Why Sync Bin is a GAME CHANGER [Resolve 16.1]

[@LearnColorGrading]

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[@JanErikBamrud]

Sync Bin is amazing! Used clips from 4 cameras - all clips (different angles) contains about 45 minutes from a concert - and DaVinci resolve synced all in about 2 minutes! Fantastic! Love it!

[@leodf1]

The one product that really does what it says. You really make everything simple to understand. I always remember how after reading the manual several times, I finally understood Dynamic mode only after your explanation. Recommend your courses to anyone who wants to learn fast and well

[@BillyRybka]

So I have never had success with sync bins. for some reason They never show up. I followed your method and It says no Clips synced. I sync the same way but it just doesnt show up. Its not a super big inconvenience, i still sync using the cut page method. its great. Do you have thoughts as to why it wouldn't be working? I am using 2 angles and one audio file. Each video file has audio also.

[@gadgetcook9193]

This video was a GAME CHANGER for my work flow. I'm new in video editing and I just got 2 video cameras. After this video it was just like - bada bing - bada bum! And there I got it - video film in 2 camera angles! Thank you so much!

This is a huge improvement! Learn color grading courses worth the money to the last penny (I live in the UK). The instructor explains everything clearly. He is my No.1 teacher for Resolve.

[@glen-draketoolworks7186]

These short videos on a specific task are very, very helpful.

[@johnsfilmsllc]

“It’s called source overwrite to make things very confusing”. I love it :)

[@TheCobyRandal]

Thanks! I had no idea this was possible. Here's a quick reference: Sync Bin can audio sync multiple clips and help you quickly cut different camera angles in the Cut window. 8:26 How to create a Sync Bin 10:57 Use a Sync Bin in Timeline "Source Overwrite" 14:37 Use a Sync Bin in Timeline "Place on Top"

[@JaimeIA]

i love this, is especially useful for clips of different lengths, when recording from a phone or a photographic camera that recorded more than one file for the same clip depending on the size. BRAVO !!!

[@jaypillay8380]

Brilliant video! You explain key aspects comprehensively so that everybody can learn

[@diycentral]

7:37 Ha. I was about to run out of patience and scroll forward but then my mind started getting blown at 4:35. I'm just getting back into photography and video after about 10 years so it is awesome to hear features like this exist now.

[@blackmanops3749]

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Excellent explanation. Sooo helpful. I'll be "syncing" up a storm now!!

[@jonathanmasters2178]

I am in the middle of a project right now and wow this is going to save me so much time!! Very excited to have came across this

[@dwoodog]

One of the better sync bin tutorials. I wish you had gone over using a separate audio track, deleting unwanted footage, and when you're all done in the cut page, do you just flip to the edit page to add transitions, and titles?

[@kaffemedkantornGB]

Dear Alex! I couldn't thank you enough for all the help your nowledgeable and at the same time highly enjoyable Resolve tutorials have given me along the road changeing from Premiere! I hope you will keep going. Now I have a question om my own. If I want to sync, let's say, three videos from three different cameras, where each video is split into three clips by the camera, how would I go about it? When I try to sync from the media pool to use from the sync bin it only makes nine different camera angles, and when I try to create a multicam timeline it seems to sync randomly even with the right box checked (detect clips from same camera). I try to sync by audio. What to do?

[@RomanSable]

I shoot music videos with only one camera but with 3 angles or more angles. Can i synchronize these clips in multicam and than just make montage in real time while video is playing? For example Sony Vegas had this feature when i saw 3 or more angles in the same time and clicked on numbers of my keyboard and it automatically cuted clips and maked one track from all of angles. Hope you'll understand what i mean.

[@dcplyr]

Good Sir, I will have to buy your learning series. You are very informative and you pleasantly make problems clear.

[@ayumeoliveira192]

Thank you soooo much! You saved my life!!!! hugs from Brazil!

[@joelarvidsson]

Nice overview. It was better than I first thought! Im still on 16 release and read about problems in the 16.1 release, that its not at smooth playback. So Im giving it a little while to mature. But this make me want to update soon.

