When recording sync sound with the 5d you really should use a separate recorder like the Zoom H4n. But then you need to sync the sound in post. A slow and annoying procedure. Pluraleyes from www.singularsoftware.com does it all for you automatically.
You don’t need to use a clapperboard or ident or even a sync clap. Just make sure the 5dmk2 is recording audio so it has something to match up to. Best to use a separate mic like the Rode Shotgun to make sure you get the best quality audio for Pluraleyes to use to math up.
Watch this video and see just how easy it is to sync sound with the 5d and separate sound.
Philip Bloom » Blog Archive » Tutorial on syncing sound with the 5dmk2 and Pluraleyes for FCP
July 26, 2009 at 21:53[...] You can watch my tutorial here [...]
rknaub
July 27, 2009 at 13:23Hey philip, What kind of mic are you using to record into the Zoom? and lav or a shotgun?
Thanks
Randy
pbloom
July 27, 2009 at 13:26Hi Randy
Just a Sony Wireless Lav
paul prescott
January 19, 2010 at 12:47Philip, what I don’t get is why didn’t you plug the Sony Wireless directly into the 5D?
pbloom
January 19, 2010 at 18:00Because you can’t…and you can’t monitor audio and you can’t change levels!
Gert
July 26, 2009 at 22:48Very nice program. Going to test it on the recordings we made in New Castle upon Tyne (a triple Camera recording of a concert). I’m very curious about the results.
Thanks for the tip!
kraftschaum
July 27, 2009 at 00:24Sounds good!
Does anyone know the Synchroarts Vocalign Software? Kind of the same, but more use for audio and recording engineers, for music and vocal syncronizing, dubbing for foreign language, for example.
http://www.synchroarts.com/
himanshu
July 27, 2009 at 02:29I am waiting for the vegas version
Kapoue
July 27, 2009 at 08:30My current project is a editing of a event with 4 cameras, pluraleyes work so well.
Steve Charles
July 27, 2009 at 17:45The shot looks great and thank you very much for the tutorial. If I could ask a question, is that aliasing pattern flicking on his knee starting at 6:16 part of the screen capture compression or was that part of the shot? Again thank you for all the 5D tutorials and well wishes on your future projects.
pbloom
July 27, 2009 at 17:57Thanks Steve.
That’s the compression, but you do get things like that sometimes with the 5d
csinclair
August 23, 2009 at 16:04are there any issues regarding longer clips, where the audio slowly gets out of sync due to 30fps vs. 29.97 actual frame rate? I read some posts indicating workaround solutions for this, but does this plugin maintain frame-accurate audio for longer 12-min clips out of the Mark II?
Thanks,
Chris.
csinclair
August 23, 2009 at 16:12http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/h4n_audio_recorder_graham.html
this is the link i found just now and was referring to…
Josh Emerson
September 29, 2009 at 19:15Philip,
In your tutorial, you have multiple clips from 1 camera with audio, and then 1 audio.. each clip has 1 audio that corresponds to it.
How does plural eyes handle this set up for a wedding shoot..
1 Mark II footage (say 10 clips over the course of a wedding)
Another Mark II footage ( say 10 clips over the course of the same wedding)
1 long audio clip from a zoom or other audio recorder.
Will it align all of the clips in one sequence to the audio, or does it match up each clip with the full long audio clip each in its own sequence?
Thanks! You’re tutorials and blog are great!
felipe
November 2, 2009 at 00:32I need to sync up a feature shot in xd cam …I sent ref sound to channels
1&2… but recorded on a EDIROL a 4 track digital recorder as well.
Now a 1 hour offline is finished and I need to sync the original tracks on to it .
I usually do this on FCP doing my sync of original tracks with slate with clap recorded on video, it takes some time but works then I export a omfi and import on protools to mix
CAN PLURALEYES DO THIS FOR ME ?,…
thanks
Felipe
Jared Smith
January 16, 2010 at 07:10okay so i am about to start editing. my plan is to edit scene by scene in different sequences and then once everything is done put them together into one timeline… so, is this the correct way of going about this process:
1. Take all footage from a scene and using MPEG streamclip transcode it all to Pro Res
2. Pull all the pro res files into FCP
3. Pull all the files from the Zoom into FCP
4. Then put every single take from the day on a timeline… and then put all the audio from the zoom on the timeline and hit sync… walk away, let it do its thing
5. Clean up the timeline getting rid of all the excess footage or audio that didn’t match or wasn’t needed
6. Turn that timeline into a QT file (someone tell me the exporting options please).
7. Bring that QT file into FCP as a long, huge, very long take and start dividing it up within FCP
8. Once everything is divided up, now i can finally start editing the story?
man that seems like quite a process to have to do on every single scene. but i don’t mind to do it just want to make sure there is not a more efficient way of going about it.
thanks guys
jared
Joel
January 21, 2010 at 04:17Philip, if you were shooting say a drama type scene, would you still use the Sony Lav into the Zoom, or would you recommend a shotgun mic, if so, what one(Under $500)?
Thanks
Rob M
March 23, 2010 at 20:08Thanks for this.
Ill be getting this by the end of today.
Looks much easier than using my clap board.
One less body the better for me.
pbloom
March 24, 2010 at 03:43its so cool
Richard
April 20, 2010 at 22:06If you’re shooting with a 5D and instead of the zoom you’ve got a sound man with a DAT recorder- would pluraleyes still be a good way the synch the audio and video?
Cheers
(excellent site, by the way Philip)
pbloom
April 20, 2010 at 22:07Absolutely
M. Kruter
June 2, 2010 at 19:47I’m hoping to accomplish the same thing as Josh Emerson. Would you be able to answer his post from September 29, 2009?
Thanks!
pbloom
June 2, 2010 at 20:40yes you can sync up multiple cameras as long as they are same format/ frame rate and if you want multicam you need to give your audio and video track for multicam to accept it.
Marmot
June 18, 2010 at 02:12Two separate devices normally go out of sync, even at the same sampling rate, and especially for long, continuous shoots, such as concerts. How does PluralEyes deal with this? Let’s say a two-hour concert, non-stop video on a camcorder and non-stop audio to a Zoom.