In the absence of either clapsticks or valid timecode, you often find yourself looking for things that become a common reference point. In the film example, the point where the sticks clap shut provide a good mark-in-point. Typically these let you sync clips by matching timecode or by marking an in-point at some common event and aligning the source clips accordingly. Most modern NLEs have multi-cam editing tools. The latter often happens when a camera gets powered down and back up in the course of the production. More often than not, this doesn’t go according to plan once in the thick of the production – or the timecode starts out close and drifts out. In a film-style shoot, they might have started each take with clapsticks. Under the best of circumstances you might be able to get the crew to internally sync the cameras to time-of-day timecode at the beginning of the day or get them to occasionally shoot a large LED timecode display somewhere within a concert venue.
In the case of digital run-and-gun projects (like a low-budget rock concert or reality TV productions), the cameras are running wild and not necessarily synced to each other. Obviously timecode is ideal, but this only works properly when all cameras were fed from a genlocked master timecode generator.
PLURALEYES 4 MANUAL ISO
When you work multi-cam shows, proper sync is essential to line up the camera iso recordings in post. “You have GOT to see it,” was the comment I often heard about PluralEyes during that week. Without a doubt, every editor friend I ran into at NAB that happened to pass by Singular Software’s booth raved about this product.
PLURALEYES 4 MANUAL SOFTWARE
If you’ve ever edited multi-cam shows where the production crew’s attitude seemed to have been, “Sync! We don’t need any stinkin’ sync!” – then this software is for you.
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