[@jezriggs]

I love your enthusiasm

[@hchattaway]

This looks great... but I could not find a way to use an audio track from a digital recorder with this... I included it in with the files to be synced and it looks like it was, but I can't drag it to the timeline.... is there some other step needed for this? I feel like I am missing something because without the ability to do this, it's pretty weak.. and DR is not known for that!

[@ahsanminhasofficial]

Love your videos really smooth way of explaining complicated stuff

[@DavidSchamis]

Excellent video - I really was waiting for DR to add this and now that they have I have upgraded to Studio and will likely ditch PremPro.

[@HippieP629]

I'm just barely getting into editing w/ DR. This looks amazing! I'm literally amazed at how useful this is for editors. Thanks a ton for sharing this info, sir.

[@davepersonal9082]

Great video on this feature but a question (or two). I am a newbie and I come from a Premiere background and to do multicam there it was as you explained....My workflow in Premiere: I create one timeline with all my cams, use audio to synch. Then I would bring that timeline as its own clip into another timeline....then using the Premiere multicam window I can just hit play on the timeline then click on the shots I want , real time.....much as like when a director calls a show....and the timeline updates. I can see all the cameras rolling "live" just by playing the muilticam timeline. When the shot is "right" , I click to switch to that camera....then watch the other cameras and watch for my next great cut, click and move on.....and so on down the line....when I stop, all the edits update on the timeline immediately. Does Resolve have any function for doing it that way easily? Can that be done somehow in the sync bin utility? Seems like once I use sync to place the clip I would then have to play with ins/outs..... not a huge issue for shorter pieces where artistic cuts are massaged constantly. But for long format (think 4 camera, 2 hour theatrical events) stuff, I am not sure sync would be the right tool? I should also mention that I shoot everything in either XAVC (Sony x70) or AVCHD (Sony handicams)...I understand there may be issues with clips and audio sync for those formats? BTW, love your presentation style...easy to listen to and thorough enough to be thorough but no overload for the newbie. Thanks for posting these videos!

[@MPA188]

Most Fundamentally explained I have found on internet about what Sync bin really mean. One question is what model of wacom you use and do you feel editing better with it than normal mouse?

[@storyfirstfilms149]

Wow it’s ok let’s all get excited and thank you for your simplified explanations! 🥂

[@TechTomVideo]

maaaaaaan - this would have saved me sooo much time if i found this video before!

[@brandoncordoba]

Wow thank you so much! This is going to save me SO much time! & If you are reading this thank you so much Davinci!

[@JeffBourke]

Keep the uploads coming. Best channel ever.

[@MacherTV]

Love your channel! A very good source for DaVinci tutorials. Keep up the great work! :)

[@adeeboberoi5362]

Amazing feature, Thank you for the inf. Question: what if you have 38 clips of different lengths. A wedding for instance with 2 cams but totally independently filmed. One cam may have long clips and the other short clips. Would the sync still work (obviously there will need to be a min length for DR to recognize the audio to be able to sync)?

[@fakehoneypictures]

Adeeb Oberoi tried something similar today for an event edit, it didn’t work completely. Until they improve it in the future versions, i decided to sync it on plural eyes and export xml for ppro, then import into resolve. That workaround worked better for me

[@gustavobravetti]

I'm almost convinced of switching from FCPX to Resolve 16.x. I would like to ask you something if I may. On my projects, I use a lot of very short multi-cams cuts (some of them with a length of a second, and even less). The best time-saving workflow I'm using so far in FCPX is to create all that angle cuts on the flight, as I watch it. I just press play and while I watch the multiple angles I use keyboard shortcuts to change the active angle, which creates a multi-cam angle sequence on the fly, that I can refine after if I need too. Wonder if this is possible on Resolve 16.x. Thanks in advance and keep the great work!

[@icedelvin]

I'm not sure this new feature can do like FCPX but if you create multicam clip in Davinci, you can do just like FCPX.

