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boarderjosh10

I need help making a music video filming a band on a set with one camera. We are using the audio from their demo for the sound so when I film them on the set they are always a little out of sync since every cut they play slightly different.

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They should play the way they recorded it, unless they are doing a live performance, but if they want a music video, how do they expect you to do a good job if they don't play it like it is on the Master track? Now you can use the different cuts to edit the video and create different scenes or whatever, but audio synching shouldn't even be a concern for you. I also currently only use one camera, we do multiple takes, but the artist always performs it like the Master track is. I mean all you have to do is ask the guys, "OK look guys, which version do you want people to hear?" If it's just a demo track they are using, they may not have figured out which version they want yet. The master version needs to be decided on by the band prior to the filming of a music video, not during. And then stick with that version.
 
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EvsFX08 said:
They should play the way they recorded it, unless they are doing a live performance, but if they want a music video, how do they expect you to do a good job if they don't play it like it is on the Master track?.
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I think what he means is, you have the master track: now the band is going to actually play the song and the tempo is a little off, not alot, but enough to make the voice and lips not quite sync up. I've had this problem.

The most you can really do is have the band do the actual performance as close to the master as possible. Chances are it will not be perfect, but it will be very close. For the places where it isn't close, use your b-roll to cover the out of sync parts.

Another suggestion would be to get a good recording of the band from the audio board. This way, the sync will be perfect because you are recording the performance. Just make sure that the sound coming out of the board is good. I got caught that way once, bad audio from the board and it couldn't be used. But I had a good shotgun mic mounted to my camera and was using it as well.

See if that works...

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Hmmm, ok, I guess I'd have to experience this to understand. I know with the last video I made, we did about 25 takes, and not one of them was out of synch because we played the Master track through a "pimped out" car stereo. We used the same song and the artist knew exactly how the song went and he kept tempo every take. I guess I'm having a hard time understanding if it's their song, how in the world can they be off tempo?Do they not know which version they want to record? I can understand a live performance variation, but if you know you are going to make a music video, shouldn't you have one version picked out? Or is this a normal thing for music artists to do, and I got lucky with my last video?
 
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The latest doc I finished is of a band with original music.

I videotaped them at a music festival. One song in particular was rushed by the drummer, unintentionally of course. However it was so fast that there was no way I could edit the festival version to the finalized CD version though I tried and came close to ruining the first version of the video I made. The "undo" button is a good thing :)

The sync problems don't always happen, but I have had to edit around whether the lead singer drew out the last few words more on one take than on the first, etc.

Sometimes a band just 'pretends' to play the song and blasts the master...

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I don't know what you mean by saying every time they play differently, if this is a live video, you should use the live music. If it's a music video you should have them play to the song playing. My band has a music video where the editor was actually able to line up live show footage to a recoded song, so it can actually work either way. The way this was done effectively was having a good editor who also shot it with multiple cameras!
 
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....well, I didn't say it happened all the tiiiimmme! :)

And I understand they should play it the same all the time. But I had Murphy's Law effect my productions often enough. I assumed that this had happened to the poster and I know that it had happened to me *shrug*

Plus I was doing live video in a club/festival, not controlled event video where the band could do it over.

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I didn't even read your reply I was replying to the original post ;)

However, I reread that post and now I see he is playing the demo audio.
 
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