a god send. so well informed and really clearly explained. So good, thank you!
This is fantastic Javier - thank you so much. I was able to sync a whole day's 2-camera shoot with separate audio in the time it took me to watch this video. You're a life-saver!
I'm just starting a new Documentary that's supposed to be veryyyyyy long shooting and editing. After 3 days of shooting, You helped me to improve the workflow A LOT !!!!! I filmed 1 hour long meetings with One camera but lots of cut, and my first multicam sequence had 55 video tracks... Merci from France.
Oh man, you saved me! I just started working on a project with an extremely tight deadline and needed to find out a quick way to sync multi-cam video + audio to get started. You literally SAVED my ass and I am SO thankful for this ace tutorial!!!! I just subscribed to your channel and sending you BILLIONS of good karma points your way
I wish I could give this video a like every time I come back to watch it to remind myself haha! This is such a lifesaver, especially now that I'm jamming timecode on my two cameras from my MixPre 10 II. Such a time-saver!
Thanks for the super informative tutorial! Two questions: 1) What do you normally do after you’ve synced the footage in your timeline as a next step to editing? Do you link or even nest all the video and audio clips so they can be accessed from the project window like “normal” clips or do you edit by selecting clips from the timeline? And 2) What do you usually do if you find a drift? Select all the audio clips from where the drift began and adjust those all slightly to the left or right in the timeline? Thanks!
Thanks, bro, much appreciated. I didn't realize is that simple to sync all the videos. The best tutorial of how to sync video and Audio on RUclips, clear and useful.
Best video ever! I'm somewhat new to video editing and such, but this was a life saver. I didn't know how to drop the file from the Media Broswer to the Project bin, but after that, It's gold! I'm using the AtomX with Ultraone sync, and it's AMAZING. Thanks a ton!!! Can't wait to buy more cameras to utilize this more! Maybe you can get with Atomos to help them make a video for future people like myself. I may be wrong, but I think time code is the future for even smart phone users. Plural eyes is ok, but not for a super busy one man band trying to pump out high end quality like myself Thanks again! Saved my life!
I had almost given up on Premiere's multicam because it wasn't behaving like the old FCP7 method, which was completely, mindlessly easy. This makes total sense. Thanks for shining a light on a ridiculously simple method. Wish I had seen this years ago.
Love this video. It's helped me so much in the past. Thank you. Question, has anybody recently experienced Premiere crashing when you try and assign labels to large batches of clips? This has only happened to me very recently.
thank you so much for this video!!!! I just did DIT on a project and then was asked to do the editing and I had never used timecode before. I was freaking out when I first tried to sync everything because my timeline was such a mess. This saved me HOURS of clean up!!!!!
Wow Thank you so much!! I got 2 cameras with no audio and was trying to basically get a string out with the multicam of each camera but it wasn't working. This solved everything!
LIKE A BOSS! Great comprehensive no-nonsense run-through of exactly what I will need to do next week. Of course, I will have to re-watch at 1/4 speed LOLOL. Thank you for posting. Liked and subscribed.
Thanks you Javier. Ive been tinkering with my multicam footage for years trying to find a more streamlined process for stacking cameras in premiere. This method is great and exactly what i was looking for. If you are still doing AE work let me know and ill hire you.
Great tip! Thank you! Your videos are always super helpful. As a veteran editor who started on AVID back in the day, I'm still finding great nuggets of info here.
As I enter the world of video editing, I've been learning that EVERY aspect of it has endless rabbit holes. It'd be safe to say that no single person will ever master it all! PS: Thanks, Javier for the video! I'm trying to take in all I can!
QUESTION: How do you get the timecode synced to individual clips? Example I want to open up a clip, with the synced audio, and preview it in the source monitor and then make in and out points and then put it in the timeline. With the method you just showed, I don't even know where to begin. Can you give some advice on this? Thanks for what you do!!!! Seriously, THANK YOU!
This was really helpful. I have watched another couple of videos but this one really got things working for me. Thank you very much for your help Javier!
Robin Lefever awesome Robin, once you get to the production level of syncing timecode to other cams things can get way more complicated, glad this was straightforward enough that you got your answers.
Thanks for the awesome quality content. Unfortunately I get stuck at the Camera Label part. It is greyed out so I cannot enter a label into the field. The XMP metadata heading states 'Not Editable' for my DJI MP4 footage. When I import a GOPRO MP4 file it allows me to add metadata. Does anyone have some advice?
So helpful!! Can you let me know why I cannot add effects to the audio clips in the multicam sequence? I want to fill right with left but it won't let me add effects.
