Your camera and the video were recorded as two files, and they rarely start at the same instant. Syncing is sliding one against the other until your reaction lands on the moment that caused it. Here is how to tell whether you need to, and the quickest way to do it.
The lengths of the two files tell you which case you are in, and the editor reads them the moment both are added.
A recorder that saved your camera and the screen as two files at the same time gives two files that start at the same instant. Step 2 says there is nothing to line up, and you can go straight on. Press Play once if you want to be sure.
A phone on a tripod and a downloaded episode, or a webcam and a trailer, were started by hand at different moments. Then the video has to be moved until both run together, and the rest of this page is for you.
Your camera sits on the top track and never moves. The video is the track below it: drag it left or right, or type the exact seconds if you already know them.
Everything below sits next to the picture in step 2.
Repeats the five seconds under the playhead, so the sound never stops while you adjust.
Minus moves the video earlier, plus moves it later. Get close with seconds, finish with frames.
Turn one side down, or hear the camera only or the video only. It changes this screen, not the finished mix.
Drag the edges of the video track to drop a logo at the start or credits at the end.
The same list is behind the keyboard button on the step itself.
If your recorder can save the camera and the screen as two files at the same time, they come out already in sync.
One sharp sound at the start is worth ten minutes of searching for the right moment later.
Speakers make the echo method easy, headphones keep your voice clean. Choose before, not after.
The sync is one position for the whole recording. Pausing only the video makes everything after it drift.
Not by listening for you. If both recordings are the same length, they come from one recording session and already start together, and step 2 tells you so. Otherwise you line them up by hand with the echo, a marker or one unmistakable moment.
Close enough that your laugh lands on the joke. Get near with the one-second and tenth-of-a-second steps, then finish with the one-frame buttons while Loop 5s repeats the moment. A frame, a 25th of a second, is the smallest step there is.
Only one part of it. The sync is one position for the whole recording, so everything after the pause drifts by however long the pause was. Next time, if you need a break, stop your recording and the video together, or neither.
On speakers it will, and that makes syncing easy, because you can hear the echo disappear. The bleed stays in your voice track, though. Headphones give a cleaner voice; then use a marker or a moment you cannot mistake.
No. It belongs to those two recordings, and they are only open in that tab. Your looks stay in the browser. The sync starts over at zero when you add the files again.
The automatic cuts in step 5 are measured from it. The editor listens to your camera to find where you talk, and the sync decides which moment of the video that talk belongs to.