The best thing you can do during any on-set production is to plan for the edit. Once you’ve got your incredibly crisp audio recorded to an external recording device, you’ll want to bring it into the edit to match up with your footage - THIS is where the need to sync your audio to your video becomes apparent.

With external recorders, you can record from multiple microphones and have each recording saved on a seperate track (channel) so you can isolate it in the edit. It’s situations like these where we turn towards external recorders to plug our mics into such as the Zoom H4N (or any of their other incredible products). However, sometimes you might be too far from your subject to capture the audio clearly, or you might be wanting to record multiple people talking at once (during an interview) and you’re unable to connect multiple mics into your camera. You can plug a point and shoot video-mic pro+ (or similar) into your camera and your cleaner audio will also be recorded directly into the camera. We recommend Rode microphones as we’ve used them ourselves and can vouch 1000% that they are nothing but aural orgasm-inducing microphones to capture your audio with.

Most cameras will have a built-in microphone and when you record video the audio automatically records and syncs to that clip - which means you don’t need to do anything but copy that footage from your SD card to your machine and start editing! However, the built-in mics in most cameras are atrocious! For anyone looking to get clean usable audio that will not make your audience storm out of the room punching a drywall, you’ll need to use an external microphone. If you’re new to filmmaking or videography then you might be asking yourself, doesn’t the audio from my recording automatically sync to my video? Why on earth would I need to do this manually? Very good questions, if we do say so ourselves. There are a couple of different ways video editors can sync their audio to their video and we’ll be explaining them both in this article. So, how do you prevent this from happening? The simple answer is by synching up your audio to your video. But if your audio just simply doesn’t match up to your video, then you’ll be eternally doomed (or get really bad feedback from your audience). They’ll have a harder time forgiving bad audio.

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