Pluraleyes 5

PluralEyes 5 is a standalone application and plugin that analyzes audio waveforms from video clips and external audio recordings. It listens to the "scrub audio" (the low-quality scratch track from your camera's built-in mic) and the high-quality WAV file from your recorder. Within seconds, it aligns them perfectly on a timeline.

Developed by Red Giant (now owned by Maxon), PluralEyes 5 was the final major iteration of a tool that saved filmmakers, journalists, and vloggers thousands of hours of manual clapperboard claps and timecode matching. pluraleyes 5

The timeline refreshed. Eleven tracks. Perfectly aligned. The clap of a metal door slamming shut at the 00:03:12:15 mark on the master audio now appeared at exactly the same frame on the GoPro, the RED, and the vertical iPhone footage. It was surgical. It was instantaneous. PluralEyes 5 is a standalone application and plugin

Professional sets use timecode (Tentacle Sync, Ambient). But run-and-gun documentary makers, YouTubers, and event videographers rarely have that gear. PluralEyes 5 replaced a $500 hardware solution with a $299 software license (now cheaper). Developed by Red Giant (now owned by Maxon),