From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Audio

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Creating a click track

Creating a click track

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Creating a click track

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Rich Harrington: Robbie, we're going to go ahead and build the click track now. Robbie Carman: Mm-hm. Rich Harrington: And we're taking the pre-recorded track from the artist. In this case a track from his CD. Robbie Carman: Mm-hm. Rich Harrington: And he's going to be lip-syncing to this in a variety of conditions. In a club. He's going to be using this in the field. And we want to make sure that the performance doesn't drift. If we just had him play the song several times. Robbie Carman: Mm-hm. Rich Harrington: From one take to the other, there could be some variation in performance. Robbie Carman: Yeah, I mean, people just naturally do this. Right, Rich? You know, you're strumming along and you're you know, 100 beats per minute. And next time you do it, you're at 90 beats per minute, and yeah, it's not going to really work when we're trying to use the studio recording in all of these different shooting situations where we're going to have the artist sort of, you know, kind of…

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