[@KhuramMalikme]

Wonderful tutorial. Thank you so much. Very well explained and articulated. I wonder if you could talk about a little but about switching audio sources when switching cams as well? I once recorded an interview with 2 cameras with their own audio but found it a nightmare to switch between audios when switching cameras because everything was sync'ed in Premiere based on the audio from one particular camera. So it would be interesting to learn how DaVinci will resolve that.

[@JeffBourke]

I can’t wait to use the sync bin. Thanks for the upload

[@aaronlabarre501]

I have 2 cameras and an audio file I need to sync up and sometimes use both camera shots at the same time (side by side). Our cameras only record 10 minutes at a time so we start the cameras several times for an hour shoot. Each clip is being treated as a separate camera when I make a sync bin or any kind of multicam set up. Is there any way to sync several clips from 2 cameras to one long audio file?

[@bentonpix]

Thank you!! This saved what surely would have been years off my life!

[@skjelm6363]

12:27 Confusing like in the good old days, where "user friendly" and "intuitive UI" wasn't invented. ;) Thank you for explaining! I like your style to describe tings easy and understandable with your kind of examples.

[@SirDavosChannel]

Great video! Very helpful, thank you!

[@rudolfabelin383]

Thanks Alex! This was a both an interesting and fun episode.

[@bob76451]

Great tutorial as always. Alex. Do you know if the sync bin will handle timecode drift, or do we still need to handle that another way?

[@babisarts3916]

Excellent tutorial I've learned a lot from you

[@Julio260375]

This was super super helpful, thank you 👍😊

[@microbroadcast]

Great feature. Thanks for taking the time to explain it!

[@FlyingAroundOz]

This will be very useful to me as I do almost exclusively multicam video. However, my footage cannot be synced by audio or timecode but I'm guessing there is a manual sync option. I'm also hoping that this method allows multiple audio sources too. I do flying videos that have cockpit audio as well as ambient sound and all must be synced. I have an additional issue that the audio recorder runs at a slightly different speed to the cameras, but that's a topic for another video I think.

[@el_dorado]

Thank you! Very interesting information! If you can make more this great video about new things in Resolve.

[@eddietor_cine]

Say I have on camera and syncing to my pro audio, but I want to just stick to my pro audio how does that work like it would in multicam? Or how about I have three cameras and one pro audio, I want that audio and just cut between the angles not affecting the audio, can this work in the cut page?

[@ZHEkA1987]

Thanks for video! I have some questions: 1. Can I add videos and audio from recoder and sync all them? Now I use PluralEyes. Resolve everytime loose some footages from PluralEyes XML, so I open XML in Premier and export new XML - and Resolve work with it well. 2. If I have a few shots from one angle? Sync Bin will groupe them? Sync Bin can do what do PluralEyes or not?))))

[@telier101]

Евгений Балабанович I have failed with trying to sync a 3-camera setup with audio recorder (Zoom H6) for a concert. Somehow the metadata for angle seams not work for syncing audiotracks on the Cut-Page. But, with Resolve 16.1 it was the first time, I could manage to sync the same files to a Multicam-Clip without errors. Just treat your audiotracks like videotracks, define them as a separate angle in metadata (A, B, C, D, or so on, stereo-tracks as the same angle ...) Like that it 100% worked.

[@hchattaway]

@@telier101 I had this same problem on the cut page.. Just to make sure, the way you got it to work was on the Edit page? Because before this Sync Bin feature which he is describing, I was able to do it fine.. but the Sync bin is not allowing me to use my Zoom files either.. it sinks them, but is not placing them on the timeline. :(

[@telier101]

hchattaway It works for me on the edit page. After that I did not try again on cut page.

[@hchattaway]

@@telier101 right.. I got it on the edit page too.. no problem... would just like it to be consistent on the cut page also... Not being able to sync with a separate audio track is nuts.. that should always be possible. Thanks!

[@AndreyKishe]

Big thanks from Ukraine. my partner hates to work with regular multicam sequence))) this option he will like!!

[@StephenEastwood]

Is there any way to sync multiple audio files to videos yet? like doing several external lavs, booms and link them all to the video, last I tried I can only get one audio track to link to a video file?

