Synchronize audio and video

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how to synchronize audio and video clips to ensure your video and audio are in perfect sync, improving the quality and clarity of your edit.

Adobe Premiere Pro provides a method for synchronizing audio and video called Merge Clips. This function streamlines the process by which users can sync audio and video recorded separately (a process sometimes called double-system recording). 

Use Merge Clips to select a video clip and synchronize it with up to 16 audio channels.

You can select a video clip and sync it with up to 16 audio channels by using Merge Clips. Clips that make up the merged clip are referred to as component clips.

Clips can be merged by group selecting them in either the Project panel or the Timeline.

You can merge one or multiple audio clips with a single video or AV clip. The total number of audio tracks permissible in a merged clip is 16, including any combination of mono, stereo, or surround 5.1 clips. A single mono clip counts as one track, a single stereo counts as two tracks, and a 5.1 clip counts as six tracks.

Note:

Creating a merged clip does not replace or alter the source clips.