Syncing audio
One reason that most fledgling filmmakers do not want to record sound separately is that they think that it is difficult to match the sound with the video they have recorded. The need to make the audio sync with the mouth movements of the video’s subject seems daunting.
Thankfully, it is very easy to sync audio with video in Resolve. There are a few ways to do this, which we will look at now. Firstly, you will need to go to the Media page, as you can only sync audio on the Media page. If the Media Page is still hidden from when we hid it in Chapter 1, you can reveal it again by selecting it in Workspace > Show Page > Media.
Auto-syncing audio to video
Even though we will not use the sound recorded by the on-camera microphone, it is useful to help sync our separately recorded sound.
As discussed earlier in the chapter, sound is recorded as waves; the shapes of these waves are called waveforms (i.e., the shape or form of the wave). Resolve can take...