When you record your audio on a separate recorder from your video, sometimes you can experience audio drift. This is where you sync up the start of the video…
When you record your audio on a separate recorder from your video, sometimes you can experience audio drift. This is where you sync up the start of the video…
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+M424Filmcast LOL! Thanks and don’t look around awkwardly, most of us have
made that mistake at least once.
Very cool! I didn’t know that feature existed.
Audio drift: How to prevent it or if you have to, fix it with #AdobeAudition
Audio drift after a minute is pretty bad. When I’ve had drift that bad it’s
usually a frame rate issue between the output settings of my editor and the
frame rate of the input video.
My camera’s “60fps” rate is really 59.94fps. If I accidentally set the
output in my editor to a true 60fps, I notice a drift right away. I have
two choices. I can either set the output to match the source frame rate, or
I can process the video through Handbrake first to convert into a usable or
desired frame rate before putting it into the editor.
PLEASE HELP! I’m shooting a group discussion next week, and want to make
sure I get the audio right, since that’s the most important part. Currently
I’m considering going with four Zoom H1’s, four Rode SmartLav+’s, plus four
little adapters. Just for the record, by the way, I’m an amateur stepping
into the semi-professional world, so bear with me.
Since I’ll be the only person there for audio, video, and lighting, I’m
hesitant to use four wireless lavalier body packs (Sennheiser’s EW-112 G3)
with four wireless receivers that subsequently feed into something like a
Zoom H6, because I’m worried about not being able to monitor the audio
properly. I’m thinking that “hardwiring” the lavalier mic straight into the
recorder, rather than going wireless, is a better way to absolutely ensure
nothing will go wrong as far as getting audio from four different sources.
At first I was thinking four different audio tracks in post production
would be a pain, but I’m thinking that the wireless option going into the
H6 would be just as cumbersome. Ideally every wireless receiver would feed
into a microphone splitter, and then into an audio mixer for an audio
technician to monitor and duck the sound as needed.
Also, I heard about something called the three-to-one (3:1) rule for
microphones, and for some reason I’m thinking going wireless would increase
that problem; i don’t know though. In any case, PLEASE HELP. ANY AND ALL
ADVICE/HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
I’ve this process manually , tweaking the speed of a clip. So much work.
This trick will save me a bunch of time if I have to deal with the problem
again.
We’ve gotten the issue with Skype recorders and with the Zoom Q3HD (all
other Zoom recorders I’ve worked with aren’t having the issue though)
Great tip as always. I love your tips.
Thanks man! I have to deliver a conference video and I did record it with
my smartphone. This was driving me crazy, thanks for the fix. Greetings
from Dominican Republic
Hi Curtis. Great tip. I have always had that problem and i have been
cutting one of the tracks in several parts to allign it manually when it
gets out of sync. Cool feature.
In relation to the automatic sync in premiere, here is my tip: instead of
using “Merge Clips” (it fails a lot of times) use “Create multicamera
source sequence”, even if it is just one video clip and one audio clip.
When you select the two clips, select first the one that started sooner (in
my case usually the audio from the recorder), it won’t work the other way.
Create multicam source sequence sync hardly ever fail.
Since in the multicam sequence only the first audio track is audible, you
can copy and paste the synced result in a new sequence or a previous one
(just in case you need both of the audios to be listened).
Nice vid Curtis. I have had this problem in the past when neglecting to
compare audio bitrates. This is a good quick way to fix if I ever forget
again (looks around awkwardly).
Extremely helpful, thanks Curtis.
this is fantastic, this would save me a lot if it happened with me.
We use Audition CS6 – in fact we only use CS6 Audition, Premiere, After
Effects and Photoshop – but the question is, not pertaining to this video,
but a previous one, when using Noise Reduction, it leaves a slight echo.
Perhaps you know of or can do a video on how to remove the echo effect.
Thanks!
Audio Drift: How to Prevent It or Fix It with Audition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLQOyaYkhkA