How to make Incremental changes in track position.

Darmin De'flern

Newbie Location: Malaysia / UK Joined: May 23, 2012 03:50 Messages: 2 Offline

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May 28, 2012 16:15

Trying to align my video to my music track. Since I am singing the track in the video the lips obviously have to sink with the singing on the music track.

At the moment when I move my video track it seems to "snap to grid" rather than very fine movments could anyone help me in telling me how to make tiny adjustments for proper lip sinking to occur?

I done a search but coudn't find any posts on very fine movement thanks. PD 10 Ultra, Panasonic HDV-100, Serif Draw 5.

HalCon

Senior Contributor Location: Charlottetown, PEI Joined: Mar 01, 2008 10:36 Messages: 719 Offline

May 28, 2012 17:37

The timeline can be expanded to frame level (30 frames per second). This will allow you to move the video frame by frame for syncronizing the voice to the lip movement.

See the attached image to locate how to expand the timeline.

Hope this helps you get what you are seeking.

Hal


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UnlikelySalsero

Newbie Joined: Apr 24, 2012 12:50 Messages: 45 Offline

May 28, 2012 19:55

Quote: The timeline can be expanded to frame level (30 frames per second). This will allow you to move the video frame by frame for syncronizing the voice to the lip movement.
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Hal

I am always syncing external audio with my video too (I'm talking, sometimes over music, so it has to be in sync.)

HalCon has it right, the zoom level changes how fine the "snap to grid" is as you drag the audio via the mouse.

It's easy to zoom with the mouse as shown in previous message. In addition, the "+" & "-" keys (plus and minus) on the keypad allow you to quickly zoom in and out. I find that faster than the mouse.

Once you're zoomed in, you'll find it easy to sync.

If you still have the original audio via the camera, then you can leave BOTH tracks ON while getting them in sync. When I get it perfectly aligned, I can't hear any echo between the two tracks, then I turn off the camera audio (check box on far left of track) and just use the external audio.

Having both tracks playing while aligning makes it simple to verify I have the audio near-perfect down to a frame. Nobody can tell if audio/video is out of sync by a frame or two. But nice to have it so close.

Hope this helps! PD 12 - 12.0.2930.0
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Darmin De'flern

Newbie Location: Malaysia / UK Joined: May 23, 2012 03:50 Messages: 2 Offline

May 28, 2012 20:10

Thanks guys will have a look later. Its just not a matter of lining up as I got other scenes not just me singing to the camera so will require a bit of work to fit things as I move things around lol. However thats very handy to know and knew I was missing something I was looking for a snap to grid option or something

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You can view my first attempt at a music video proper @ www.darmindeflern.com, I am uploading now. Will update it once I done any further editing

. Should be up in about two hours.

BTW the music is all produced and performed by myself to

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