How to record and synchronize audio for your drone video - A tutorial

[@exploringwithjohnny6947]

thank you marcus .i use Pinnacle Studio 25

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

That's great. These concepts should work with most editors. Thank you!

[@WeretheRoberts]

I wish I'd seen this video about 3 years ago, man... lol awesome explanation...

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Ha! I need one of those clapper boards. 🤣

[@WeretheRoberts]

@@IdahoQuadcopter hahaha. Just get a couple 6 inch framing squares. It’ll work. Trust me. lol.

[@txarchdroneguy4731]

Marcus, excellent explanation of syncing audio. Very helpful. Thanks for the session; i learned a lot. Now it’s time to practice.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Michael! I appreciate your support and encouragement!

[@RonaldBrown59]

Good tutorial, this will really help a lot of folks. Thanks for sharing.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Ron!! I hope this video helps our fellow drone flyers.

[@johnk7649]

Well done, Professor Crawford!

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Ha! Thank you John! 😀

[@RDsRCReviews]

Ahh the good old hand clap trick to sync the audio. That's something we all learn early on up sync up our footage when filming. The hardest part though is getting the SDcard footage that has no audio synced with the screen recording. Lol. Funny enough, in over 8 years I've never had anyone ask me this question so it's interesting that you get asked this often

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Ryan! It's a great help getting everything lined up!

[@henrytaaffe7058]

awsome info Marcus.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Henry!

[@bobwhitewo3b]

Very nice instructional video Marcus. Thank you for sharing your methods.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

My pleasure Bob!

[@autumnwillow]

Thank you so much! This was so helpful. Subscribed ✅

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

I’m glad you found it useful. Thank you!

[@baxter6504]

Really good suggestions, Marcus. Thank you! 👍🏿

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you. I get asked about this subject often.

[@HikeFly22]

Nicely explained.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you! 🙂

[@MrEddieNunez]

This is a really good video Marcus. Something I haven’t tried, but will do now that you’ve showed your secret sauce 💪🙌.

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Eddie! It's all part of the fun!

[@pp2trancos]

¿Un vuelo sin orbita? Se están perdiendo las buenas costumbres

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Ha! Yes, no orbit in this one! 🤣

[@rayofsunshine107h]

Cool tip!!!!

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Glad you liked it!

[@GardenValley-Droner]

liked and sub, nice video

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

It is absolutely my pleasure! Thank you!

[@chriswhite58]

Great informative video. 👍 Is the dji mic an independent recorder or is it connected to your action Camara 🎥

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

It can be both Chris. I often use the mic independently. Thank you!

[@REINER-ud2zw]

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[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you very much!

[@aerotro]

Marcus make sure to tell people to not use VBR 'variable bit rate' when recording video as it can cause audio to drift out of synchronisation. I found that out the hard way lol. Only benefit is smaller file sizes!

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Good advice! Thank you!

[@GorillamansGarage]

Thought it was VFR. The Fimi Mini 3 suffers a noticeable "drift" after about a few minutes of flight.

[@aerotro]

@GorillamansGarage I guess theirs always some drift with mismatching encodering formats, but I discovered some video editors have a time shift feature to stretch or compress the timeliness of audio or video. It's a lot of faffing about if you have to do that, but it can help. The hard part is synching the end too as well as the start.

[@sxmindian]

First!

[@baxter6504]

Second! 👍🏿

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Excellent!

[@jasonnguyen5499]

I like you. Very helpful And detailed. And fun I’ll Subscribe you. Thanks

[@IdahoQuadcopter]

Thank you Jason! 👍