Frank - I'm back - Try a freshly captured piece of DV. Plop it on your T/L and test your ears and eyes out on that. - Also Print to tape and check out if the final product chatches up with your expectations - I've too looked at some of my stuff in Preview and thought hmmmm .. . something wasn't correct with the Lip synch. But on Final PTT it was rock solid.

Grazie:

Hehe, my question was (it was hidden question, you didnt see it< are we out of sync?) If you do some video editing and you have this feeling that you could put the sound and video in a better sync how would you go about it.

1: As you might guess its my "hate" also
2: Well i dont doubt my feelings, they are correct, it is out of sync
3: Nono, the tutorial is perfect laid out, no problem there. In the tutorial im suppose to replace the bad sound (which i know is in sync) with a studio record, which is very good (if its out of sync i cannot tell).

So, i am suppose to trim away when the guy says "uhm eh" and also when he is coughing, still no problem. But...How to put this, say that you were suppose to do a voice over for yourself. Do you think that you are able to reproduce a 100% perfect voice over, that when you talk its align perfectly to the originale voice? I cannot thats for sure, lol. Even i did a close to perfect trim of the voice over and i try to align it to the originale voice i feel its out of sync by few ms, as in the mouth open and the sound comes a bit later. Oh man this is really hard to explain.

What i mean is....If i do a comparison between the originale and the voice over, it seems the voiceover is slightly longer/shorter. the words wont hit 100% compared to the originale.

Uhm, was this better?

Frankie
Singapore

Grazie: Ok thanks for your comment, i will have a look into what you said.

Its just that i was a bit worried that if i put together something or did a voice over i would like to know if the "lip-sync" is perfect, nothing looks more funny then to see a lip that is talking and then ou hear the voice later on/before the movement.

Frankie
Singapore

Thanks Marquat - You got it in one. I think all of us are now in Sync.

What's the project you'll be doing anway. Training and CUstomer service type videos is what I want to get into. If anybody wants a Project Leader for this type of work, drop me a line - yeah?

Grazie

FWIW, everyone thinks it's a pain, beside the shops that specialize in and make their living doing overdubs and such. ;?p

Sound designers can take just one sound from one word, say the *e* in the, and insert it into another word, or even use it as part of createing another word. But that's one reason they have sound designers, and as Marquat said: "Don't kill yourself..."

So anyway, yes it is possible to do a voiceover in sync, it is difficult, and it depends as much on the person speaking the voiceover as it does your skils putting everything together.

Probably the most useful, quick tool IMO is the ability in Vegas to time stretch/compress the audio track without altering the pitch much if any -> if you get the start right and by the middle it is out of sync, hold down the control key whilst dragging the end of the audio clip to speed things up or slow them down. You can do this for the full length audio clip, or split it into as many pieces as you need, using portions from the original and/or dubbed tracks to fill in any gaps as with ambient noise.