- Sometimes a project will have audio
and video recorded on two separate devices.
For example, I'm recording this video using my phone
but I'm using my field recorder
and wireless lavalier to grab the audio.
Now, in order to edit these in Camtasia,
I first need to sync them on the timeline.
And this is a whole lot easier to do
if I've created a distinct sync point during recording.
I could do this using a clapboard,
syncing audio, take one.
(snapping)
Or, in a pinch, I can just use my hands.
Syncing audio, take one.
(clapping)
Let's take this into Camtasia.
Okay, here in the media bin,
I've imported my audio file for my field recorder
and my video file from my phone.
And I need to sync them up on the timeline.
I'll start with the video file
and I just drag that to the timeline
and let's rename this track, "Phone,"
just so I don't get confused.
Now I need to find that clapboard snap here
and I can already see it here on the timeline.
See that big waveform spike right there?
(snapping)
Coincides with the clapboard snap.
I'm going to put a marker there
so I don't lose my spot.
Plop that down there.
And I need to repeat that process with the audio track.
Drag it here, and I can already see it's quite a bit longer
than my video track
because I started it before I started recording on my phone.
So I'm going to resize that a tad, just trim it up.
And I want to find
that same clapboard snap on my audio track.
I don't even have to listen,
I can see it right there.
It's really easy to see
but let's listen and make sure that's it.
One (snapping).
Okay, I'm going to add a marker there as well.
Plop it down, close as I can get it.
Now I need to line up these two sync points.
Just going to drag my audio track over here.
Oops, I did not rename this yet.
Let me go ahead and rename this, "Field Recorder,"
and I'm going to zoom in real tight.
I like to use the playhead here as kind of a ruler.
Drag my audio to line up as close as I can get it,
zoom in as tight as I can.
It's off by a fraction of a second
but that's not going to matter.
I'll show you why here.
Next, I want to resize my audio
so it matches the video track
and let's give that a listen.
Clapboard, syncing audio, take one.
(snapping)
You probably hear a slight bit of delay there
and it's because I have two audio tracks.
I really just want the better audio track
from my field recorder.
So what I'm going to do here is select the phone,
span this a bit,
and if I click here on the audio properties,
I'm just going to drag the volume
of my phone audio all the way down so it's basically muted.
I can always bring it back if I need to.
And now let's give that a listen.
I could do this using a clapboard,
syncing audio, take one.
(snapping)
And I just have my nice, clean audio from my field recorder.
My audio and video are synced.
Now, I don't want them to get out of sync.
So I'm going to select both,
right-click, group it,
and I can rename this whatever I want to.
Call it, "Syncing Audio Synced."
And now I have, basically,
a video track that I can edit as needed.
And that's how you sync a separate audio source
for editing in Camtasia.