What is going on guys, this is Luke, and in this video we will be creating something along the lines of this:
Syncing video clips is by far one of my most highly requested videos.
Keep in mind that you can synchronize clips for all sorts of edits, but today
I will be focusing on syncing gunshots to music. As per usual, there are a bunch of ways to go about syncing clips.
I'll be showing you the way that I find to be most efficient and precise.
Just so you guys know this technique works in both HitFilm Pro and Express.
For this particular example, I will be syncing the clips in the editor,
but the same concepts will apply for syncing clips within composite shots. As
you can see I've already imported a clip and a song into my media panel.
I have the trimmer panel opened, and I've also trimmed both my files. As a
quick refresher, you can hit "i" to set an in point, "o" to set an out point, and the comma and period
symbols to scrub through frame by frame.
After you've got that sorted out, you can drag in your trimmed footage.
I'm unlinking the clip so that I can get rid of the audio layer.
Now simply plop your song into the editor.
To make the audio waves a bit more visible for identifying potential
syncing points you can click on the arrow beside the timeline zoom tool, and
select the extra large audio size. On
the right side of my HitFilm UI you can also see that I have the audio levels panel.
If you want you can use it as a visual cue to identify loud points or beats in the track.
At this point
I'm going to turn off the visibility of my video layer, and
give a listen to the audio. As you listen think of some potential points that you could use for syncing.
To make things as methodical as possible, and to allow us to easily snap the video layers to the song,
you will now be making markers in the audio layer.
Select your slice tool or by hitting "c",
and then scrub through the editor and make a mark at each beat you plan on syncing the video to. In my case
I am going to be making a mark at each clap sound effect.
Now that that is finished, I will make a mark on the video clip at each point of significance. In this case
I'm working with first person shooter video game footage, so I'll make a mark at each point that there is a gunshot.
Next we will place the point of the gunshot on the video file to align it with the marker
we made on the music track.
Everything should snap into place, and you should now have a gunshot going off at each of your marked beats.
You'll notice that there are points of empty space between each of these sliced clips in the editor.
To close those gaps we will simply use the rate stretch tool.
This will increase or decrease the length of the clip so that there are no gaps, while also maintaining the correct synchronization.
Let's do a quick play through and see the final result.
Remember that
synchronizing is only one part of making an interesting edit. I
encourage you guys to add in different transitions and effects to spice things up after finishing your syncing process.
That's it for now. I hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial if you have any questions, or suggestions feel free to comment below.
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