Hi, guys, Jordan here with motion array, and today I'm going to quickly
show you how to synchronize
audio and video inside of Premiere Pro in just a couple of clicks
and some solutions to some common problems.
The whole reason why you'd want to do this to begin
with, though, is because you have your video
and your audio being recorded separately like I do here.
My video camera is recording my video,
but it doesn't have this microphone attached to it.
It doesn't connect very well.
So I'm recording this audio
separately, directly into my computer and inside of Premiere Pro.
This is what that would look like if your camera video layer here,
you have your camera scratch track here, that doesn't sound nearly as good.
And then you have your nice clean microphone audio here.
And the difference between those is pretty clear.
So let's quickly take a listen to what just the camera audio sounds like.
And then this is what the nice clean microphone audio sounds like.
It's pretty obvious why you'd want to use this layer here.
But in Premiere Pro, when you bring this in,
you're not going to have it nicely set up like this.
You're probably going to have something a little bit more like this.
And these aren't going to be synched up nicely.
They're going to be kind of offset here.
You just kind of slap it down.
It's like I don't quite know where it goes.
Premiere actually has an automatic function
that you can use to just line these up and Premiere
will just do all the work for you.
It's really great as you literally just highlight
everything that you want to synchronize together.
Right click and click synchronize.
Then you just want to make sure that you've highlighted the audio section here.
You don't want clip start or clip.
And like the name suggests,
you found a way to either start or end your clips at exactly the same time.
Which means that you found a way to remotely trigger them
to start or end at the same time. So you probably don't need this tutorial.
So if you have the situation where you're randomly trying to figure out
where do these synchronize choose audio, then we only have one option here.
Don't worry about track channel click, OK.
And then Premiere Pro will do all the work for you
lining these up,
I'm going to bring these way far apart here
so you can see that Premiere Pro is actually doing all that work.
Right click, synchronize audio. OK.
And there you go. It lines it up perfectly.
Now, here's the nice thing, too.
You actually don't need to do this with just two layers here.
You can have as many audio track layers as you want.
Let's say, for example, I have one, two, three, four different audio track layers.
These are duplicates. It doesn't really matter.
It will work even if you have multiple
different audio sources that you're trying to sync together.
Just highlight all of these.
Right click and synchronize is available. There you go.
But here's the thing, though.
You might come into the situation where, say, for example, you highlight these
right click and synchronize is great out and you're not actually able to select it.
There's two main reasons why that could happen.
The first is that you have two audio layers on the same track.
You need them to be on separate tracks.
You can see here that if we have
these on the same track and I highlight these three synchronize is available.
If I highlight these three, synchronize is available.
But as soon as I highlight two things
that are on the same track, layer synchronize becomes unavailable.
This can be easily fixed by simply moving one of those to a new separate track.
Now all of a sudden, synchronize is available.
The other thing is that
this can be caused by something as simple as just a cut in your audio.
So it's just double check here that before that happened,
synchronized is available.
But as soon as I make a cut here and there's multiple audio layers
here, technically on the same track now synchronize becomes unavailable.
So the solution to that is either move these two again, separate tracks
or just remove the cut in between them
so that you have only one audio layer per track.
Then you can synchronize.
The second reason why you might not be able to
synchronize is because you have no track layers targeted.
So targeting is in this section here.
This left section here is for source patching, insert in overwrites.
Don't worry about that for the moment.
It's this right section here that's responsible for track targeting.
If we have no audio or video layers that are targeted,
if we highlight all these right click synchronize is unavailable.
And as soon as we target anything
that's on the same track as something that we want to be synchronizing.
You can highlight these and you can see that synchronize becomes available.
Now, if you target something that's not on a layer
that you're trying to synchronize. So Audio track five,
we don't have anything there that we're trying to synchronize.
You can see that synchronize is still unavailable.
So you want to make sure that you have at least one thing,
even if it's just a video layer, that you're also including
in the synchronization, you need to have at least one layer
targeted that you're actually including in the synchronization process.
So if you find that, synchronize for you is great out.
Check those two things is every single audio layer
on a separate audio track, including small cuts in between them.
And you have at least one track that are targeted that you're
including in the synchronization.
But now you're in the situation where you have two different audio tracks
and if you play them at the same time.
It doesn't sound the greatest you want
just this audio layer here, so one way that you could deal with
that is you could highlight
just this audio layer here by holding alt or option and clicking.
Then you can right click and disable this track
so you only hear the nice clean audio.
The other option that you have is
you can just literally drag this over top and completely replace that layer.
That's actually my preferred method.
But you run into this problem here where then let's say you wanted to move this
audio and video track pair around here and oh, no, they don't move together.
They're completely separated.
The easy solution to fix that is to simply highlight both of them.
Right click and then link them together.
Now, you might come to the situation with the very first time
you try to do that, you highlight them and right click and it says unlink.
This just means that at least
one of those audio or video layers is linked to something else.
Just click on link and then do it again and you'll be able to link them up
so that now they'll work together as a single unit.
Any time you move one around, the other will follow.
If you're running into a situation, though, where this isn't working,
you might simply have the linked selection button here turned off.
If this is white, doesn't matter if you have a linked selection,
they'll act independently.
But if you have a linked pair like this and this linked selection is blue, then
it will respect that and you can move them around as a pair.
Awesome. So that's how you synchronize audio and video and Premiere.
And some solutions to some common problems.
But there is one more thing I want to leave you with,
and that's that if you are doing this on a regular basis,
you'll end up with a lot of different materials here.
And I won't just look like that. You'll have a lot here.
But then you also have that same situation repeated a bunch of times.
So if that's you, how do you synchronize all these different sections
together quickly and easily? Instead of just like highlighting.
Right, clicking sync.
There's a better way. And what you can do is
you can go up to edit and then down to keyboard shortcuts.
So from here, you can search for synchronize.
And you'll notice here that I have a keyboard shortcut
for synchronizing my audio.
I'll get rid of that for a moment, because this is likely what you'll have.
Just click underneath the shortcut here, beside the synchronized label here.
And then you can actually key in what keyboard shortcut
you want this to be assigned to.
So for me, I like "Alt and S" soon as I click that, Alt and Sis now
the keyboard shortcut for synchronizing my audio and video click, OK.
And now any time that we want to
synchronize our audio and our video together, it's literally
as simple as highlighting, hitting our keyboard shortcut and enter.
And so synchronizing audio and video is literally just this quick.
And guys, that's just been a quick tutorial in how you
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That's it for me.
Thanks so much for watching.
I can't wait to see you in the next video. Bye.