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So, I'm using pluraleyes and I can import my synced timeline into Resolve. But for some reason some of my audio tracks are highlighted red, and they don't make any sound. I have no idea why this happens.

I also can't seem to create a multicam clip unless I use Resolve to line my footage up for me. Once the footage is on the timeline it seems impossible to create a multicam clip.

I have attempted to use Resolve to sync my footage, but it seems to be suited to syncing only one video and one separate audio track. I don't have access to metadata.

Please advise

Regarding some of the audio not having sound: what's their sample rate and codec?

48khz It was recorded on a Zoom H1 in WAV

Hey,

I've been writing a bunch of posts about multicam in Resolve, to explain some workflows I used and to exchange about different options, including Plural Eyes that I use too, since I'm into lots of multicam anyway...
So, I read your answer to Uli, I cannot comment on this very audio file issue, especially if you didn't change the path of the audio file. To be continued.

Regarding the sync, I have 2 different workflows which work for sure. Maybe the shortest one would be enough, even if it includes a kind of "trick" to ease the process.
Starting from the exported XML from PE that you imported in Resolve, you have stacked tracks on your TL. Up to one month ago, I re-synced by markers in Resolve by going to the media pool (didn't work in Edit) and putting markers in each file at the same TC that it was on these different files at the same common playback time on the TL in Edit...

The shortest WF I refered to is now to basically make a sort of garbage* multicam file > open in TL > thrash every tracks > paste all stacked tracks from the PE XML imported in Resolve > close. You're done...
[*take any tracks and make a multicam file of them by any means, no need to have real tc or markers references, it's just to create the multicam file - ISO - container]

Great thank you for your help

You're welcome...

This is only a workaround, actually BMD should implement an option allowing this in a handy way, like : "from this TL, make a multicam file with all activated tracks as they are (placements) on the TL" ...
Maybe one day...

JesseFrank wrote:So, I'm using pluraleyes and I can import my synced timeline into Resolve. But for some reason some of my audio tracks are highlighted red, and they don't make any sound. I have no idea why this happens.

They've possibly been unlinked (or failed to link properly when imported).

This just happened to me with an audio clip I imported. In my case the original file was in my Dropbox and I linked to it there (silly idea, but this is just a test project I've been working on); the next day the link was broken and the audio clip appeared in red on my Resolve timeline and wouldn't play. Trying to restore the link didn't work; I had to replace the clip entirely (there's a "replace clip" option if you right-click on the offending clip in the media pool). I moved the clip out of Dropbox and into the same directory as my video files, then used the "replace clip" option, and now all is working fine.

This may not be the problem in your case, but you could check to be sure all these clips are stored in the exact same directory that they were in when you imported the timeline, and that nothing has changed in terms of their filenames.