CS4 audio sync and link help


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CS4 audio sync and link help
by Brent Peterson on Jul 17, 2009 at 6:47:44 am

1) I am editing a huge project shot with the RED camera and need to sync audio recorded externally as wave files to each clip. I can easily sync the audio to the raw clips in a sequence and then link them together, but I would love to put those freshly synced clips back into bins for organization and editing.

When I drag the linked audio and video back into a bin and then try to edit with it, I only find I have the original clip. The audio didn't stay with it. Is there a way to do this. AVID and FCP can do this function... can Premiere Pro?

2) Also, does anyone know when externally recorded audio timecode will become supported -or- if there is a workaround? I am syncing all my audio visually using the clapper (slower), but would really like to sync with timecode (faster). Premiere shows all my imported wave files timecode starting at 00:00:00:00, when they should match the camera clips timecode. The audio's embedded timecode is obviously being ignored. Could it be an import setting?

Thanks,

Brent

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Re: CS4 audio sync and link help
by Daniel Beahm on Jul 19, 2009 at 12:23:34 am

Searching for answers to the same problem.

I have been a devoted user of Adobe Premiere for a long, long time, but this issue has put me on the verge of making the move to Final Cut. If I can't find a solution in the next day or so, I will likely start using Final Cut.

This is such a major, major shortcoming that Adobe REALLY needs to address.

How do they expect to be taken seriously as a professional video editing tool, if the only way to sync thousands and thousands of audio and video clips (if you're editing a feature), is to sync everything manually, VISUALLY even (and then either export each linked clip or have to save it -and rename it- as a nested clip)?!

Unbelievable.

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Re: CS4 audio sync and link help
by Jonas Bendsen on Aug 5, 2009 at 10:08:14 pm

It would seem that Premiere is only able to link audio and video on the time line (in a sequence).

Yes, this is an incredible shortcoming of Premiere.

I have been searching and searching for a way to link files in bins (audio and video), but I don't think Premiere supports this.

Yes, Final Cut and AVID both link audio and video in bins.

Yes, Adobe had better address this issue if they expect to be taken seriously as a Pro Editing solution.

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Re: CS4 audio sync and link help
by Peter Malakey on Sep 15, 2009 at 2:42:42 pm

I'm glad to finally find some editors who share my big frustration with Premiere Pro. It's not a heavy feature to implement, I don't understand why Adobe doesn't want to hear about it, I've been wasting my time synchronising elements in the timeline and using sequences as clips.

I asked several times Adobe for this feature since Premiere Pro 1.0 ...

Hope they will release the option in CS5.

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