[RESEARCH] - Lip Sync/Base Track Editing Tutorial

Lip Sync/Base Track Editing Tutorial

In today's lesson we learnt base track editing. A base track is where the action is filmed from one shot/angle all the way through the video from start to finish without pausing. Parts of the shot that aren't needed are edited out during post-production stages. We were giving footage to work with and steps of syncing the video to the song and creating a short music video. 
The process included:

• Place the soundtrack (.aif) on the timeline. Find the first clear word and place a marker.
• Watch the footage and where the first word that was marked on the soundtrack is heard, then place another marker and bring down to the timeline and sync with the soundtrack.
• do this for all the footage.
• listen to the beat of the song and place a marker everytime (e.g. 1 2 3 M 1 2 3 M)
• Change to the blade key and hold down shift and cut at each marker point.
• Start deleting clips not needed and a video is created.

note: the clip on the top of the timeline is the footage that will be viewed.