[@rossmpostpro]

Interesting but what happens if one of your clips is missing audio or timecode or both? Love the content as always.

[@cuttercarlo547]

the problem with syncing by waveform and using non-professional cameras like dslr, gopro etc. is, that the image has always 2 to 3 frames delay to the recorded audio due to the slow image processing power of the cams, resulting in way out of sync videos, just like this one... ;)) is there a way to slip/offset the audio automatically? love your vids anyway... keep up the great work! :)

[@carlkim2577]

Great feature! But my problem is that I have multiple clips that stop and start. I use Sony so I have enabled time codes. So the sync is pretty close. However, since I have so many disparate clips, Resolve thinks that my two camera set up is actually 9 cameras. How do I get it to recognize that only two cameras are running? Tks.

[@erichnk]

It would be very good if you could integrate what you say about the sync bin with some of your other other videos on editing video and especially audio. I do videos of live classical chamber music, and two cameras with a separate pro digital soundtrack are a minimum, with three being the norm (the third actively "in hand", the other two on high tripods). When I mess up, or Murphy strikes, redundant SYNCHED video, and occasionally sound from one of the RODE mics is needed to save the day. The new Sync bin seems a godsend, but colour must also be matched, and sound cleaned up and sometimes seamlessly "spliced".

[@kiterway3592]

Wait What!? This seems too good to be true! I'm just learning to use Resolve for the first time ever but my shoot of yesterday I used a GoPro, a iPhone 11, and a H4n (for audio) and was anticipating that I'd need to manually do things. I can't wait to try it. I'll be quite surprised if it works! Especially since the iphone shot at 29.97 fps the GoPro at 23.??

[@NicB-Creations]

Slightly of topic but what settings do you recommend for the Limit Davinci resolve memory cache and Fusion cache sliders under preferences. I don't quite understand how to set these and why. In my case I have 32GB system ram and a dedicated SSD for caching. Do I just set the sliders to the maximum?

[@lawrencekeeney4317]

This is an amazing new feature which you explained perfectly.

[@DocMicha]

Very very ... very good explanation! Thank You!

[@kaslang]

I like the way you make a complicated feature, simple to understand. very good job. As i mainly working on Avid Media Composer, i must say, sync bin is a very complicated way to edit multi cam . on media composer, you just sync a number of cameras to one multi cam group clip. and that's it. you put this clip on the timeline, and you can cut to any of the cameras at any given place and time. no need to go back and forth to a sync bin or anything else. just add edit and choose your cam of choice. Why BMG make this feature so complicated?

[@showcasevideos3]

I knew there had to be another former AVID editor that would laugh at this NEW workflow. I like the way AVID handles multi-grouping. It's only new to Resolve.

[@olegaleks]

Actually good feature. I'm still editing with FCPX, but i like what Blackmagic does with the editing features in Davinci Resolve. And I know for shure that I won't to grade in FCPX, but perhaps, I will soon edit in Davinci Resolve.

[@vyoufinder]

The problem with the sync bin, as far as I can tell, is that you have to know which clips you want to sync together BEFORE you add them to the timeline. This is aproblem, because I need to see the track lengths as well as the sound waves to know which clips should be combined into a multicam clip. There's no way to create a multicam clip when you already have them manually synced up, is that right? I've already got my clips synced. I had to do it manually, because without knowing which clips go to which, and since Resolve cannot create multiple multitrack clips from multiple clips on multiple cameras all at the same time, the sync bin isn't helpful for me. The other problem is that with resolve, the media bin doesn't show the filename when you hover over the files. So if you have a long filename, all you see in the media bin is (example) "NINJA _V_S001..." for each file. Pfft. There's no way to tell what the clip name is unless you right click on the file, then weed through the menu to find "Show Attributes" and click again. One by one for each file.That, plus the fact that when Resolve brings clips in, it doesn't display them in chronological order, they're just brought in in some random looking order.. The workaround would be to rename all the files to short filenames Resolve is capable of displaying in the media bin, but that isn't always an option.. Either that or sit there for an hour playing a memory concentration game with Resolve... So to figure out what clips go to which, I still have to use my old editor just to line them up easier. BlackMagic could make the tool actually useful for people like me just by making a few simple changes. Just let me see what the name of the file is without having to go through 3 mouse clicks, geez!

