Help me with my AE project

[Mike Park]

Ill take a stab at your question 1

I am assuming that you recorded audio along with your video. I am also assuming that the music was in the background and that your talent lip synced in time with the music in the background. So then the only thing you need to do is sync the clean audio (studio version) with the background audio from the video. If this is the case, it would be easiest to twirl down the audio from the video and match up the wave forms. Pick a prominent wave point and move the audios into sync.

However, if your problem is that your talent was off quite a bit on the lipsyncing with the background music, you will have a much tougher time and will have to hand correct everything based on the lips of the talent. If you have multiple camera angles, you can cut back and forth to help instead of trying to speed the video footage up and down to sync to the clean audio.

Best of luck

[Blahtor Magnus]

Hi, what you describe is the simplest way that is good only for rough matching of the tracks.

It is not good for real sync because no one can lypsinc 1:1 with the recording.
You can get very close, but without post-production tricks, it will not be PERFECT like in those MTV videos.

I am interested in those tricks.
Are there any of them for After Effects?

Another thing: I noticed that if I cut up the video, using “Alt + [” and then move the cut up part, the audio doesn’t follow.
It seems that the audio track does not get cut together with the video track.
This makes things even WORSE and does not allow me to even roughly match the tracks.

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[Mike Park]

I personally would not use AFX to rough cut the tracks. I would use the cut tool in Premiere, then export the project to AFX for effects. You will have better control and the audio is much easier to work with in Premiere. When you export the Premiere project to After Effects, each cut will come in as a seperate layer, allowing you to tweak individual cuts. That way, you can do the fine tuning in Premiere with the lip syncing by hand, and do post in After Effects.

FWIW

Best of luck

[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, I will download the Premiere trial.
How do you do the lypsinc by hand in Premiere?

[Joey Burnham]

I doubt that somebody will answer this. If you want to learn the software read the manual and find tutorials online. Not a quick fix.
Best,
Joey

[Chris Wright]

1. Is there a way to synchronize the lips of a singer to a soundtrack?

Read this carefully.

https://www.equipmentemporium.com/Articles/audiosyncplayback.htm

[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, thanks. I will deal with the lipsync somehow.
I no loger consider it a problem.

What about the other two issues that I am having?
Anyone with an idea how to solve them?
I mean these problems:

2… I am going to use 3D drums from a 3D PSD for the music video.
I can’t make them work, though.
I have the 3D PSD with the drums and when I import it in the composition (it’s a 720 HD comp), it looks like it’s way too low-res – jagged, small and blurry. I tried enlarging the PSD in PhotoShop CS4, but it didn’t help with the low-res look in After Effects.

3… Also, that same PSD with the 3D drums shows it’s control gizmo far from the drums in AE’s 3D space.
Is there a way to make the gizmo coincide in space with the actual 3D drums, so to make things easier to move and rotate? It is a real PITA to work with a gizmo that is 100 virtual feet away from the 3D object it is controlling.
Maybe there is a way to fix this in PhotoShop CS4?

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[Blahtor Magnus]

OK, seems that these questions need to be in a separate thread after all.

[Chris Wright]

try enabling the continuously rasterize button on, aspect ratio button off, quality full in view comp, interpret fields as appropiate, motion blur etc…