Matching up video & audio.

[Tybo727]

I am a new to video editing and am using Adobe Premiere Elements 10. One thing I have yet to figure out is matching up video to the audio. For example a moving mouth to lyrics as in a music video. I want to match up my audio file(song) with the video that is playing of an individual singing lyrics(moving his mouth). Any ideas/easy ways? If you need any other information let me know, all help is appreciated.

[gonwk]

Hi Tybo727,

I found this for you ... see if it helps!

How to Sync Audio and Video in Premiere Pro

G!

[Tybo727]

Thanks a lot, I tried to do that and there is other background audio in the video so it doesn't have a waveform correlation to an mp3 audio. Also would it be be better to edit and make the whole video then match up the audio or to match it up as I go?

[Tybo727]

I'm trying to sync more of a video(that has no audio to it) with just the mouth moving to an external audio clip.

[hech54]

Did the person lip-syncing use the original video as a model/guide?

[Tybo727]

No but he used the original external audio, but was listening to it himself, all u can see is his lips and background noise in the video.

[hech54]

Well if he used the original as a model....Ii personally would use something like AviDemux or VDub to sync the new audio to the video(or vise versa). Both have the capabilities to easily adjust the audio sync.

[Tybo727]

But there is no sound in the video, just his lips moving. Then I added sound(external audio) and want to match up an audio with a picture.

[hech54]

Add the video to VDub, then add "audio from an external source" and sync it up.....export as HuffyUV and WAV/PCM audio. You need to do a BIT of prep work first though. Try to match the start times of the video and audio and edit the audio to the same video clip length(or close to it).
I don't use premier so I don't know how easy or difficult syncing audio is in that one. I use Magix for really tough sync jobs where editing and syncing is involved.