[@charliecooper3030]

I saved this because I knew I'd need it in the future, but it doesn't seem to work with sequential clips, such as GoPros from multiple angles. Creating a timeline with them or even a compound clip doesn't solve it as sync clip doesn't treat it as one continuous file. Is there any workaround that doesn't require spending hours exporting each angle to a singular clip?

[@RockyColaFizz]

This is an impressive feature. Wow

[@cahlajthepoetmc9746]

Thanks for the information and the explanation.

[@A1ZUDD1N]

Trying to port over to resolve from premiere, so thank you for these videos!! But nobody is saying Resolve sync bins and multicam dont work professionally! I have many different scenes to sync but resolve cant batch sync like how premiere does.... or am i missing something??? back to premiere for now.....

[@billtruttschel]

Should the sync bin only be used to sync different camera angles of the same event? Or can sync bin be used to sync events recorded at different times with the same camera? For example, if I record myself playing guitar, then I record myself playing the same song with drums but still need to sync the videos, is the sync bin where I would do that?

[@squidskunk]

how does this new multi cam address the audio of the clips..?

[@electronicbox6990]

Hello Alex! Great video as always. I want to give an idea for a topic that no one is talking about. Its called ""FRUSTRATION"" of a cut page. When I try to work in CUT page , from the first second , I am so confused and always i switch to the edit page. Why? Simply because when you select some part from a clip and you want to start from the begining, Resolve mysteriously put the clip somewhere in the field and it is always away from 00.00.00.00 at least visually. This thing just drives me crazy always.

[@abritablondeabike]

Looks good. I edit motorbike videos on 2 go pros and have never been able to sync the files because there are alot at the end of a day. So I always sync it manually. I would love to see you sync a long time line of lots of clips.

[@RT365]

Can I use your videos as reference for my videos. I love the way you explain things.

[@CoffeeTalkandTechJohnRyan]

super awesome cant wait to use it!

[@naecatalin8518]

How do you do multicam when you sync? Its work twith syncaila like Nest in Adobe Premiere. I have two dslr, each dslr has 50 files. when I give multicam it makes me 50 angles every dslr. and why should the recorder appear as a shooting angle? it seems silly to me

[@vincentoliver]

How does this work with a seperate Master audio track when using two or three cameras (each with its own audio, for guidance use only)

[@simioni]

From the video it appears that resolve is layering the clips, each with its own audio. So the sound from all the layers would play at the same time. With a master audio track this is fine, since the other layers will most likely be muted. But I'm also curious to know what happens if we actually need the audio from the clips... 🤔

[@Artkeh]

Is this only for multi-cam? If we only have one camera, but do several takes of the same thing from different angles, will this work, too?

[@tomsamuel4211]

Hey, I am currently working on a short film which we shot with 2 Cameras and multiple audio sources. I think the Cut Page is really good for editing this project but I want to devide the footage by scene and put every footage that belongs to that scene in one folder and cut the scene first and then put all the scenes together in one timeline. Is this possible? Can i also take the timline from the cut page and put it to the edit page? For Text, VFX and Credits etc? Would love to hear from you!

[@aqueminteressarpossa3445]

thank you brother, best brazilian regards

[@remiranda]

Can u please tell me what u think about how final cut handles multicam?

[@christopheririonfilms6053]

Does the sync bin only work with non-RAW files? I don't seem able to creabtate a folder to drop the DNG folders into in the Media page. Any ideas?

[@darrylsmith3102]

How do you Pin (Key Frame) Audio on individual Left or Right channels in the audio time line to do critical & Surgical Volume audio adjustments, Like you can in Final Cut 7 with the Pin Tool.