@@JavierMercedes I figured out a fix. Before making my multi-cam sequence, I needed to modify the audio from every clip to be interpreted as stereo and not mono. Thanks so much for the quick response, though!
I have a question. I just did this but forgot to hit record on the track e timecode thing until later into the shooting day and when I did this as in video it failed to bring in the audio I did capture . I had to drag it in manually and line it up once dragged onto timeline. Also how to get more than four cameras on the time line, mine seems to bring over three ie A1,A2,A3 but no more how to add a line to A and V those blue squares?
Is there a way to see which camera was used ie I use different gopros 9, 10,11 in metadata ? Also if had same camera how to know which is which camera?
Ohhmaahhgawwwdd... you, my friend, are helping me live my life in abundance. Thank you for sharing your tips. I'm going to try this out now... Have a wonderful rest of your week! :) -Kat ***Update: Your method is genius! Unfortunately, it looks like timecode was off for the whole day's shoot. Oh well, at least I know how to do this for future projects. Thanks again!
THANKS A MILLION THIS IS PROBABLE GOING TO CHANGE MY EDITING LIFE!!! LOL I spend so much time syncing shit to slates i absolutely hate wasting hours doing that
Hello, I want to ask something, for example, there are 100 clips in the camera, there is a 1 minute difference between the video and the audio file. In the "avid" program, we can select -1 minute for 100 clips and combine them all with a single button, but I could not find this in Premiere. If you know a way, can you help me, thank you. .
Love the video! This worked perfectly for me the first time. But on another day of footage for the same project it says the metadata isn't editable to name the camera label. Any idea what could be causing that?
Click the 3 lines next to the Metadata window in Premiere, and select "Metadata Display...", then look for Camera Label and make sure it's enabled with the tick box. You could also just enable the checkbox for all Dynamic Media metadata
This helped me understand a bunch, but what if you didn't know to use timecode during video capture? How can I efficiently sync an A cam, B Cam (iphone), and external audio (separate mix) to a multicam?
Thanks for that, but how am I supposed to edit with a sequence already full of single clips. Cant i sync Audio with Video so I have it look just like source clips but with linked audio?
How do you produce a synchronized timecode on 3 cameras? What if Im using GoPros or simply i dont have a synchronizer hardware? I was thinking using the world clock by default and use that metadata from the media files to synchronize on the sequence timeline. Is that possible?
Thank you man I appreciate it!!! Everything worked but I don’t know what I did wrong I used 3 camera setup but only 2 tracks opened, how do I fix this issue🙏🏻
Hello Javier, I have a specific question to ask about Live performances recorded using Timecode and Syncing cameras with the live recording, where can I send this question to ?
Doesn`t work for me. We shot with an ARRI Alexa, FX6 and Audiorecorder, all 3 synched on timecode. For the FX6 files, labelling all clips at once worked, but not for the ARRI files. Had to do them one after another. When I try to create the multicam timeline only a few clips are synched, but not the FX6 files.
Hey Javier, how do I get the original timecode recorded with my sony xdcam to show in premiere pro? I made rough notes using the timecode displayed on the camera during recording and now I cannot see timecodes in premiere. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you.
Loved the video Javier, super easy to follow. If we aren’t super PRO with a RED or even DSLR can amateurs do this with say two GoPro’s or a GoPro and an iPhone? Do they have the ability to set the time to do something like this? I did a quick google search and you get a lot of junk results so I thought I’d ask you. Thanks!
Yes and No, the only way to pull something off like that (and what I have done in the past) is to set your timecode on your video device to the time of day, Or "reset" all the timecodes on all your devices at around the same time to 00:00:00:00. You won't have perfect sync but at least you will be within reason. You could also sync one clip from one device and see how many hours:minutes:seconds:frames it is off from the other clips and bulk move every clip after that accordingly. Organization to timecode is perfect when it just works and can get messy when things are not setup correctly. With a cell phone I'm not sure. A lot of cell phones will shoot with a variable bit rate sometimes making it tough to sync.
I really hope this helps you save time syncing a days worth of footage if your team was shooting to timecode. What else would you like me to cover in Premiere Pro?
What if i have a music group, with different video and audio sources (like a quartet recorded in different parts of the world, based on a 'click' track, to have a 'acappella app' result)
I knew how to do that on Final Cut 7.... your video helped me a lot! Cheers
Could you go over a way to export all of these takes after they are lined up to timecode in premiere? Thank you!
Thank you Javier, I got the solution in this video.
Wow. Thanks a lot, man!
I cannot thank you enough for this, I spent the last to days trying to sync several camera angles to the sound and it took me forever - this makes everything so much easier! Thank you so much
I'm so happy, I'm literally about to cry haha. Thank you so much for this fantastic explanation. Really helped me!
