Additionally, the person with the (unknowingly redundant) boom microphone, kept walking across the shot on both cameras, in such a way that it was often impossible to simply block them out just by switching to the other camera track. I'm used to manually editing reel-to-reel audio tapes, so I find laying it out like this to be the most natural way.Īs it turned out, there were technical difficulties during the shooting, whereby the secondary camera (which was borrowed from another department), that was just being left to roll on its own, kept switching itself off every 30 minutes, which I spotted, and kept switching it on again, but it also failed to record any audio, for some reason that I still don't know, and which I didn't spot. Doing it this way means everything remains on the same tracks, so it's easier to see where you are.

I would then keep doing that every time there was an audience contribution. Then I would select the primary camera track for the section I'd just made, make that opacity & audio zero, and then select the secondary camera track for that section, and bring up the opacity & audio to 100%. Then I would 'Split All at Playhead' when I wanted to switch between cameras, then play on until I wanted to switch back again, and split at the playhead again. To do this, I would put the secondary camera track at zero opacity, and the audio level from it at zero. The original intention was to have both the recorded camera tracks, with audio, lined up in Camtasia from the start, and cut between them, similar to what you're doing. The secondary camera had a feed from a boom microphone, which was held near an audience speaker when they were asking a question, as you would expect. The primary camera had a microphone on top, and a feed from two lavalier microphones on the two speakers. This was the first time I had shot this kind of scenario. I had a video that I was doing for work, where I had two speakers addressing an audience, and two cameras - the primary one facing the speakers, and the secondary one facing the audience. I just thought I'd share an experience for interest, which does have some relevance to what you're doing, and I also think shows that Camtasia is a lot more versatile & useful than some users on here give it credit for, present company excepted of course. 'Ummm' looks like a football (rugby ball if you are from that part of the world). Do it long enough and you'll start to recognize words by their waveforms. This will take you a few minutes to master, at which point you will be able to quickly sync anything you need. My advice: Practice visually aligning waveforms. I never bother with the clip speed feature solution that Paul described because it is simpler just to cut the clips, drag them into place and move on. Another track goes through multiple digital conversions across telephone and Zoom networks, being encoded and re-encoded all the way, each to a different timebase.

One of your audio tracks comes directly from mics in the room, so it gets encoded only once. In addition, re-read Paul Midlin's reply above, about how two recordings of the same material can end up different lengths. So at best, the autosync feature you described will not save very much time. Then you will spend a lot of time inserting cuts when the one track is cleaner than another, deleting unused segments, etc. Pauls, from what you described, the sync step is something you will do once per project.

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