Shoot examples: before and after
Seven real shoots, from one camera with a recorder to eight cameras. Every pair of screenshots: the footage just came in, and the same project after Sync. The numbers in the status bar are real, and so is the sync time.
| Cameras | Rec. | Difficulty | Files | Footage | locked | review | tail | % synced | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | easy | 6 | 10 min | 6 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 1.0 s |
| 1 | 1 | easy | 12 | 36 min | 7 | 4 | 1 | 91.7% | 2.6 s |
| 3 | 6 | medium | 117 | 2.8 h | 72 | 45 | 0 | 100% | 15 s |
| 5 | 1 | hard | 209 | 10.1 h | 141 | 48 | 16 | 92.3% | 30 s |
| 3 | 3 | hard | 241 | 17.3 h | 181 | 59 | 1 | 99.6% | 1 min 2 s |
| 8 | 1 | hard | 215 | 8.9 h | 185 | 29 | 0 | 100% | 29 s |
| 6 | 3 | very hard | 307 | 15.0 h | 214 | 49 | 44 | 85.7% | 1 min 5 s |
The percentage synced is the share of files that landed on the timeline (locked and review together); the rest is at the end. The sync time was measured by running the engine directly on a Mac with Apple Silicon, with the footage on a fast drive; in the animations the status bar shows a longer time because they were recorded from corpus runs at lowered priority. On another drive and another computer the time will differ.
One camera and a recorder
One camera, one recorder, 6 files, 10 minutes. The simplest case.
When there is nothing to check, the locked label changes to synced and the review number disappears entirely.
One camera and a recorder, a longer shoot
One camera, one recorder, 12 files, 36 minutes.
The four review clips stand in their right places in time: at those moments the recorder was not running, so there is nothing to confirm them with. One clip at the end: it holds silence.
Three cameras and six recorders
Three cameras, six sound devices (a recorder, lavs, a shotgun), 117 files, 2.8 hours. The footage was dropped as two folders, so the timeline has two labelled blocks with a dotted line between them.
An example of a shoot with many short takes and several sound sources at once: a shotgun, lavs, a recorder in the frame.
Three cameras, a GoPro, a drone and a multichannel recorder
Five devices of different classes: three cameras, a GoPro, a drone and a recorder with four and five channels. 209 files, 10.1 hours.
All 16 clips at the end are the drone: its files have no audio track, so there is nothing to sync them with. The GoPro track has a hatched band: a gap in the file numbering over a stretch that other cameras were recording.
Two cameras, a GoPro and three recorders
Two cameras, a GoPro with sound, two lavs on a recorder and the recorder itself, 241 files, 17.3 hours. The longest shoot on this list.
The four-channel GoPro takes are labelled 4ch. One clip at the end: b-roll shot when nobody else was recording.
Eight cameras on shared timecode and a recorder
Eight cameras, some of them jammed to shared timecode, and a three-channel recorder. 215 files, 8.9 hours.
Here the status bar has an arrow and a TC number: how many of the exactly synced clips sit on shared timecode. See Status bar.
Six cameras and three recorders
Six cameras of different classes and three recorders, 307 files, 15 hours. The hardest shoot the app is checked on: two cameras stood side by side, an old camcorder, a folder of pickups, and a recorder half a kilometre from some of the cameras.
The 44 clips at the end are mostly files with dead or very quiet sound, and pickups that were shot on their own. This is the shoot where review is worth going through on the timeline in your editor.