Sync Video & Audio

broo0591 · Post by **broo0591** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:15 pm

I am a relatively new user to Video Studio 9 and have been tasked to put together a "music video" of a performance captured on several different DV cameras. I hope I am not showing my ignorance here, but what is the best way to sync the base audio and video files while transitioning to other video files at different camera angles?

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:20 pm

Lay your audio track and drop your pictures on top of it using the audio on your video file as a sync guide to your main track. Then mute your video file.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:25 pm

Put your base track in the Video Track. Put your "cut-aways" in the overlay track and mute the audio. If you like, you can use the Split Audio command to put the audio from your base track into the Audio Track. That way you can use audio filters or manipulate the volume more easily.
If you are going to be doing more of this in the future you may want to consider upgrading to version 10. It has 6 overlay tracks. That way you could put each camera's angle on its own track.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:25 pm

Although its in the MediaStudio forum view this.
http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=13375

broo0591 · Post by **broo0591** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:39 pm

Thank you for your advice. I will definitely upgrade to VS 10. In VS 10, is there an easy way to sync each of the tracks, or will I have to adjust/move each one separatel, using the individual audio profiles as a guide?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:41 pm

Don't know if this will help you in this instance, but keep in mind in the future: Synching audio can be difficult. But synching video is easy if you can cue it to a camera flash or, in the case of a band, stage lights going on or changing. Once you have all your clips (in the separate overlay tracks) synched up visually, the audio will be too. If you aren't lucky enough to have a visual cue this time, the synching will have to be trial and error, as VideoStudio does not do that for you. However, in VS10, there are chapter markers that you can put along the timeline. You can actually use these as audio markers to synch to, then remove them after you are done.

TDK1044 · Post by **TDK1044** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:29 am

You only ever want to touch the main audio track once, and that's when you lay it as your first move in making your music video. I've made music videos professionally using Avid and as a hobby using Video Studio and the process is always the same. Lay the audio and then paint the sync pictures. If you have control of your shooting environment, then start your cameras recording and then go and stand where you can be seen by all of them and clap your hands once. This clap will give you the equivelent of a timecode sync point, and you can then calculate duration from that clap point on each camera at the edit.