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When to Sync Sound?
Sorry for the novice questions, but I’m a new shooter.
I captured about 50 different takes on 2 cameras and recorded the audio on a separate source.
Is it better to sync all the video and audio with both cameras first, or to edit first and then sync the sound later second.
Thanks,
Matt -
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I personally think syncing the audio first is the best route; you don’t have to waste time meticulously trying to sync it at the end, especially if you have a ton of cuts, and you know during your edit if there were any problems with the separate audio instead of finding out at the end.
tony
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Yes, sync audio first and ave yourself a lot of headaches.
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Is it better to sync all the video and audio with both cameras first, or to edit first and then sync the sound later second.
Hi Matt,
Just lay the videos, and sync the audio with them first, it will help your edit all the way, at least thats how we all edit, Audio/Visual, lol…
Williams Samuel
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Thanks Everyone,
Just curious, how did editors sync sound before auto sync? Even with dual eyes, putting the two clips together and saving them as one file for every clip in your project sounds very time consuming.
Thanks again,
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That’s what clapping the slate is for. By clapping it you have one moment in the picture (when the two parts of the slate just joined) and one moment in the sound (the “clap”).
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[Matt Mullins] “Is it better to sync all the video and audio with both cameras first, or to edit first and then sync the sound later second.”
I think you are implying that you’ll sync the separate audio that corresponds directly to each take (and each camera). That’s straightforward and you can sync the audio first.
But what if the separately recorded audio from take 3 may be the best sound and the video from take 2 may be the best visual? You can actually (if the takes are very similar of course) edit the best sound to sync to the best visuals. In this scenario then, wouldn’t you decide your video edits first and align the best sound to them? Maybe I was lucky but I even did this by overlapping visual takes (I only used one camera) using the best separately recorded sound and it worked! The results may be a bit eerie as the layered video takes cross-fade but interesting visually for a music DVD.
I did my rough edits in Garageband to pick the best sound and then visually matched to the best video takes which could be different.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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