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- Real Name: Ron Jones
Warning: This is a totally newbie question. Sorry for my ignorance here, I've been using Davinci Resolve for about 5 months or so and I'm learning every day about the power of this excellent software.
Overview
I shoot hours of video and audio with a single camera today and I use the onboard captured audio. I'm adding another camera angle shortly and likely a separate audio recording device. I've watched videos and read up on both Multicam (wow!) and Sync Bins (wow!!). That said, I'm not sure if either of those will be able to take my footage and sync everything together over the entire recording session.
Scenario
Here's a typical scenario. I record 4 hours of audio separately from video. At times I turn on camera 1 and record clips, at times I also turn on camera 2 and record clips. When I get home I upload my content and I have something like 20 clips from camera 1, 10 clips from camera 2, and 1 long audio track.
Questions
So my question is what is my next step to get all of this sync'd up and ready for editing? E.g. will it work if I load it all up in a single multicam clip and sync based on audio? Or do I throw it all into a single sync bin? Will that align clips from camera 2 that are hours out from the original sync point where I clapped at the beginning of the recording session?
Or am I supposed to change my process so that I capture clips together, including audio, by turning on both cameras and audio, hitting record on all three, and then stopping all three at nearly the same time, as if I were capturing separate scenes in a movie? That would be very difficult to do in my situation.
Overview
I shoot hours of video and audio with a single camera today and I use the onboard captured audio. I'm adding another camera angle shortly and likely a separate audio recording device. I've watched videos and read up on both Multicam (wow!) and Sync Bins (wow!!). That said, I'm not sure if either of those will be able to take my footage and sync everything together over the entire recording session.
Scenario
Here's a typical scenario. I record 4 hours of audio separately from video. At times I turn on camera 1 and record clips, at times I also turn on camera 2 and record clips. When I get home I upload my content and I have something like 20 clips from camera 1, 10 clips from camera 2, and 1 long audio track.
Questions
So my question is what is my next step to get all of this sync'd up and ready for editing? E.g. will it work if I load it all up in a single multicam clip and sync based on audio? Or do I throw it all into a single sync bin? Will that align clips from camera 2 that are hours out from the original sync point where I clapped at the beginning of the recording session?
Or am I supposed to change my process so that I capture clips together, including audio, by turning on both cameras and audio, hitting record on all three, and then stopping all three at nearly the same time, as if I were capturing separate scenes in a movie? That would be very difficult to do in my situation.