Workflow for syncing audio to video

Drew Ott

Drew Ott

Wish I were banned.
I understand how to sync audio to video if I'm only doing it with one clip, but if I have ~500 clips that I want to sync and then edit, what is a good workflow?

Apparently in FCP, you sync the clip, click "lock," and then you can remove the clips from the timeline and they'll stay synced in the bin. Is there an equivalent in Vegas?

At the moment I would bring in my audio and video file, sync the footage, "group" the audio and video, then move both of them to the very end of the timeline. Obviously this won't work for hundreds of clips.

I'm feeling very dumb asking this question.... working on my first project with double-system sound.
 
No, there's nothing else you can do, apart from:
1. Write a script that does the indefinite grouping.
2. Export both audio and video to an intermediate codec.
3. Do what you do right now by moving them to the end of the timeline.
 
That's frustrating...

Thanks though. Do you know of any scripts that would help? I know nothing about script-writing.
 
So you don't have any audio attached the the video, even if it's the crappy camera sound? If you did, it's not that hard to sync up. Just edit first, sync later. I shoot my films with just the camera mic. I then edit the film with the original sound, then do ADR for the entire film. At that point, it's just a matter of syncing up the audio, since it's already edited. Having the original sound makes it easy as I just use the waveform to match them up. Not sure if that helps, but thought I'd throw it out there.
 
That's a possibility but I'd rather sync all the audio up first so I can really judge performance.
 
On our features, with similar numbers of clips, we started a separate project for each scene, syncing the audio to the clips, edited the scene at the end of the that project timeline, and then copied and pasted the edited section into the main timeline of the film. Worked for us.
 
I ran across some software while surfing the net...that will automaitcaly since your vid/and sound. I will look and see if I can find it again.
 
I appreciate it, but that software is only for FCP.

I think I'm going to do something like what DVXSanDiego mentioned.
 
Ok, just figured something out. I'm just using nested projects. Sync one clip and its audio in a timeline, save that file as a .veg by its shot name (Scene 18C take 5). You can drag a .veg file.

I'll go through and sync all the footage and have each take being its own project file. Not too bad.
 
Really? Are the files still in their original format or are they converted to something else? I've been using Cineform and it'd be annoying if doing this conversion process changed the codec on me.
 
When I cut my trailer for Wulf, I drug the .veg file for the film into a new project so I could pull shots and whatnot from the finished film. First, it took a while to "load" (realized after it was converting), then I found a new avi file in the folder where the .veg was kept. Had the same name and took up a couple gigs of space. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that nesting creates avi files.
 
Interesting. I'm not sure if I'm experiencing the same thing.

When I drag in the .veg file, they're playing back in real time, which I only experience with Cineform. I think if Vegas is creating a new file for the nested project, it's not doing any encoding, which is a good thing.
 
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