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Audio sync issue in Final Cut for music video
Hi guys, really hope you could help.
I’m editing a music video i shot this week
Essentially i have issues with sync.
I have a File with a count in playing from a stereo while we were shooting, the band mimed to this. now when i get it into final cut i’m lining up the audio with the count in cues.
I’m going into the audio viewer, scrubbing to the point where the audio starts in the video audio and marking that.
next i marked where the audio starts on the original audio file i used in the stereo.
Problem is that they seem to line up okay at the start but by the end of the clip they are way out of sync.
am i right in understanding that there is no way to select a section of the audio without it being subjected to a frame by frame selection, i want to go right into the audio and select an exact point instead of a “frame” if you know what i mean.
any help is as always greatly appreciated!
I’m new to this…..Wedding videos were my training!
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3 Replies
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Your post is hard to understand but easy to figure out. Looks like you are going to have to slip your audio to stay in sync. Tedious process but it works.
[Brian Shanahan] “I’m new to this…..Wedding videos were my training!”
Heard a similar story last night. Results were not good.Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Make sure that the audio file you’re bringing into your FInal Cut Pro project is a 48kHz 16-bit .aiff file. If it’s not, you can use Compressor to convert it.
When shooting music videos, its always a good idea to feed the the playback audio into at least one of the audio channels on the camera for reference. For example, if you were playing back the audio on a boom box or a PA system, you could take a line out from the boom box or music player and feed it to one of the camera’s audio inputs. If your camera has XLR audio inputs, you’ll need a converter box to do this, such as:
https://whirlwindusa.com/catalog/black-boxes-effects-and-dis/direct-boxes/pcdi
make sure you select line level on the camera’s audio input.
You won’t use this recorded audio as the final audio track in your project, but it helps to have a direct line feed to the camera so that you end up with a good clear reference track to match back to during editing.
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[Alan Okey] “Make sure that the audio file you’re bringing into your FInal Cut Pro project is a 48kHz 16-bit .aiff file”
And also make sure your default FCP project has exactly the same frame rate as the sequence you are editing. FCP stamps a frame rate on imported audio based on the default project. Matt Lyon wrote an excellent tutorial explain this and also explaining how to use an XML to fix a project. In your case the first thing is to correctly import a file and then see if it still drifts.
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