This lecture is about taking real dialogue that's been recorded in the field and synchronizing it with the separate system recording. So this is if you're on set, and you've got a camera doing the interview, recording a scratch track for audio, but you've also got a boom microphone or a lavalier that's recording into a separate system. So we'll go ahead and import I just did a quick interview with myself so that we had some clips and audio to work with. So let me go ahead and import that. As you see my structure, my bin structure here is only audio and sequences. So I'm going to add video and within video source and I will drag in He's for clips I just recorded on my camera.

There he goes. Now I also like putting the audio inside source. Now even though that's even though that's like an even though that's under the video folder. I like keeping it with the actual source clips that it came from or that it goes with. So I'll drag audio in there and drag these to a new sequence actually. And I would bring this sequence up here and rename this to sync just fine.

And now we bring the audio onto the timeline. And you'll see there. Luckily, they match up the same number, but they are not synchronized isn't my downline keep saying here it gives you. So first I'm going to show you how to synchronize manually because every editor should know how to do that. And then I'll show you how to quickly do it in Premiere automatically. So let's just worry about this first clip, synchronizing the first clip here and zoom in.

Got see how this is together. This means this is the scratch audio that came with the video recording. And this separate. Usually you'll see a dot WAV that I actually recorded straight into my laptop with my microphone in logic, and it recorded as an Iif file, which is just as good, same thing, but normally you'll see a dot WAV as your session system audio. And the idea here is to match up this waveform with this waveform. And normally onset the audio starts recording before the video.

So that's a good clue. You know the video starts recording later than the audio. And if we look at we full screen for you guys really look at this waveform you can see where the first peak is on here and where the first peak is on here. So if we match that up Hello everybody. I am here. You can still hear a little bit of an echo but it's almost there.

So let's zoom in even more. And start looking you can start using other peaks to guide you a little bit. So we're a little earlier with the video. Hello everybody, my name is Jason Randell. I'm here to give you a fake dialog story. Okay, now let's do it the automatic way.

And to be able to do the automatic way you need to be able to discern which clip belongs with it with which audio or else premiere won't be able to figure it out. But because these are shot these in order and there's only four of them, it's really easy to tell what goes with what, and that's not always the case, which is why it's important to know how to do it yourself. But I know that these two go together so I can highlight both. Right click synchronize and it might be like that, make sure you are selecting audio. Okay. And there you go.

The cameras are also recording a scratch audio Or else when you go to sync it up, it's gonna be tough. My laptop's running a lot here should have shot 4k. So to synchronize these two as well just go right click synchronize. Okay. Interesting. So is that a match cannot be found.

Let's take a look. First let's listen to this first track. I don't know what else really to do. Now let's listen to this. I don't know what else really to do. So it should be a match.

It's a good example premiere couldn't do it for some reason. Let's try it one more time. synchronize audio okay. Not singing So premiere can't find a match, but we will find a match manually. This happens a lot. If you try to use other programs such as pluraleyes, or whatever it may be to automate this for you, you still have to know what you're doing to be able to go in and fix everything.

So let's match up the peaks. I see looking at this, I see a really nice peak by itself over here. So why don't we use that? And that looks pretty close over here. Zoom in. Whoo, okay.

I guess I'm the master because those 10,000 hours were hard. Okay, now those are matched up. Let's see what happens on these. synchronize, okay. That would work. And then the director knows, okay, now I can call action.

Okay. So now that we've synchronized, our clip, I like to leave this sink alone, in case we ever need to go back for camera audio, or whatever the case may be. This is kind of a safety measure. So I'll hit duplicate on the sequence. And then this is just what I do whatever your organization is, that's fine, sink clean. Now I'm going to get rid of the camera audio because I don't want to use that anymore.

There are a few ways to delete this one is unchecking. The synchronize button, which you see I want to click one, the audio here the video gets selected to because they're a pair. If I unselect this link to selection box. Now I can individually select these and hit Delete. Now I want these to go up a layer and it gets very tricky going like this, because it's easy to get it off by a frame. Right now it's zoomed out but if we're zoomed in Going up, that's actually behaving pretty well.

But a lot of the times it is easy to get off. So what I like doing is selecting all and hitting alt, up, up arrow, and that'll move it up a track and there's no chance of you getting it off by a few frames. So now what we're left with, oh, I just made a big mistake, cm still in the sink sequence and open up sink clean. So I'm gonna undo this and open up sink clean. This is unselected delete. All Yeah, that's always a that's always a concern.

You always want to make sure you're working in the right sequence or else you could be doing things you don't want to. So we're left with the video and the and the good audio. And now I want to make these I want to make these a pair. So let's turn on backlinks, turn link selection back on but when it Click it. Or if I go to cut, it'll only cut one the video not the audio or the audio and not the video. So we need to group these together.

We select both, and right click and hit link. Now there are a pair is a keyboard shortcut for this if you select both and hit command l linked. Now you can't go like this and hit command L. That doesn't work. But if you select your one audio in one video and hit command L, it's probably Ctrl L and Windows. Now they're linked and that is how you synchronize audio