Have you ever wondered how your favorite youtuber or singer gets perfectly good quality audio
Especially when they're using an external USB microphone and recording with their iPhone
Well, if you have I'm gonna show you how you can record video with your iPhone
Audio with the USB microphone and how you can sync the two together to make a perfect video
So at the moment we're recording the video with our DSLR
But now we're going to switch to the iPhone and as you can hear we've also switch the audio to the iPhone built in microphone
and it sounds a bit tinny, a bit echo a bit distant and this is what the sound comes like from the iPhone itself and
A lot of youtubers start off this way because the iPhone is actually a pretty good camera
Filming on but the audio is where it let's it down
So what we're going to do now is continue shooting with the iPhone
But now we've switched to the SL600
USB microphone and as you can already hear the audio quality is lovely and crisp there's a nice level of bass and treble to
the sound and it's taken out a lot of the
Distant sounds and echoes that were in the room before. So we've done this in post. It's really easy to do
So I'm going to show you a step-by-step guide on how you can do it, too
So step one is to download audacity
You can use any recording software
But audacity is available for both Mac and PC and it's free. Next, you need to plug in your SL600
to your Mac or PC and then select that as the input device for your computer as well as the recording software
You're using such as audacity. Step three is a little bit of a tip
You want to make sure your iPhone is on a tripod so it keeps the shot nice and steady
There's nothing worse than some shaky video footage. Step 4, hit record on audacity then hit record on your camera
So you're recording at the same time.
So now we've got the audio being recorded on the SL600
as well as the video and audio of the iPhone being recorded directly to the iPhone itself
So the next thing you want to do is a big clap when you're recording
This will be recorded into your SL
600 and the iPhones video and it allows you to sync up the audio and video a bit later on so it's a really important
step
So when you've finished recording make sure you press stop on your iPhone and stop in audacity now within
Audacity, you can export as an mp3 or wav a WAV file is a little bit higher
So I'd recommend doing that if you can okay, so next you'll need some basic video editing software
And for this example, we're using iMovie as it's free with a Mac for a PC
You can use something called video pad and will include the links below in the description
So I've already started a new project here in iMovie, and I've imported our video clip here and then our audio clip from audacity
so I've dragged down the section of the clip into iMovie and as you can hear as you can hear this is the
Audio and the video directly from the iPhone, which doesn't sound too great
So
As you can see here the audio, isn't that great?
So what we want to do is bring down this audio file here from audacity and sync it up now
What will happen here when you drag onto the timeline it will of course be completely out of sync if we play that back now
So you can hear the both audio files from the iPhone and audacity are playing at the same time
so the first thing you want to do is
Right click here on your video clip and click detach audio
then because we actually want to get rid of the audio which was recorded on the iPhone and we want to replace that with our
Really good, SL 600 audio. All you do is simply click this and then hit the Delete key
Now then the next thing we want to do is line up the audio perfectly, so it's fully in sync
Now this is why we did the clap at the beginning of the video clip because here you can see in the actual audio
Waveform you can see the clap peaking right there
So what we need to do is find a point in the video where you can see the clap happen
which is if we take it back to the start, which is about there and
Then what we do is if we drag the audio along to that point and get it all lined up you should see
That luckily this is kind of almost perfect already for us. But if we now play that back you should see that the audio is
Perfectly now in time. Let's play it back and have a listen
So this is the video footage coming straight from the iPhone and the audio is being recorded with the SL 600
The problem we have is that the iPhones video and audio are linked. So there you have it
Ok, so now I'm going to show you how to sync the audio together using video pad on a PC or a Mac
I've imported the video footage here into video pad
Using the add file section here, and I've added the audio file from from audacity in here
So basically, all you need to do is get your clip
Let's drag that into the video
Section there and that will add that to the timeline and you'll see here you have the audio and the video
from the iPhone if we play that through
So you can see there that the audio is not particularly great
So what we're going to do next is get our audacity audio file
We're going to click and drag that and we're going to click in this little section here at the bottom to create a new mix
Now you can see that we have three layers. We have the video
We have the iPhone audio and then we have our audacity SL 600 file. So what we want to do is
Sync these two files up. And this is why we did the clap at the start of the video
So this is why we did the clap at the start of the video file and you can see here as we drag this along
If you look at the start of the waveform here just under the red cursor
That's where we made our clap. And then if you look at the iPhones audio file here, you can also see that clap
So what we don't want to do is we want to move this and then sync them up
Luckily that clips are almost the same length
So they sync up quite well now if we play them together at the same time
you'll hear both the
IPhones audio and the SL 600 audio being played at the same time so we can do that here by clicking on the audio track
One we want to right click that and then unlink from video
Once that's unlinked you can just click onto the file hit delete or right click and then delete
This will remove the iPhones audio and it will leave you with your clean crisp e SL 600 audio
It'll now sound perfectly great
So this is the video footage coming straight from the iPhone and the audio is being recorded with the SL
600 the problem we have is that the so there we have it you now have some clean audio
Some clean video and you can now export this file so you can use it on your new YouTube channel
So that's it. You've now got a great video with some great audio which you can now upload to YouTube
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