Posted by rakmanenuff on 10/31/07 09:41

Just a quick question.

I've watched people film music videos, and it's often the artist
miming to a loud "ghetto blaster" at some location.
Now.. I don't doubt that pro cameras have fairly accurate timing, and
I guess professionals use playback devices that are in sync, but
normal portable stereos don't always play back the music in the exact
tempo of the original master.

I don't make pro videos, only fun ones with a cheap pocket-size
digicam, but the tempo discrepancies are really bad.

How do people overcome this problem?

I can think of a few ways of doing it, like timestretching the audio.
Otherwise there might be a lot of tedious action with the razorblade
or scissors. But I'm curious to hear how others do this. Is there a
"beat detector"/ alignment/ snap type plugin or function that syncs up
one piece of audio to another?

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