- If you record external audio for your videos,
you know that syncing it can be an infernal struggle.
I've personally spent hours nudging clips together
with the period and comma keys until they line up perfectly.
But there's a much easier way to do this in Final Cut Pro.
So like MTV in the late nineties, it's time to get N'Sync.
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Transition....So I've got my Final Cut open.
I'm going to create a new project.
We'll just call this in N'sync.
I'm going to import my clips
which is important to remember.
So for this example, I've got four clips that I recorded
for my podcasting course.
I have a screen recording, the main camera, an audio file
and a B camera, my camera over here on the side.
So I'm gonna select all those and import them.
So now they're all here in Final Cut.
They do all have audio recording.
Some of them like my B camera
as you can see here, have very big audio files.
My screen share had audio recording
but my main camera wasn't connected
to a microphone and its audio level was turned really low.
So it actually has a really low volume
and it doesn't really seem to matter.
So sit back, cause this is a little bit complicated.
I'm going to select my clips, right click?
Click and click synchronize.
And then I'm just going to give it a name.
I usually like to call it, you know, main heart synced.
I usually like to use the word synced in it, click, okay
it's going to take a second to go through all that.
And now I have main parts synced.
I can drag this down here.
It looks like one clip
and it's going to have really loud volume as well.
But when I double click on it
here's all my clips totally synced up.
So now all of my clips are already seeing they're not
the exact same length.
So final cut just takes the longest one
and puts that as the main source.
And then the rest kind of fit in wherever they go.
They're close in length, but you can see here.
Like I ended them at different times.
If we go to the beginning
I started them at different times.
The screen recording started first.
So that's the one that is the longest.
Now all I need to do is just mute the audio from all
of these other files.
And I just want to keep it this audio down here
which was recorded into the Rodecaster Pro.
So that's really it in terms of syncing things.
If I click this little back arrow, then I go back
to my timeline and here's how I edit my clips
from this point is I double click on them to open them up.
And I add in my basic like color corrections and stuff.
So in this case, I have a preset that I'm going to add.
It works just the same as normal video.
So now I have them colored the way that I want
and I can just go through and start editing like normal.
So if you want to cut through multiple layers at once
you can just press, you can just put the play head where
you want and press shift command B, and it will cut
through all those layers.
And then just delete in this case, it connected everything
to the screen-sharing clip because that was
the longest clip.
So whatever you want to be, your main thing
that everything is connected to start recording there.
First, I'm going to delete that and it deletes everything.
(soft snazzy music)
I've gone through and I've made my basic assembly edit
but it's all pretty much just on my main shot.
So this is where I'm going to go through
and start switching between them.
Now, why wouldn't I just use multicam for this?
I did an entire video all
about how to use multicam editing in Final Cut.
It's a great resource.
This would fit in multicam really well
because it also syncs stuff up
for me for whatever reason, this is sometimes just easier
which by the way, it will match it.
So things don't go out of sync.
Sometimes your audio needs to be sped
up or slowed down by like 0.01%.
And it will do that automatically.
So you don't have to worry about it, which is pretty great.
But even though multi cam editing is simple
and probably for a situation like this, the better choice.
The thing with video editing
and video production is there's usually more
than one way to do just about everything.
And I kind of feel that if it works, it works.
So don't stress yourself out
over being perfect and being technically correct.
If what you're doing is working, it's working
that's really all that matters.
And I liked this
because it lays everything out in front of me.
There's something I've been trying to do in my editing
which is avoiding jump cuts more than I used to.
And I know on YouTube jump cuts are fine
but I feel like it
adds a little more visual interest not to have them.
So let's do this part right here is a free platform
or a paid one.
So let's start with free.
That jump cut is fine.
Like it doesn't look bad
but to make things a little more interesting
I could go up here.
So I'm gonna press a V to activate this clip or a paid one.
(on screen audio: "So let's start with free
because that's what everyone always wants to know first.")
Okay. And then there, I can press B and just cut this clip
go back to a press V to deactivate it.
And then this one
I'm also going to make inactive and jump to the share.
So now I go from my main shot or a paid one.
So let's start free to my B camera.
That's what everyone always wants to know first
the most part.
Okay. And to my screen share.
And that's a lot more interesting
than just a regular jump cut.
Similarly, what am I do is I have another jump cut here
(on screen audio: "and of course
Anchor will help you distribute your podcast too.")
is I might just press shift command B.
And then this one I might punch in a little bit.
I know that for me, if I do 138% scale
and then just push it down a little bit
so that my hair just touches the top, that'd be super fun.
And of course, anchor will help.
That kind of also covers up jump cuts.
So by having these two cameras
I basically have three camera angles.
I have my main shot.
I have a punched in version of the main shot
and I have my B camera over here
and I've got the screen share.
So without even filming any other B roll footage
I've got four different angles to cut between.
And I kind of just go through this and do that
jump back and forth where I need to
if I think I might later on decide that I want a shot.
I usually just leave it inactive by pressing V.
And what this does is it's kind of a note to myself.
So I know obviously when I'm editing
that my main shot is the one that's being selected
but this B camera clip is still there.
The fact that it's there and inactive means
that I'm telling myself, Hey, you're not using this
but if something doesn't look right and you feel
like you need to use this, go ahead and do that.
Whereas if I know like here, I don't want to do this.
Cause the camera went out of focus or I look really stupid
or whatever, then I'll just delete it.
And it's not an issue at all.
So that's what I'll do
with everything that's synced together.
And then I'll go back to the main timeline.
Now, once you've done that
you've cut stuff out and trim things together.
So what you'll notice is there's a whole lot of black
cause this is how much stuff I cut out.
So it's very important to then go.
And I just use the arrow keys to go
to the last frame and then command B to cut it.
Boom. And then it'll just go right into the next shot.
Now you can add in audio and stuff.
I could bring in sound effects.
I could bring in music to this like nested clip right here.
But I personally like to do all that stuff
on the main timeline with all
of the other clips instead of attendance.
So there we go.
That's my now edited clip.
I can double click on it and go back and play with it
hop out here and jump on my timeline.
I can do command B and then split that clip.
I can even move another thing into it.
So if you're somebody who does a lot
of external audio recording, this can be a total lifesaver
because it's so quick and it's so easy.
And like I mentioned before, it automatically
makes sure your audio doesn't drift out of sync.
If you're working with longer clips, 10 minutes, 20 minutes
and beyond sometimes you'll notice it starts off in sync
and you spend all the time lining it up and then over time
it sort of drifts and you have to cut it and reposition it
cut it and reposition it.
There's a lot of reasons that can happen, but this
at least takes care of it.
So you don't have to worry about it anymore, which is great.
So finally, I'm going to cut to the chase and say
I hope you can see all the pros to this method
in Final Cut Pro, if you want to learn more
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