Welcome to Media Sync Tool
Media Sync Tool syncs camera video with separately recorded audio using jam-synced timecode, then hands the finished, organized media to Final Cut Pro—no manual lining up required.
Sync any number of dual-system files
Using jam-synced SMPTE/EBU timecode and the metadata already embedded in your media, Media Sync Tool matches each camera clip to its external audio automatically. The process takes seconds, even for large batches, and it handles overlapping timecode along the way.
Whether you’re syncing a single shot or every shooting day of a TV season, your media is ready to edit moments after import.
Log continuity notes onto your clips
Beyond syncing, Media Sync Tool can read a continuity report and log scene, shot, take, and verdict data straight onto your clips—rating good takes as Favorites and marking NG takes as Rejected. It’s script supervisor notes turned into searchable Final Cut Pro metadata.
Log clips using continuity reports
A perfect pair for Final Cut Pro
Media Sync Tool includes an extension that lives directly inside the Final Cut Pro interface, so you can sync without switching apps. Drag and drop a library, an event, or individual clips into the extension and they’re synced in place. Either way, the result is written as FCPXML and arrives in Final Cut Pro as synchronized and multicam clips.
Use the extension in Final Cut Pro
Tune the results to your workflow
Settings let you shape how synced media is built and labeled—where multicam audio lands, how good and NG takes are marked, which clips to keep out of the sync, and more. The defaults work out of the box, and you can adjust them whenever a project calls for something different.
Driven by your media’s metadata
Media Sync Tool reads the metadata in your files—timecode, recorder track names, creation dates, and more—to produce accurate matches and to carry useful information onto the finished clips. Per-channel mixer track names from BWF/iXML audio, for example, are written as audio subroles so Boom, Lav, and other sources stay labeled in Final Cut Pro.
Discover how metadata drives the sync
Tip: New to dual-system sound? Start with the sync workflow for the quickest path from import to editing, then explore the settings once you know how the defaults behave.