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Originally Posted by Doug Young
To me, the easiest thing, or at least the way to get the best results, is to record audio and video separately and sync in post. It seems to scare people, but it's not hard at all. You can do it manually - just clap at the beginning, or if you have the right software, it can be done automatically. I use Final Cut Pro, and all I do is drag in the audio and video files, and the software syncs them perfectly. Premiere has this too, I believe. With other editors, you can use Pluraleyes. Open the files and it syncs them. By using a camera that's good for video and a recorder that's good for audio, you avoid all the issues that come with camera audio, and the syncing is a non-event.
I recently was involved in a shoot using high end cameras that have dual XLR inputs, so we used them. 2 cameras, 4 mics. (Note, we still had to sync the 2 cameras). 2 of the mic channels failed for unknown reasons and it wasn't clear during the shoot. I wished I'd just taken my Zoom and recorded the audio, since I'm sure that won't fail.
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Humm I am relatively new at video and was not aware that FCPX did this I have always just used the clap or pic tap method and associated visual waveform to manually sync. Good argument for reading the whole manual first
So I am guessing you have the audio from the camera also to enable FCP to automatically sync to the Audio files ? Then I presume mute or delete the audio from the camera once synced ?