look I know that you're scared about this but we can get through it together
and it's easier than you think what is up people Dunna here and today we're
talking about something that scares a lot of people when it comes to their
videos and it's really stopping them from taking it to the next level and
that is how to sync video and audio in Premiere Pro and why you should be doing
it I recently made a video that was three and a half different audio setups
that you could be using for your videos I explain some of the pros and cons of
each and where you might want to use them now two of the ways that I
explained meant that you had to sync the audio with your video in post-production
and I get it you don't want to go to the trouble of having to sync in post and
figure out different files and where they're coming from and where they're going to
but if you're gonna take all that time to make sure that your videos looking
crispy why you slacking on the audio I promise
you can make your audio sound ten times better by taking two extra minutes to
record externally either on an external recorder or even on your phone so here's
an example of what it sounds like if you're listening to the microphone
that's on top of my camera it doesn't sound super good because the microphones
so far away and this is what it sounds like if I take an extra couple of
minutes to make sure that my audio is bangin and by that I mean there's a boom
mic just out of the shot and it's a lot closer to my face so we're getting
better audio you tell me which one you like better
okay okay I'm pretty sure I've convinced you at this point let me tell you what
you're gonna need and how we're gonna do it okay first of all what you're gonna
need you'll need either an external recorder or you can use your phone next
you're going to need some kind of microphone whether that be a boom mic a
lav mic the mic built into the external recorder or the mic built right into
your phone the goal is to get the microphone as close to the sound source
as possible so in this case it would be my mouth if you don't mind having the
microphone in your frame then great just try and get it as close to your mouth as
possible without ruining the shot obviously if you don't want to see the
microphone in the frame there are a couple of little things that you can do
if you're using a boom mic like me you can get it
just out of the frame like it's not even an inch out of the frame right now or if
you have a lav mic which I use sometimes you can hide it just inside the person's
shirt if you want to record with the microphone on your phone you can
actually hide it in your front pocket if you're wearing a shirt that has one like
I said whatever your specific case is whether you're okay with having it in
the shot or not just make sure you get your microphone as close to the sound
source as possible okay so now we've figured out how we're going to record
we've chosen one of the methods that I've said and we're ready to roll here
are a couple of tricks to make your life way easier when it comes to syncing this
up later you know that fun classy smacky thing that you see on Hollywood sets and
and behind the scenes that's called the slate and one of the functions of a
slate is to be able to sync audio and video in post now I don't have anything
quite that fancy but what I can use are these guys right here so what you want
to do is you want to make sure that you're rolling on your audio and your
video and you want to clap once in frame now when you get this into
post-production what you can do is you can line up the timing of when your
hands hit together and the spike in the audio and now you're just like a
Hollywood director kind of now remember every time that you start and stop your
audio and your camera you're gonna want to make one of these slates it's gonna
make your life way easier in the end just turn them both on give a quick clap
on camera and you're good to go another tip is to make sure that your rolling
sound on your camera - this is another thing that in post-production will make
it nice and easy because you'll be able to look at the waveforms of the audio
from the camera microphone and from your external microphone and then you can
just line them up based on how they look and the third tip is to make sure that
your levels look good remember again from my previous video that the rule of
thumb is to make sure that your audio levels are about three-quarters of the
way up the meter so on both your camera and your external recorder make sure
that if you have the ability to set levels you set it to about 75% of the
way up the meter okay so we've got our slate clap done we've recorded our audio
separately and we've recorded our video on our
video camera obviously so let's head over to Premiere Pro and sync these
suckers up okay so once you've created a new project in Premiere Pro you're gonna
want to first and foremost create a new sequence once you have a new sequence at
the settings that you want you're going to drag in your video clip next we're
gonna drag in the matching audio file and bonus points if you've gone in and
named them so that they match sometimes I do sometimes I'm a little lazy now
there are a couple of ways that we can sync them up at this point the first one
is automatically what you can do is you can highlight both the audio and the
video right click hit synchronize choose the option to synchronize with audio and
hit OK I would say this works about 85% of the time and what you want to do
afterwards is just make sure that it worked well so we're going to hit this
little button right here in the drop down menu choose show audio time units
what this is going to do is allow us to move with a much more fine movement
instead of being constricted to the frames of the video so we can move our
audio around by a more miniscule amount and make sure that we're getting it
right on and now we're gonna go in find our slate and we're gonna line up the
spikes between the audio track and the audio that was recorded along with the
video now let's say for some reason the automatic version is just not working it
can't seem to figure it out here's the way that you can do it a little bit more
manually after you've imported both your video and your audio you're going to
choose show audio time units again and you're going to go to your video track
and find your slate once you've found your slate drop your cursor click the
video track to highlight it and hit M this is going to drop a marker then
we're gonna go to our separate audio and we're going to do the same thing we're
gonna drop a marker right where the slate happens now we're going to again
highlight the video and the audio at the same time right click hit synchronize
and we're gonna choose to synchronize by marker now you hit OK it's gonna line up
those two markers and you're good to go if by some weird chance this second way
is working for you the third way to do it
is total manual mode all you're gonna do is get your video in the timeline get
your audio in the timeline find it the clap point in both tracks and just line
them up manually again if you use show audio time units you'll be able to make
more fine adjustments one thing that you can do after you're done is you can
unlink the original audio by right-clicking on the video and clicking
unlink then if you click the video and our external audio by holding shift
right click and hit link now those two are linked together and you'll be able
to edit them however you want now that may have seemed like a bit of a process
during this video but that's just because I was explaining all of the
different ways you can do it really this takes me like 20 seconds per clip it's
not a huge deal once you get it in there you'll be thankful you did now I want to
turn this over to you guys are you using external audio are you recording
straight into the camera drop a comment below let me know how you're doing your
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