PLURALEYES 4 REVIEW PROFESSIONAL

Since sound source is also an issue and can be out by over a frame depending on where the mic or board feed comes from just relying on sound for sync will not cut it for close lip sync of an actors face or tap dancing where dancers are very critical of out of sync audio. For the shows that run for some time with all cameras starting and stopping within maybe seconds of each other syncing manually is not such a difficult task. 9.5 will sync but as you say puts them in V and A tracks. Like you Dave I prefer working with VA tracks for source video. While I have taken no measurements, I suspect if I were to time the import and sync for each application I might find they are very close in time. The syncing itself is quite a bit faster. Plural Eyes takes quite a bit of time during its import stage. The time it takes to sync so far seems to be comparable. Once you begin editing a Plural Eyes imported project, there' is no nice way to add additional files.

Adding additional footage after the fact.

ItвЂ™s a cumbersome process but reduces the # of tracks in the time line. I usually delete one of the channels, switch the remaining channel back to stereo, and rebalance the left and right. Importing the FCP XML files generated by Plural Eyes results in all the stereo audio tracks as left and right.

Stereo files are not separated into separate tracks.

It rarely does the right thing by default and its unpleasant to use. The UI for this application is very awkward and cumbersome.

No need to import the footage into Plural Eyes.I plan to review prior projects looking for particularly challenging ones to test. The ability to sync tracks is very promising. Reviewing the footage and listening to the different tracks it looks to be very acceptable. The video clips all matched up within 1 frame. I matched up the audio recorder track together and then compared the remaining elements to compare the syncing. I combined Plural Eyes and EDIUS sync for #3. This is particularly impressive since Plural Eyes struggles a lot with the parade (#2) and I was unable to get it to successfully sync a few of the files having to manually try to sync it up. A dance studio's recital performance in a theater.Д®DIUS was able to successfully sync all three projects.The music track is very faint at times and hard to pick up. A parade performance which used an audio recorder to recorder the music track.

PLURALEYES 4 REVIEW PROFESSIONAL

Musicians performance that had 3 cameras, one audio recorder and professional audio mixes created by an audio technician that recorded their own tracks.

I rebuilt 3 projects that I recently worked on. I am quite impressed with its speed and ability to sync. I resorted to the 'Try Really Hard' option only when it refused to sync. I used audio normalization unless there was some sort of syncing issue. I always disabled the Audio Drift feature as I never had an noticeable issue. I currently use version 3.5, since version 4 tried to simplify the UI creating issues when working with multi-track recorders like the Roland R26. I have definitely put it through its paces. Most of the time I am giving it up to two hours of footage at a time to synchronize. Plural Eyes has worked and successfully synced almost everything I have given it, with a few times requiring me to do some tricks when the audio is problematic. Tap dancers, in particular, are extra critical of audio being out of sync with the performance noticing when its off by even 1 video frame. Over 90% of my work involves musicians and a lot of it features tap dancers. All of my video work involves multiple DSLR's and audio recorders.

I have been using Plural Eyes since version 2.0, before Red Giant took over.

Pluraleyes 4 review