Syncing video with audio file.

[timothym10239936]

I apologize to anyone if this sounds novice, but I would like to start making narrated lets plays and would like to know if anyone knew of a way to combine a video taken through an elgato capture card and an audio clip recorded via the sound recorder app in Windows 10 into one file in Adobe After Effects. Any help would be appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read my question.

[foughtthelaw · Accepted solution]

depending on the file formats captured you can do this by importing both files into a project in after effects and then dragging them into a new composition. to align then you may have to scoot them around in time. if the video file has audio you can expose the layer audio waveforms and try to align those so they match. if not, you may just have to eyeball it and match a distinct sound to something you see in the footage.

your question sounds like you don't have very much experience. if googling any of the above proves too difficult feel free to ask spesific follow up questions.

[timothym10239936]

Thank you for your help.

[Dave_LaRonde]

It doesn't seem like you have a specific need to be in After Effects to do this.  Your chore will be a LOT easier and faster if you use Premiere Pro... which you probably already have.

If you have a specific need to use AE, you can always use Dynamic Link to open your PP timeline in AE.