Found you on reddit a couple of months back. I mainly work (Edit and Assist) on Avid and occasionally use premiere. Your videos have been a god send. so well informed and really clearly explained. So good, thank you!
This is the best, most concise, timecode tutorial in RUclips for prem users. Thank you so much.
This is fantastic Javier - thank you so much. I was able to sync a whole day's 2-camera shoot with separate audio in the time it took me to watch this video. You're a life-saver!
Thank you for your videos. I often come across your videos when I am stuck in PR and your solutions are clear and concise.
Don't normally leave comments but this really is exactly what I was looking for, thank you for taking the time to put this together
I'm just starting a new Documentary that's supposed to be veryyyyyy long shooting and editing. After 3 days of shooting, You helped me to improve the workflow A LOT !!!!!
I filmed 1 hour long meetings with One camera but lots of cut, and my first multicam sequence had 55 video tracks...
Merci from France.
This saved me so much stress and time. I had no idea how to even approach syncing the audio before this. THANK YOU!!!
Oh man, you saved me! I just started working on a project with an extremely tight deadline and needed to find out a quick way to sync multi-cam video + audio to get started. You literally SAVED my ass and I am SO thankful for this ace tutorial!!!!
I just subscribed to your channel and sending you BILLIONS of good karma points your way
I wish I could give this video a like every time I come back to watch it to remind myself haha! This is such a lifesaver, especially now that I'm jamming timecode on my two cameras from my MixPre 10 II. Such a time-saver!
Thanks for the super informative tutorial! Two questions: 1) What do you normally do after you’ve synced the footage in your timeline as a next step to editing? Do you link or even nest all the video and audio clips so they can be accessed from the project window like “normal” clips or do you edit by selecting clips from the timeline? And 2) What do you usually do if you find a drift? Select all the audio clips from where the drift began and adjust those all slightly to the left or right in the timeline? Thanks!
Killer tutorial, both content and presentation, nice work!
Glad I could help Per!
Thanks, bro, much appreciated. I didn't realize is that simple to sync all the videos. The best tutorial of how to sync video and Audio on RUclips, clear and useful.
That was some seriously concentrated knowledge you just dropped! Amazing!
You just saved me HOURS in my workflow Javier Mercedes.
Best video ever! I'm somewhat new to video editing and such, but this was a life saver. I didn't know how to drop the file from the Media Broswer to the Project bin, but after that, It's gold! I'm using the AtomX with Ultraone sync, and it's AMAZING. Thanks a ton!!! Can't wait to buy more cameras to utilize this more! Maybe you can get with Atomos to help them make a video for future people like myself. I may be wrong, but I think time code is the future for even smart phone users. Plural eyes is ok, but not for a super busy one man band trying to pump out high end quality like myself Thanks again! Saved my life!
Best Premiere Video of all time. True hero.
Thank you so much!! Tomorrow a start as an editor for TV so I really needed this tutorial. Thank you Javier!
THANK YOU!!!! This saved me hours and is the PROPER way to do this for a project that has many editors touching the project. Great work!
Exactly the demographic of editor I was looking to reach. glad I could help!
I had almost given up on Premiere's multicam because it wasn't behaving like the old FCP7 method, which was completely, mindlessly easy. This makes total sense. Thanks for shining a light on a ridiculously simple method. Wish I had seen this years ago.
I spent 4 hours before I found your lesson to build one camera by timecode! Thank you very much!
Love this video. It's helped me so much in the past. Thank you.
Question, has anybody recently experienced Premiere crashing when you try and assign labels to large batches of clips?
This has only happened to me very recently.
Do you have any idea what could be happening with the error of when in the metadata window?
thank you so much for this video!!!! I just did DIT on a project and then was asked to do the editing and I had never used timecode before. I was freaking out when I first tried to sync everything because my timeline was such a mess. This saved me HOURS of clean up!!!!!
Just the person I made it for then, I have been there, glad I could save you a day of syncing!
Man You deserve more subscribers ❤️
Deserve a thumbs up for that clear and useful tutorial. Thanks
If I could like this twice I would. Excellent video.
Wow Thank you so much!! I got 2 cameras with no audio and was trying to basically get a string out with the multicam of each camera but it wasn't working. This solved everything!
This was wonderful for streamlining a 6 camera shoot- thank you so much!
This is sooo helpful, especially for passing of to the team or Senior Editor. Thank you So much again!
My man, tysm! Don't sleep on the power of metadata.
Finally moving on from pluraleyes, I think. This is great. Very helpful!
