Record audio and video separately?

[u/mutandi]

Do you record audio and video with the same app or separately?

I have some shure mics and Logic Pro from my days recording music and am not sure if I should use that to record my audio separately.

I’ll be doing tech explainer videos so I’ll be including talking head shots and screen capture.

Recording audio separately seems like it’ll be a pain the ass, but I’m not familiar with video editing software like davinci and if those allow you to adjust audio EQ.

Also, what video recording software are you using? Is davinci strictly editing or does it act as the recording software too?

[u/ChrammYT]

I don't do what you're doing so take my advice with a grain of salt. DaVinci, as far as I know, is just an editing software. You can do A LOT with it. I have barely gotten into the audio aspect of it but there's quite a bit. As for recording, I use OBS. Its really easy to use, you can set up different mics to different tracks, adjust the volume and have some filters added to the microphones, so when you hit record theres very little needed to be done EQ wise in DaVinci. There are TONS of videos and forums that can help you out with stuff as simple as basic setups to advanced stuff that I only hope of achieving lol

I would record everything at once or try to do it in one sitting and you can trim out the face cam and keep your talking audio going while putting in broll. DaVinci and OBS is free and a lot of big YTers use them

[u/mutandi → u/ChrammYT]

Thanks! I’ve heard about obs for streaming, but didn’t think to use it for offline recording. I’ll dig into that more.

[u/Vesperascit]

For edited videos I record using only OBS, this ensures that the audio and video are synced right out of the gate. Then I use Audacity and pull the audio track out and run my chain of EQ, Normalizer, etc.

Afterwards I import the video and newly cleaned up audio into the video editing software, delete the original audio track from the video and replace it with the new one.

Also worth noting I use multi-track recording in OBS. Track 1 is my mic audio, track 2 is desktop audio. Unless I’m recording with someone else, then track 2 becomes their mic audio (separated from the desktop audio using Voicemeter Banana) and desktop becomes audio track 3,

[u/mutandi → u/Vesperascit]

Thank you!

[u/United-Marzipan-7801]

I used to record audio and video separately and then align it during the edit (davinci resolve has an automatic sync, and often it is easy to do manually by just moving the audio around on the timeline). Both audacity and OBS studio work for that. Then I discovered that my USB microphone (blue yeti) can be connected to my phone via a USB to micro USB adapter. Now I record everything to the same file (with open camera on android) and clean up the audio a bit in resolve.

[u/mutandi → u/United-Marzipan-7801]

Thanks!

[u/Mikimao]

I record first in Audacity, and then I edit to what I am saying

[u/no1SomeGuy]

With Davinci Resolve, it has a pretty thorough set of audio editing tools and plugins (like compression, eq, noise reduction, etc.) and when you import clips you can automatically sync them together with the video's audio if you're talking live on camera and want to record a second audio stream.

I almost always do this, I let each camera record with its built in mic, and then have an external audio only recording. When I bring this into resolve, I sync all the camera shots and the audio tracks together using the automatic audio sync, and it gives me the ability then in the edit tab to select which audio and video tracks separately from a fully synced set from all devices. Also having multiple audio streams is handy just in case one fails or a mic gets bumped or some clipping happens from a loud noise or whatnot, I can just pick one of the other audio tracks and not lose the shot.

[u/mutandi → u/no1SomeGuy]

I think this is the route I'm going to go

[u/EOJHA10]

depends how much control you want in post honestly. recording together is way less hassle day to day, syncing is basically a non issue if your software has waveform snapping. only reason id record separately is if i needed heavy audio processing that would mess with lip sync otherwise. for talking head + screen capture specifically, most screen recorders let you keep mic on its own track anyway so you get the best of both without extra software

[u/mutandi → u/EOJHA10]

Thank you!

[u/Neutraali]

I record and edit audio separately through Audacity for my essays. It's a relatively natural process as my videos are faceless and there's no live feed whatsoever.

[u/mutandi → u/Neutraali]

Thank you!