Lets players - Do you record webcam and audio separately?

Ginkgo L3af

Ginkgo L3af

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I'm talking about microphone audio btw. I can't imagine having to record my webcam in one file, and then my microphone in another file, and having to sync them up, that seems like it would take forever and you would still probly not get it right. But I was just making 100% sure that people dont actually do it? One of the reasons I asked is that I ordered the blue snowball mic, and when i get it, I want to know how to make it sound as good as it can. So any tips on that would be appreciated too!
 
We do that when we are recording games where we use facecams.
It's a hassle, but it ensures us top quality on our audio.

We don't use webcams, though, we use a regular home video camera for our facecam.
I don't trust webcams, I always seem to have a problem with webcam recording software :P
 
I have a Logitech c920 and it keeps my voice in sync with the facecam so I record both of them together. If I was doing a larger project that was more tedious I might record seperately, but otherwise I record together. Facecam and my speech in one, gameplay and its sound in the other. At least for now. I probably will experiment later to see which will take more time/give more quality. Maybe if I amass a large sub base I might start to toy with the idea of recording seperately and doing it for every lets play. But since I am just starting I will leave it how it is. Which has been working for me.
 
Wigglenator said:
I have a Logitech c920 and it keeps my voice in sync with the facecam so I record both of them together. If I was doing a larger project that was more tedious I might record seperately, but otherwise I record together. Facecam and my speech in one, gameplay and its sound in the other. At least for now. I probably will experiment later to see which will take more time/give more quality. Maybe if I amass a large sub base I might start to toy with the idea of recording seperately and doing it for every lets play. But since I am just starting I will leave it how it is. Which has been working for me.
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Ahh thank you. Do you use the logitech program to record your webcam, or do you use another program?
 
I don't even use a webcam, I record my audio separately, it's good for making trailers for like finale's and stuff.
I use Premier, I used to use vegas but premier is pretty tight.
 
I do it all the time yes. I record my audio in Audacity, my facecam in OBS. By doing this my audio gets a lot better quality because I remove background noises and I compress it a bit! Oh and it saved my live a couple times, sometimes the webcam footage is lost but luckily I still have my recorded voice then. :) So yeah, syncing can be a pain but it's easy. Just clap and sync the audio with that clap.
 
Fun tip. When you start recording clap a few times. You can sync up the clap in the video to the sound spikes in the start of your audio. Everything that follows will be where it needs to be and you can just cut out that beginning clap in editing.
 
MrMauriceTL said:
Just clap and sync the audio with that clap.
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I always record my audio to a field recorder separate from my camera. Specifically a zoom H1. I also use MrMaurice's clap method. I also record the audio on my camera, but I don't normally use it unless I have something really loud like running an impact wrench. Instead I use the camera audio as a "scratch audio track" and sync to that instead of visually syncing to the clap in the frames. When I'm editing it's easier to match up the two audio waveforms using tho peaks of the claps. For me syncing in post takes me all of 10 seconds to do.

If you're doing a long recording session, it might be a good idea to clap somewhere in the middle or end. Due to weird differences in sampling rates and how software deals with it, you might have some sync drift. This gives you a chance to re-sync your audio. This can be an issue after an hour for recording time.
 
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