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Title: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: Ringside on March 28, 2013, 10:30:49 PM
Hello all,

I know a lot of you have done it, but I've never tried syncing video with a separate audio recording before. Which software is good for a novice? I'll be adding wav files to avchd video recordings.

Any links to guides explaining the process would also be excellent if anyone has any such things.

Thanks all!

- Ross
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate au
Post by: beatkilla on March 28, 2013, 11:53:09 PM
Sony Vegas is what i use and has free 30 day trial so go ahead and download it now.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: ScoobieKW on March 29, 2013, 12:00:58 AM
Vegas. The different versions are mostly about how many layers (text and video) you can work with.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: Ringside on March 29, 2013, 01:16:01 AM
Thanks guys. Got Vegas running now. Time to hunt for tutorials.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: taperdave on March 29, 2013, 07:13:36 AM
I found Sony Vegas pro 12 to a be a HUGE upgrade to prior versions in smoothness, speed, lack if crashing etc.

In a nutshell toss the pieces into the timeline, pan one source hard right and one source hard left then get a kinda close sync around a loud prominent sound (a first snare drum hit to begin a song is a nice cue), now maximize the height of the two sources and zoom in to the nice cue you selected (good idea to drop a marker here), visually align the cue sound and then listen (you can slow down the speed of the paly in the lower left corner if that helps), now zoom in a little more and visually align a little better and listen again, repeat till perfect.
HINT: only move one clip (whichever one is shorter)
HINT TWO: place your longest, most complete clip in the top line of the project, pan it hard left and compare all other clips to this reference clip
HINT THREE: do NOT join audio or video clips in another program first, this sucks but most devices drop a few frames between clips, if you join them they look fine but if you play them against a continuous source they don't match properly, do all your alignment in vegas, for me the Sony M-10, does not drop samples, the editrol does (about 3.5-3.75 frames) and the Sony and Panasonic cams do (my panny drops exactly three frames at each split, about a twentieth of a second).
HINT FOUR: save a lot with new file names, so if you botch something, you can go back to a prebotch save without wondering what is what

Dave
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: Ringside on April 12, 2013, 03:55:29 PM
Thanks for this info taperdave.....been enjoying Vegas so far but still have a lot to learn.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: colargol on September 20, 2014, 08:18:30 AM
Hi!
Any other editing software that is recommended for AVCHD-editing? I would also like to sync another audio track...
If I was getting the Vegas, which one is the version to get? Is the EDIT version enough?
-colargol
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: beatkilla on September 20, 2014, 10:00:38 AM
Im pretty sure even the cheapest Vegas allows several audio tracks these days.You can download a trial of a few different versions(studio)(Pro) and use one for 30days than download another for 30 more :laugh:
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: voltronic on September 20, 2014, 01:36:11 PM
Another vote for Vegas here.  Also, if you're exporting videos to go online, I use the recommended settings here to get the maximum quality out of minimum file size:
http://vimeo.com/help/compression (http://vimeo.com/help/compression)

If you watch the Vegas-specific tutorial video though, the one thing I do differently is to have the audio bitrate set to 48kHz, which is both the format I record in and what Vimeo's written guide on the left recommends.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: colargol on September 21, 2014, 08:19:31 AM
I tried a trial version of vegas, which seems to be a great program...
However, the trial version has a "made with Vegas pro" logo on the outputted video, which is a bummer, because I only wanted to edit one video, and therefore it does not feel right to buy the program...
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: beatkilla on September 21, 2014, 09:13:20 AM
Oh wow all Vegas trials used to be full with no watermarks,i didn't know they had changed that. :-[
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: beatkilla on September 21, 2014, 09:29:24 AM
It looks like watermark came in with 12 and 13 so try 10,9,8etc.pro,studio

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/vegasfamily
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: colargol on September 25, 2014, 04:02:59 PM
It looks like watermark came in with 12 and 13 so try 10,9,8etc.pro,studio

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/updates/vegasfamily

Thanks, I tried version 11, it did not have the logo in trial version.
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: JoeRay on October 09, 2014, 09:13:59 AM
If you use MAC, Dual Eyes is the simplest and most accurate...
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: DF81 on October 13, 2014, 01:32:05 PM
I've said before, Final Cut Pro has a sync track feature that uses an algorithm to sync audio tracks, rather than lining the up manually.  This is an excellent feature I wish Logic Pro X would include w/ an update.

This is a new thread, but anyone good w/ color grading?
Title: Re: Best software for a beginner looking to start syncing video with seperate audio?
Post by: LIVEMUSIC752 on September 01, 2016, 09:26:40 PM
Another vote for Vegas here.  Also, if you're exporting videos to go online, I use the recommended settings here to get the maximum quality out of minimum file size:
http://vimeo.com/help/compression (http://vimeo.com/help/compression)

If you watch the Vegas-specific tutorial video though, the one thing I do differently is to have the audio bitrate set to 48kHz, which is both the format I record in and what Vimeo's written guide on the left recommends.
i am a newbie and got vegas pro 13 and overwhelmed to say the least.
is there anything lamens terms on the internet for help