Curtis your great! I do think there is an easier way to do this. If you make a multicam, and it doesn't sync properly you can right click the multicam and click open in timeline. Then you can manually sync everything. Once you sync, you then close that timeline. Your multicam is now ready for you to drop in your normal timeline. It keeps it much cleaner than the way your doing it IMO. I have learned a lot from you over the years. Thanks for all the free content. You can also drag the multicam on the left side of the timeline by the track section to open the multicam in a new timeline.
Hi Curtis, this was really useful, i plan to test this very thing next week so i will come back and leave another comment after that, thank you so much!
I've never been able to get a good sync with Davinci for some reason, I have to use Final Cut to sync files and that works like a charm almost every time.
Back in the day I learned Premiere and then work had me switch to FCP. The great thing was that FCP Express cost about $100 Canadian and I could use a simple no nonsense version on my MacBook Pro. But the FCP platform has changed so greatly that I'm better off going back into editing with the Adobe Cloud package including Premiere. After I scrape off the rest I'll have to learn how to toggle between Premiere, Audition and After Effects. Well....actually I never have had a solid grasp of After Effects.
@@curtisjudd hey thank you, I was trying to click on multiple clips. I had to them two at a time, if I remember correctly in premiere pro you can do as many different clips at once
I shoot with a Canon XA 55 camcorder. I'm pretty old school and often just want to record straight in on channel 1. The audio set up is sooo convoluted. But, they do have switches on the outside AND things buried in a menu. To improve my chances of getting the audio I want, I got a Zoom F6. It is a beast of another type. But I really like the preamps and the 32 floating bit. I have had mixed results synching the F6 recordings with the Canon MXF audio. I get those same error messages that are in this video. So, I am not totally loosing my mind. But, sometimes it synchs! I'm trying hard to standardize my technique to get standard results. Oh, Curtis with all your sway, please lean on Canon and Blackmagic to get this straightened out. Thanks. In the meantime, thanks for the workaround. I'll just have to resort to it after a couple of tries with the waveform synch, instead of going down a rabbit hole trying to make it work like it should. That's pretty old school too!
Just getting started on DR. It would be really useful if you could start a few steps earlier. Imagine a long form project with many off-loaded camera and audio cards. Each one in a dated folder. Import them all into DR.l to preserve the naming structure, there are lots of files you don’t need! Next, the first video card/bin (001) with the corresponding audio card. What do you do then to sync them up?
Nice video Curtis and happy new year. Same that Resolve still seems to have problems with a simple sync for multicam. something that Pluraleyes could do years ago. Especially with all the new AI that BMD ha engineered into Resolve - it still looks like they need to go back and fix things like this. cheers
Thank you, thank you, Chris. I have a question which follows on as the next step to consider…do you edit audio in Izotope RX before ripple deleting various parts of you video/audio?
Thank you so much for the video. The pace of it was great. Can you help me find some sites that have free video clips? Everyone I see in searches ask for an initial investment. Also, are there any clips with separate voice file so I can download and test to see if I can do this. I already tried it with some clips I have, but I do not have clips that have a separate voice recording. I am a teacher btw, and want this for my class.
Great video! One question: Is it possible to offset an embedded audio track by a certain duration? You mentioned in the DJI mic review that it has a delay of about 26 ms, so I it would be nice if it's possible to just repair that delay for each clip.
Hey Curtis! Thank you! I love DaVinci Resolve! I do music. I use Cubase and they sync wonderfully. Even though I add a bunch of VST's through Cubase I've learned to NEVER add reverb in Cubase to my audio file. It will NEVER sync. I will add reverb in Fairlight, or use my raw file from Cubase and add my reverb file and match it up, then remove the raw file. Thanks again Curtis! As always great content!!
Curtis, the Deity timecode generator works just fine with the Sony FX30 and the Sound Devices MixPre3 II. Just finished testing and jamming and removing the Deity to see if the two stay in sync. After jamming I waited 30 minutes before doing a recording. A mix was sent to the FX30. The video was recorded on an Atomos Ninja V. The video was transferred to a hard drive along with the wave file from the MixPre3 and both files were imported into DaVinci Resolve Studio 18. The video and the wave file were synced using timecode. I don't know how long the timecode generator can be removed and the sync maintained. It is possible in situations where the session is not too long that the sync will not be affected. I was interested to see if it could be accomplished with just one timecode generator. I may do a more extreme test later.
It can't be just me... but the zoom is soo limited in Davinci, you can hardly zoom in at all! When trying to manually sync I'm basically guessing where to put it, when I should (just like in Ableton and other software) be able to just zoom all the way in to the samples and shift it to being in sync.
It is! I’ve recently transitioned from FCPX to resolve and got really spoiled using the to pinch to zoom functionality on Apple’s Magic Trackpad. I’m currently exploring the possibility of regaining that functionality in Resolve by potentially assigning custom hot keys and experimenting with some of the trackpad’s settings in accessibility.
Not sure, you'll have to try it. I found the results were really unreliable with footage from my non-Blackmagic video clips. Fortunately, you can try the free version to see if it works for you.
What if the Scratch audio Isn't good enough to sync and u are spending days trying to sync or u didn't clap at the beginning Wouldn't time code make it easier than using audio? There are times Where Scratch audio is very hard to sync manually Especially looking at waveforms that looked totally different on each audio track.
