Editing - Lip Syncing

Editing the lip-syncing is probably the hardest part of the process, as it needs to be perfect.

After uploading the footage from our tape, we had to place each clip onto the timeline, with each clip in a new layer. As we capturing each attempt of lip-syncing as a whole take, the process was much easier.

We'd estimate where the lip-syncing started, and try to place it in the correct part of the timeline. We would have to watch the attempt on screen, before deciding whether the lip-syncing was before or after the lyrics of the song, with us moving the clip accordingly.

Even though the process is tedious, each clip only took a few minutes. We would then lock the layer, and check/uncheck the visibility of it according to whether we needed to view it.

This method allowed us to cut sections of the take out and move them to different layers, meaning that we could insert the footage at the right time, but still on a separate layer.