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PluralEyes User Story: Hugh Buttsworth (Stellar-Visions)

"It was one of those things where I tried it out and I didn´t think twice, I just bought it," said Hugh Buttsworth. "It´s a great price, and [those] guys oughta be proud."

Hugh´s production company, Stellar Visions, is based in Perth, Australia and specializes in high-end wedding videos. "One of our main things is to be using multiple cameras," he said. "But of course with that meant we had to sync every camera with every take, and that used to suck up all our editing time."

Hugh and his team were forced to keep the cameras continuously rolling to avoid slipping out of sync, which prevented them from capturing the little moments that make weddings special. "We´d have to have the cameras running the whole time while synced up, so for a three camera shoot at a wedding we´d have to have the full hour going straight." The need for synchronization also made editing difficult, said Hugh. "We´d have that whole hour and have to capture it from the camera, and it was much more than we´d need in the final cut."

After the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, Hugh learned about PluralEyes from a friend on the AVPA (Australian Video Producers Association) forum. "He said that he had been to NAB and that PluralEyes had been at the Singular Software stand… I saw a little bit of an interview online with Bruce [Sharpe, CEO of Singular Software] and I said well, if it works as it does in the video, I´ll try it."

PluralEyes quickly became an important tool in Hugh´s arsenal. "We've had a few shoots since we got PluralEyes and since the camera captures each take in a separate quicktime file, PluralEyes just syncs it up and puts it all in different spots. It helps in the project overall because it means you can get a shot knowing that you´re not having to keep the camera rolling while you do it. You're not feeling quite so inhibited with what you're stuck with, you can just go out and have a bit of fun and shoot the good stuff. If there's a shot you want out of sync or at a different time, it's no problem. It's nice to know that you don't have to worry about turning the camera off or changing a tape," said Hugh. "It's just amazing that it can do that. It's just really really handy."

PluralEyes saved Stellar Visions money as well. With much less wear on equipment and less footage to deal with, Hugh could cut costs and sweeten his bottom line. "I went and got two of my cameras serviced the other day and one of them cost me seven hundred bucks. The saving on tapes, the saving on camera heads, saving on time... Getting PluralEyes was a bargain."

"I'd thoroughly recommend PluralEyes," he said. "It's like having a vision switcher in post rather than having to re-invent the wheel every time you do an edit; it's just ready to go. I really like that. I love the fact that it allows me to be creative because I don't have to worry about the syncing of shots. I haven´t seen anything lacking in the software, unless I´m counting myself - I like it too much!"

Hugh´s production company, Stellar Visions, is an accredited member of The Australian Video Producers Association, licensed with AMCOS ARIA, and is a member of WEVA International. Their website and services are available at www.Stellar-Visions.com

PluralEyes User Story: Kate O´Hara (Khmer Arts)

"I am currently volunteering at Khmer Arts, a non-profit arts organization and home to the Khmer Arts Ensemble, a classical Cambodian dance company, just outside of Phnom Penh.  I am training my Khmer colleagues in multicamera video editing.  Trying to create high quality multi-camera footage with limited equipment (no timecode synchronizing for us) is always a challenge. When it came to synchronizing the footage from our latest performance the flash camera shot was not going to help us as there had been major frame drop-outs during the course of filming.  Trying to solve this problem with a simple solution that did not totally baffle my co-workers has been my priority.  I saw PluralEyes recommended on a number of blogs.  As it syncs using sound waves it worked around the drop outs leaving gaps allowing us to make new whole video tracks. It has been fantastic in not only allowing us to solve the frame drop-out problem and to synchronize the 3 angles we filmed, but also sync the house mix which was recorded separately from the video."

http://www.khmerarts.org/researcharchiving.htm

PluralEyes User Story: Shaun Harris (Music Videos)

"Thought you might like to have a look at a live music vid I synced with PluralEyes.

Your software made this a snip to edit."