[@kayumangibrown5963]

That is a very useful..tnx for sharing

[@eddu4361]

Complex think explained well. Thx!

[@vyoufinder]

What if I sync by timecode, but my clocks on cameras aren't synced? I have lot of clips, all synced.. but not quite right. How do I adjust that later? I just need ot move one whole track over,.

[@vyoufinder]

Oh. Figured it out right after I asked.. You click to unlock the track after "open in timeline" the synced clip. Yours is the best video on the subject. As is the case with most of your videos I have seen. Thanks.

[@AndyKunkel]

This is going to be amazing for editing recitals and such!

[@mirceablue]

Hello! Can I create a sync bin after I manually sync the files in edit page ? sometimes Resolve have problem syncing automatically.

[@finnmullins7432]

How do I sync both Audio file and Clip file when the camera did not have onboard mic?

[@shotseeker3137]

I'm trying to use the sync feature on the cut page with 2 cam, 4ch audio sync. Everything syncs great but when use the multicam seq the audio comes in as stereo. if i switch the audio to the mixer with the 4ch it still only shows 2 channels in the timeline. If i drag the audio directly from the pool to the timeline it comes in as 4 mono channels separated on the timeline. Is there a way to use the sync and have it show the 4 channels on separate mono tracks as when pulling it in manually?

[@MUENTERMEDIA]

This is F A N T A S T I C :) Thank you very much for sharing this with us!

[@anatvivas]

Alex thanks!... You are the best!

[@retlwiz]

I'm not getting consistently good results from the Sync Bin and adding in clips manually seems very difficult, despite what the manual says. I try to use it I conjunction with the ATEM Mini Pro ISO, but I end up just stacking up the clips on the Edit Page and synching manually, with better and faster results. I like the idea of this, but as far as I can see, the execution still leaves something to be desired.

[@JeffBourke]

2 questions. 1: is it possible to scrub onto key frames only? In virtual dub I used to hold shift and scrub showing i frames only and it was so fast. 2. Outside of resolve, is it possible to view 2 clips from a multicam clip and play them synchronously with the same seek bar?

[@forhisglory1116]

Thank you Alex for this explanation. Much appreciated as always. :) You showed how to sync using the Audio-tracks of the different clips. QUESTION: If you have for instance a shot without a lot of audiot would it be sufficient for Davince to have just a noise (like a handclap or so) at the beginning of the shot to synchronize?

[@MatthewDHenderson]

Yes a clap works

[@cameron494]

do you use the sync bin process to create these videos? would love to see that tutorial!

[@MrMartinoBranding]

This is a perfect explanation, thank you. I see though that Resolve still doesn't handle very well when the clips are different. In my case it wasn't recognizing the audio to sync because the original clips had different channels/mono/stereo configurations. I changed those via "clip attributes" even though resolve should be smart enough to figure that out on its own. After I did that, it seemed like it wanted to sync but it keeps crashing. The clips also have different frame rates and that's something I will never be able to control. I tried to give the attribute of 30fps for both clips in clip attribute. Now it just crashes every time I try to sync. Also, clip attributes cannot be set in bulk. Any ideas in regard?

[@sanjaykambleart8195]

well explained...thx

[@ifaanuur9649]

shortly Blackmagic is trying to create Plureleyes inside Davinci resolve. that is a great idea. but, this feature works only for single clips, if you have 20 clips from camera 1, 20 clips from camera 2, 10 clips from camera 3, sync bin won't help you. you have to go to plural eyes or similar software.

[@altvideo]

Great tutorial, great feature.

[@ryangreen3267]

How does this work, if one of the clips in the sync bin is Audio Only from an External Audio Recorder?

[@NickMirro]

It doesn't. You'll need timecode or to do it manually. Note sync by timecode in DR is not reliable at all. Even now at 17.2

[@_arturjutkowiak_film]

It would be great to see it work but it does not. Davinci fails to recognize properly audio.

[@alessandrospenga.video6]

I'm about to start editing another music video, so I was really interested to know more about this. But I usually work with 10/18 camera angles in sync. I guess multicam might still work better for that task.