Clapperboards, clumsy hand claps, footage with screwed-up timecode and so on… wouldn’t it be nice to sync video directly without a clapboard, dropping timecode right into the timeline?
Deepvisual sends this quick video showing off this clever technique. (Here, it’s Final Cut Pro 7, but FCP X and other video editors will work, too – no problem.)
The key ingredient is an iPad app with magical clocking capabilities (worth checking this developer’s whole range, in fact):
Clockit Timecode App [English/Deutsch]
Applause may be the appropriate clapping at this point.
Anyone tried this or other techniques? Let us know in comments.
You can use pluraleyes and not have to match up manually at all – it analyzes audio and automatically offsets footage. It has worked great for the music videos I’ve been on. http://www.redgiant.com/products/all/pluraleyes/