Syncing Sound

As you learned earlier (in Chapter 9), video-enabled DSLRs are capable of recording beautiful HD video but only barely usable audio. If you’ve chosen to employ a sync-sound approach to record sound, you’ll need to merge the audio from your recording device to the footage recorded by your camera. For this process, you can take three different approaches.

Manually Syncing Clips

You may choose to manually synchronize audio in your nonlinear editing application. In this case you’ll ingest your DSLR video footage (usually with reference or camera audio) and your high-quality audio from a digital audio recorder. You then must line up the audio.

Here’s how the process typically works.

1. Load the desired video clip into the Source Monitor for your project.