A PluralEyes alternative, built for today's Macs
For nearly fifteen years, syncing multicam by audio meant PluralEyes. The habit it created still holds: the sound every camera captured is the most reliable evidence a shoot day has. Sincou starts from that same principle and fixes the parts that aged.
What PluralEyes got right, and still holds
Audio is the source of truth
Slates get missed, free-run timecode drifts, jam sync gets lost. The sound two cameras recorded of the same event is the same sound, and the difference between them is exactly the offset. That principle has not aged.
One button, the whole day
The right interface for this task is almost no interface: footage in, timeline out. Sincou keeps that.
Hand off to the NLE as XML
Trading timelines as files works better than a plugin installed inside the editor, because it survives the editor's updates.
What changes in Sincou
Native on Apple Silicon
Processing runs directly on your Mac, with no translation layer. Nothing is sent to any server.
Confidence you can see
Every alignment carries a score. Sincou separates what locked, what deserves a look, and what fell outside, instead of handing everything back looking identical. A bad sync discovered in the screening room costs far more than a clip flagged in yellow.
Checking by ear, built in
A player that mixes the clips under the cursor in real time. Aligned sounds like a single source.
Ingest in the same application
Verified card copy, organized by date, job and camera. The program that syncs is the same one that knows where the footage came from.
One license
Buy once, activate locally, no subscription and no server deciding whether you get to work today.
How to move over
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Keep your folders as they are
One folder per camera, one per recorder. It's the same organization PluralEyes asked for, and exactly what Sincou reads.
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Drop the day and press Sync
There is no project to create and no configuration to get right first. The thresholds ship with defaults that work, and sit one click away if you want to change them.
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Export in the format you already used
FCP7 XML for Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, FCPXML for Final Cut. The same formats you were importing before.
Bring your next shoot day
Seven days fully unlocked. If the old flow felt familiar, this will feel like the same place, faster.