Alternatively 7:09 at this point you could also right click on the multicam clip and choose open on timeline. And then edit the multicam as a timeline and add and sync the wave file from the audio recorder manually inside the multicam clip.
Hi , I was wondering if there was a way to do multiple clips at the same time, I have a short film where the sound was recorded on a separate recorder ( zoom) with only reference audio on camera, It was a single camera shoot, we also did clap slates as backup to waveform sync, but obviously I have ended up with a mountain of footage which all need to be synced to the respective audio recorder files, I can do one clip at a time or perhaps there is a way to simultaneously select multiple videoclips( with embedded sound) and multiple audio clips ( from recorder) and have them all sync together. I have tried the one clip at a time method and waveform sync works perfectly, I am just trying to speed up my workflow. Let me know your thoughts.
I usually use the macOS app put out by Tentacle Sync called Tentacle Sync Studio. You just drop all of your audio and video clips on the app and it syncs them up in just a couple of seconds. Then you export an XML file which can then be opened in most video editing apps.
Great tutorial! I have a question. On your edit page after all the alignments your multicam video shows as 1 track of video. I would expect it would be shown as two clips one over another. What am I missing here?
I started always using a Rode mic go 2 on the C70 and setting level to auto for cleaner scratch and have not had a sync issue since😉😀 before that it was always mess🤦.
In my first short ( ~8 min) with an actual crew - I learned some significant lessons - which is good. I let the crew place me in a dire place regarding synching video and audio. I know better and take full responsibility. One video clip from the camera could encompass many takes. Or one. And a chunk of time, the slate was done at the end. Similarly, The boom did not always start and stop with the camera. And thus, the number of takes on a give audio clip could be distinct from any video clip. And don’t forget the Lavilier’s and another recorder device used (a table top used for a poker game scene). I have not yet investigated what the soundman did within those clips. I am frightened to find out :) Also, for each boom and laveilier track has an second identical track with a 6db difference. I think this adds only a bit more complexity as I will take the same action for each pair since they are exactly the same, except for the 6db difference. Effectively, I have a many-to-many relationship between the number of takes on the video clips to the number of takes on the audio clips. What do you think I should do? My thought: I take 10-20 hours and break everything into defined takes. I would then attempt the auto-sync and/or auto-align. One benefit of this approach allows me to optimize organization and the use of metadata, keywords and smartbins. I surely could use some advice. Thanks!
Well I have 200 video clips and audio clips that need to be sunk up before I want to start editing. Obviously as wonderful as resolve is, it ain’t gonna do it. I’ve been told pluralize no longer exists… Anybody know a program that can do this for me?
Is the a maximum amount of time a video should be so it's unlikely to get any drift? At the same time, I guess you could clap again in a video to have addition sync points if needed.
Depends on the camera and audio recorder. For most modern cameras over $1000, 40 minutes is no problem. Usually by an hour there may be a frame or two of drift.
As Judd wrote, it depends largely on your camera. I would be curious to test any "serious video camera" for clock drift as I did with my Fuji X-E1 and Nikon D300s. See the results in my project log titled "But it's only parts per million!" (include the quotes in you search!) TL;DR: those sub 1000$ not-built-for-video cameras can't shoot a 8 minutes take without seeing noticeable drift at the end.
For the life of me.. why doesnt davinci offer a feature which syncs multiple clips together? Its like something which seems totally ignored by developers. Ive got a wedding with 2 cams and multiple clips of each cam to edit and I need to be able to sync all the clips. I tried using plural eyes but it just doesnt work right with davinci. Does anybody know of any software which can do this for davinci? Or is there some secret hidden setting in davinci which can do this? I used to do this quickly in premiere pro and plural eyes.
Everyone fails to mention if your audio is 32-bit and not 24-bit - DV will not automatically sync audio - at least in my experience. BTW - I never have trouble syncing C70 Video and External audio as long as everything is 24-bit - 32-bit never works. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for sharing. Our audio clips here were 24-bit poly wave files with 4 channels. I suspect it is the channel count that caused the issue here. Resolve SHOULD be able to handle that but didn’t.
It would be great to have AI auto-detect the slate clap or human clap in a clip and add a marker by itself. It would speed things up when having to sync "manually" !! - Blackmagicdesign, if you're listening ... heeeelp!
Although I already understood the value of timecode, after watching this video I can see why timecode is so valuable in terms of saving time in post-production and generally simplifying the audio syncing process.
This is the only avenue where Premiere is far better than Resolve. I wish BM would work on their algorithm a little, it would save a lot of editors a lot of time! :/
Interestingly, it works well with footage from BMD cameras. I agree, if they really want this to be used industry wide, they’ll need to get it working with footage from other cameras.
I dont know why people praise this software if its very complicated to sync a multicam sequence. i was hoping resolve solves this probem as opposed to Adobe PP. However now that i have been trying to auto sync audio for the past hour and jumping from video to video on youtube, I am seriously considering not buying resolve because most of my work in multicam editing. a\
@@curtisjudd I actually do use blackmagic pocket cameras together with the Zoom H4n Pro recorder and davinci has issues with them as well. I think I'll just resort to timecode next time