LIKE A BOSS! Great comprehensive no-nonsense run-through of exactly what I will need to do next week. Of course, I will have to re-watch at 1/4 speed LOLOL. Thank you for posting. Liked and subscribed.
What a gangster. Saved my life.
HUGE thanks for this video! Absolutely killer tutorial, thanks for all your help! This has saved me hundreds of hours...
just the type of person I made the video for, glad it was helpful!
YES! This is awesome. thank you so much for this tutorial!
Thanks you Javier. Ive been tinkering with my multicam footage for years trying to find a more streamlined process for stacking cameras in premiere. This method is great and exactly what i was looking for. If you are still doing AE work let me know and ill hire you.
I seem to have followed this and created the multicam sequence with 3 gopros. Is there another video that shows how to edit the sequence?
Thanks!
Great tip! Thank you! Your videos are always super helpful. As a veteran editor who started on AVID back in the day, I'm still finding great nuggets of info here.
That’s awesome to here from someone has been around the block, glad I can still provide value!
Aaand thank you for sending me down a hole learning about Timecode...
Kyle Meshna here to peak your curiosity 😁, thanks for watching Kyle!
Kyle Meshna 100% doing the same now...
As I enter the world of video editing, I've been learning that EVERY aspect of it has endless rabbit holes. It'd be safe to say that no single person will ever master it all!
PS: Thanks, Javier for the video! I'm trying to take in all I can!
QUESTION: How do you get the timecode synced to individual clips? Example I want to open up a clip, with the synced audio, and preview it in the source monitor and then make in and out points and then put it in the timeline. With the method you just showed, I don't even know where to begin. Can you give some advice on this? Thanks for what you do!!!! Seriously, THANK YOU!
This was really helpful. I have watched another couple of videos but this one really got things working for me. Thank you very much for your help Javier!
Robin Lefever awesome Robin, once you get to the production level of syncing timecode to other cams things can get way more complicated, glad this was straightforward enough that you got your answers.
You really SAVE ME today! Thank you so much!
How did you remove the subfolders so elegantly? Looks like there a key you can press along with the mouse klicks? If so could you share what it is?
That thumbnail is next level :D
Thanks Adam!
Tis still works and was extremely helpful. Thanks!
Hello, good work as usual. Question: Did you proxy anything in the timeline for that shoot???? Thanks.
This was super helpful! Thanks buddy!
Man, you saved me a lot of work and hours. THANKS A LOT!
So glad I can help!
This tutorial saved me a full day. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this, a huge timesaver for the project I'm currently editing.
All I can say is Lifesaver!
Does this process still work and make sense if there’s only one single camera?
Damn. Saved me hours of work.
Excellent tutorial, thanks! Liked and subbed, great content!
Amazing tutorial this is killer. Coming from Avid this is just what I was looking for. Subscribed based on this. This is the way. 👍
You saved my ass with this. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
You save me tons of time. Thank you so so much Javier :)
hey, I tried in my full wedding video coverage and it's not working :( do you have any tutorial for other way to sync for other events? thank you!
Thanks for the awesome quality content. Unfortunately I get stuck at the Camera Label part. It is greyed out so I cannot enter a label into the field. The XMP metadata heading states 'Not Editable' for my DJI MP4 footage. When I import a GOPRO MP4 file it allows me to add metadata. Does anyone have some advice?
The same thing is happening to me, for ALL of my media.
Thank you SO MUCH Javier!! This was so so helpful :)
Hey Thanks Javier this thing saved my hours of sitting a#s its really really detailed & thing you shared
So helpful!! Can you let me know why I cannot add effects to the audio clips in the multicam sequence? I want to fill right with left but it won't let me add effects.
You may need to flatten the clip first before adding effects
@@JavierMercedes I figured out a fix. Before making my multi-cam sequence, I needed to modify the audio from every clip to be interpreted as stereo and not mono. Thanks so much for the quick response, though!
Thanks man! Came from Davinci resolve and hate the way Premiere hides simple things like this
I have a question. I just did this but forgot to hit record on the track e timecode thing until later into the shooting day and when I did this as in video it failed to bring in the audio I did capture . I had to drag it in manually and line it up once dragged onto timeline. Also how to get more than four cameras on the time line, mine seems to bring over three ie A1,A2,A3 but no more how to add a line to A and V those blue squares?
Is there a way to see which camera was used ie I use different gopros 9, 10,11 in metadata ?
Also if had same camera how to know which is which camera?
Very helpful video, thanks a lot!
Great Video!!! Super Helpful!
