Topic: how do you sync audio/video?

[Ed.]

you might want to cut each song into its own track and then line up each track to the cameras audio.  i have this problem on occasion too.  but i try to mix in the camera audio a bit inbetween songs if i'm having a problem with synching.

this way the better quality audio only has a few minutes (or however long the song is) to get out of synch not a full show.

[willherrmann]

Cool, that's not a bad idea.  Thanks for the tip.

[Ed.]

no problem.  or if the camera audio is bad, even too bad for the clapping inbetween songs where the other source is spliced and theres a gap, you could always make the clapping between the songs its own track and stretch that.  it'd probably be less noticable than stretching the actual music.

[willherrmann]

Right!  I figured I could just use the clapping inbetween songs from the superior audio source and tweak that a little because it would be less noticeable.  Sounds like song-by-song is the best way to sync up audio.  Too bad it'll probably be a much more laborious process..

[Ed.]

its not too bad, i did a sbd/aud matrix this weekend and it took me under 2 hours to do it (only a 45 minute set tho).  however, video is a bit harder.

[silverbullet]

I've used Audacity before for quick jobs. Shows that run long 2hrs + seem harder because the songs near the end tend to be more out of sync.  Syncing each song or a couple of songs would be the way to go for me for long show recordings. Could be my camera is getting old.

Vegas users can buy a plug in called Excalibur 3.0 to help syncing up audio with video. I mainly tried the demo for it's multiangle use but syncing the audio is as simple as dragging the wav to the desired trim. I haven't tried this yet but sycing the audio to video for a song was very easy. Just match up a point in the video of a cymble crash to it's audio and Excalibur syncs it up. Matching up multiple videos is easy when hunting for a camera flash.  Humph, I really should cough up the C note for this plugin. You can download a working demo and use it for 15 days. Well worth the effort for any vegas users.