How to Properly Sync Your Video and Audio Together

Hey guys, so today I'm here with the NY in my series of videos showing you how to improve your video quality. So today we're going to be taking a look at how to properly sync your video and audio together. This is something that was very, very requested last time, so let me go ahead and give you guys a quick tutorial.

First of all, obviously, you're going to need the video. This is probably going to be from your camera or your camcorder, preferably one that will have some audio it helps you see but if not, that's not a huge deal. Then, you should also go ahead and pick up your audio from perhaps an external microphone, like USB or Zoom H1 or whatever.

Once you have both of these, just go ahead and drop them into your timeline on whatever video editor you like. Now, there are a couple of ways to do this. There's the automatic approach, which if you have an editor like Final Cut Pro 10, it will allow you to automatically do it, so it'll get it all perfectly synced out without having to worry about anything. Same goes for there are plugins for various editors not for everything but there are plugins that you can go ahead and pick up that again will do the same thing, we'll do it automatically for you.

However, if you don't have a video editor, you don't want to buy a plugin or anything like that. There is a very simple manual way of doing it. All you need to do and this needs to be done while you're actually filming is just clap. I'm going to go ahead and open up the uh the sound mixer, it's called in Coral, uh you might see his waveform or audio or something like that but basically just be sure that you can actually see the audio in wave form.

What I like to do is just clap so you guys can see there I clap and that it's a really nice loud noise allows me to go ahead and sync everything really nicely if it's just going to be audio and whatnot, it can get a little bit difficult but if you have a nice really loud clap and preferably if you can have it on camera it's very simple.

So once you have this and you have it on both so see you have one here as well as one here, just go ahead and trim this down doesn't have to be super precise at the beginning just get it roughly about right. I actually want to do that hang on a second let's just cut the top clip and delete all the beginning of it and then come down to our audio and do the exact same thing and then put them together and if we look here everything looks about synced up, we can go ahead and play through it and we should hear the clap just it shouldn't have any echo or anything like that, should just be able to hear the clap and it's about that simple guys.

Only other thing is if you can take your video editor and go ahead and lock your audio and video together as well as mute the uh the camera clip because odds are you're not going to want both audio or you just want to have your good microphone whatever it may be. There you guys go so at this point, you're all good to go just be sure to be careful when you're editing if you don't lock if you can't lock them together you don't know they don't get out of syn and you know half the video is you know the audio is way off or anything like that but as long as you can lock it together and be careful with your editing, you should have no problem.

And here we should have much better audio quality without having to spend a ton of time so anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely sure to subscribe to the channel and if you have any more tips that You like me to cover as far as making videos definitely sure to leave them in the comment section below.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys so today I'm here with the NY in my series of videos showing you how to improve your video quality So today we're going to be taking a look at how to properly Sy your video and audio together and this is something that was very very requested last time so let me go ahead and give you guys a quick tutorial so first of all obviously you're going to need the video so this is probably going to be from your camera or your camcorder a preferbly that will have some audio it helps you s but if not that's not a huge deal and then you should also go ahead and pick up your audio from perhaps an external microphone uh for example USB or Zoom H1 or whatever uh so once you have both of these just go ahead and drop them into your timeline on whatever video editor you like and then there's a couple of ways to do this now there's the automatic approach which if you have an editor such as Final Cut Pro 10 it will allow you to automatically do it so it'll get it all perfectly synced out without having to worry about anything uh same goes for there are plugins for various editors not for everything but there are plugins that you can go ahead and pick up that again will do the same thing will'll do it automatically for you however if you don't have a video editor you don't want to buy a Plugin or anything like that there is a very simple manual way of doing it so all you need to do and this needs to be done while you're actually filming is just clap so I'm going to go ahead and open up the uh the sound mixer it's called in Coral uh you might see his waveform or audio or something like that but basically just be sure that you can actually see the audio in wave form so what I like to do is just clap so you guys can see there I clap and that it's a really nice loud noise allows me to go ahead and sync everything really nicely if it's just going to be audio and whatnot it can get a little bit difficult but if you have a nice really loud clap and preferably if you can have it on camera it's very simple so once you have this and you have it on both so see you have one here as well as one here so just go ahead and trim this down doesn't have to be super precise at the beginning just get it roughly about right I actually want to do that hang on a second let's just cut the top clip and delete all the beginning of it and then come down to our audio and do the exact same thing and then put them together and if we look here everything looks about synced up we can go ahead and play through it and we should hear the clap just it shouldn't have any echo or anything like that should just be able to hear the clap and it's about that simple guys so uh only other thing is if you can take your video editor and go ahead and lock your audio and video together as well as mute the uh the camera clip because odds are you're not going to want both Audi or you just want to have your good microphone whatever it may be and there you guys go so at this point you're all good to go just be sure to be careful when you're editing if you don't lock if you can't lock them together you don't you know they don't get out of syn and you know half the video is you know the audio is way off or anything like that but as long as you can lock it together and be careful with your editing you should have no problem and here we should have much better audio quality without having to spend a ton of time so anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel and if you have any more tips that You' like me to cover as far as making videos definitely be sure to leave them in the comment section belowhey guys so today I'm here with the NY in my series of videos showing you how to improve your video quality So today we're going to be taking a look at how to properly Sy your video and audio together and this is something that was very very requested last time so let me go ahead and give you guys a quick tutorial so first of all obviously you're going to need the video so this is probably going to be from your camera or your camcorder a preferbly that will have some audio it helps you s but if not that's not a huge deal and then you should also go ahead and pick up your audio from perhaps an external microphone uh for example USB or Zoom H1 or whatever uh so once you have both of these just go ahead and drop them into your timeline on whatever video editor you like and then there's a couple of ways to do this now there's the automatic approach which if you have an editor such as Final Cut Pro 10 it will allow you to automatically do it so it'll get it all perfectly synced out without having to worry about anything uh same goes for there are plugins for various editors not for everything but there are plugins that you can go ahead and pick up that again will do the same thing will'll do it automatically for you however if you don't have a video editor you don't want to buy a Plugin or anything like that there is a very simple manual way of doing it so all you need to do and this needs to be done while you're actually filming is just clap so I'm going to go ahead and open up the uh the sound mixer it's called in Coral uh you might see his waveform or audio or something like that but basically just be sure that you can actually see the audio in wave form so what I like to do is just clap so you guys can see there I clap and that it's a really nice loud noise allows me to go ahead and sync everything really nicely if it's just going to be audio and whatnot it can get a little bit difficult but if you have a nice really loud clap and preferably if you can have it on camera it's very simple so once you have this and you have it on both so see you have one here as well as one here so just go ahead and trim this down doesn't have to be super precise at the beginning just get it roughly about right I actually want to do that hang on a second let's just cut the top clip and delete all the beginning of it and then come down to our audio and do the exact same thing and then put them together and if we look here everything looks about synced up we can go ahead and play through it and we should hear the clap just it shouldn't have any echo or anything like that should just be able to hear the clap and it's about that simple guys so uh only other thing is if you can take your video editor and go ahead and lock your audio and video together as well as mute the uh the camera clip because odds are you're not going to want both Audi or you just want to have your good microphone whatever it may be and there you guys go so at this point you're all good to go just be sure to be careful when you're editing if you don't lock if you can't lock them together you don't you know they don't get out of syn and you know half the video is you know the audio is way off or anything like that but as long as you can lock it together and be careful with your editing you should have no problem and here we should have much better audio quality without having to spend a ton of time so anyway guys if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel and if you have any more tips that You' like me to cover as far as making videos definitely be sure to leave them in the comment section below