Ohhmaahhgawwwdd... you, my friend, are helping me live my life in abundance. Thank you for sharing your tips. I'm going to try this out now... Have a wonderful rest of your week! :) -Kat ***Update: Your method is genius! Unfortunately, it looks like timecode was off for the whole day's shoot. Oh well, at least I know how to do this for future projects. Thanks again!
So. Dang. Helpful. Thank you sooooooo much!
only one angle is showing up for some reason. the A cam is my canon r5 and the b cam is my iPhone...could that change anything? thanks in advanced!
THANKS A MILLION THIS IS PROBABLE GOING TO CHANGE MY EDITING LIFE!!! LOL I spend so much time syncing shit to slates i absolutely hate wasting hours doing that
Hope it helps save a bunch of time on projects where they do use timecode.
Saved my life. Thank you
This exertion Hella good! Recommended
Hello, I want to ask something, for example, there are 100 clips in the camera, there is a 1 minute difference between the video and the audio file. In the "avid" program, we can select -1 minute for 100 clips and combine them all with a single button, but I could not find this in Premiere. If you know a way, can you help me, thank you. .
Love the video! This worked perfectly for me the first time. But on another day of footage for the same project it says the metadata isn't editable to name the camera label. Any idea what could be causing that?
Click the 3 lines next to the Metadata window in Premiere, and select "Metadata Display...", then look for Camera Label and make sure it's enabled with the tick box. You could also just enable the checkbox for all Dynamic Media metadata
Premiere is dumb and won't let you assign cam label or angle to proxies (when you have offlined the full res)
Hi. My project says
if I multi-select it in 3:11 It's says File Why is that?
Gracias Javier
Super helpful Javier! Thanks.
This helped me understand a bunch, but what if you didn't know to use timecode during video capture? How can I efficiently sync an A cam, B Cam (iphone), and external audio (separate mix) to a multicam?
Love the tutorial! I got a small problem tho, cant seem to change camera label on multiple files only one by one.. Ever had that issue?
🙏🙏🙏 Thank you soooo much, you saved me sooo much time!
awesome, useful, quick! Thanks!
Worked perfect. Thank you!
If you’re missing timecode from a camera that didn’t have it, how do you manage those video files before going to multicam?
Thanks for that, but how am I supposed to edit with a sequence already full of single clips. Cant i sync Audio with Video so I have it look just like source clips but with linked audio?
Very helpful! Thank you!
This was so great. Thank you!
How do you produce a synchronized timecode on 3 cameras? What if Im using GoPros or simply i dont have a synchronizer hardware? I was thinking using the world clock by default and use that metadata from the media files to synchronize on the sequence timeline. Is that possible?
Thank you man I appreciate it!!! Everything worked but I don’t know what I did wrong
I used 3 camera setup but only 2 tracks opened, how do I fix this issue🙏🏻
Hello Javier, I have a specific question to ask about Live performances recorded using Timecode and Syncing cameras with the live recording, where can I send this question to ?
Yes, thank you, incredibly helpful!
Doesn`t work for me. We shot with an ARRI Alexa, FX6 and Audiorecorder, all 3 synched on timecode. For the FX6 files, labelling all clips at once worked, but not for the ARRI files. Had to do them one after another. When I try to create the multicam timeline only a few clips are synched, but not the FX6 files.
Hey Javier, how do I get the original timecode recorded with my sony xdcam to show in premiere pro? I made rough notes using the timecode displayed on the camera during recording and now I cannot see timecodes in premiere. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. Thank you.
Loved the video Javier, super easy to follow. If we aren’t super PRO with a RED or even DSLR can amateurs do this with say two GoPro’s or a GoPro and an iPhone? Do they have the ability to set the time to do something like this? I did a quick google search and you get a lot of junk results so I thought I’d ask you. Thanks!
Yes and No, the only way to pull something off like that (and what I have done in the past) is to set your timecode on your video device to the time of day, Or "reset" all the timecodes on all your devices at around the same time to 00:00:00:00. You won't have perfect sync but at least you will be within reason. You could also sync one clip from one device and see how many hours:minutes:seconds:frames it is off from the other clips and bulk move every clip after that accordingly. Organization to timecode is perfect when it just works and can get messy when things are not setup correctly. With a cell phone I'm not sure. A lot of cell phones will shoot with a variable bit rate sometimes making it tough to sync.
Javier Mercedes thanks. Just seeing this. Appreciate the response.
I just came to leave a comment for the AMAZING thumbnail! 😙👌
Thank you!
Sorry !! May i know (A cam to-D Cam ) this part i cant use[ Create Multi- Camera Source Seq ]this button THANK YOU SO MUCH >
fantastic! thanks man. worked brilliantly for me
Awesome, glad it worked for you Max!
Learnt something new. _Thanks_