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Red Giant Offering 20% Off Plural Eyes

Pluraleyes allows you to sync audio files from an external recorder with video. For example, say you’re shooting an interview with your HDSLR – which has horrible audio – and using an audio recorder to record audio of the interview. You can sync that up in post manually, but that can take some time. Plural eyes will do it automatically for you. The video above shows you the steps, which is tremendously easy. He is using a Mac, so it may be different on a PC.

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When out shooting and you know you are going to sync the video with another audio source not from your camera, it’s important to give some audio references. That means when you hit record on the audio file and on the camera (as close in time as possible), you have to give the camera and record a point of recognition. I was taught to say “camera speed” when starting to record and “camera off” when done, just before stoping recording on the audio recorder and camera. And you say that when no one else is talking. I have found that clapping three times works great when syncing manually. I look at the audio wave forms to line up the audio recording with the camera audio in FCP, and the claps give nice high waveforms. But to each his own.

The previous versions of Pluraleyes I have used were not that great. I would say that the success rate for me was less than 50 percent, so I just went straight to manually syncing. This new version looks promising though. It might be worth doing a free trial first. If you’ve used version 3.1.1, please let me know how you like it.

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