What is the best way to synchronize audio with the video?

[hasselblad]

What is the best way to synchronize audio with the video? Which software do you use?

[mike20021969]

A visual clap is good.

Corel Video Studio X5.

[poisondeathray]

You can manually sync it in an editor

or an automated option is Plural Eyes
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/pluraleyes/

[hasselblad]

A visual clap is good.

Corel Video Studio X5.

Thanks so much! What do you do if you forget to clap...? Thanks!!!!

[hasselblad]

You can manually sync it in an editor

or an automated option is Plural Eyes
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/pluraleyes/

Is there a great tutorial online for the manual sync?

[manono]

Here's a guide to doing it using AviSynth:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=167033

Me, I just use my eyes and ears.

[hech54]

Is there a great tutorial online for the manual sync?

You need to be MUCH more specific.
People here are assuming you used a video camera to record something from a distance....and also had an audio recording device recording THE EXACT SAME SCENE but in closer proximity.....is this correct?

[Cornucopia]

You can get free clapper apps for your Android tablet or iPad.

But if you ALREADY did a shoot without synchronization, you will have to add both A+V from your camera and A from your separate audio recorder and load them both into an NLE, put them BOTH into the timeline (for each set of clips) and zoom in until you can see the waveforms. Then try to match the waveforms. Unless they're coming from the same source, they'll never look exactly alike (especially if one is nearer), but you can often see when the onset/rise of a certain wave is starting at the same time in both tracks (you just shift one track earlier or later, leaving the other alone). Shift in Large increments (seconds), then in increasingly smaller increments (frames, quarter frames, milliseconds, samples) to fine-tune it.

There is a reason the pros do it that way - you just found out why, and I bet you won't forget again...

Scott

[hasselblad]

Is there a great tutorial online for the manual sync?

You need to be MUCH more specific.
People here are assuming you used a video camera to record something from a distance....and also had an audio recording device recording THE EXACT SAME SCENE but in closer proximity.....is this correct?

You are right!
I have photographed a wedding on the beach. My wife has filmed at the same time. I have put a microphone on the groom. Not the bride beacause her dress didn't allow me to hide it for abvious reasons. I have recorded the sound through my Zoom voice recorder. I have set up two DSLRs on tripods on both sides of the bride and groom and my wife recorded the wedidng ceremony. It was a beach wedding with considerable wind noise in the background. The two cameras were 10-15 feet away from the bride and groom. What I have is the voice and video recorded by the DSLRs. I haven't out an external mic on the DSLRs because of the wind noise. I have relied on the Zoom entirely.

Let me know if you need more details!

[hasselblad]

You can get free clapper apps for your Android tablet or iPad.

But if you ALREADY did a shoot without synchronization, you will have to add both A+V from your camera and A from your separate audio recorder and load them both into an NLE, put them BOTH into the timeline (for each set of clips) and zoom in until you can see the waveforms. Then try to match the waveforms. Unless they're coming from the same source, they'll never look exactly alike (especially if one is nearer), but you can often see when the onset/rise of a certain wave is starting at the same time in both tracks (you just shift one track earlier or later, leaving the other alone). Shift in Large increments (seconds), then in increasingly smaller increments (frames, quarter frames, milliseconds, samples) to fine-tune it.

There is a reason the pros do it that way - you just found out why, and I bet you won't forget again...

Scott

No, I won't, I am afraid... LOL!!!!