Sync Multiple Audio and Video Files from a Recording Session

Sometimes your video and audio come from separate devices: camera footage plus a studio mic, a handheld recorder, or a lav mic. This workflow lines them back up in a sequence, which you then drop into your script to edit.

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1. Create a sequence and add your files

To edit multiple tracks, you’ll want to create a sequence. A sequence connects your tracks together so they can be edited as a single unit from the script panel. The script panel edits the sequence as a whole — cuts, deletes, and rearrangements apply across all tracks at once. See the step-by-step instructions in the Create a sequence guide.

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2. Sync your tracks in the Sequence editor

If all your tracks started and stopped at the same time, skip this step — adjusting already-aligned tracks can introduce new sync problems. If a recorder was started late, paused, or stopped early, you’ll need to align the tracks before moving on. The Sequence editor is specifically for adjusting individual tracks and their timing relative to each other — as opposed to the script panel, which edits the sequence as a whole. When you edit from the script panel, Descript builds a single combined transcript from the timing of all tracks. If those tracks aren’t aligned, that transcript will be jumbled. Open the Sequence editor and drag the tracks left or right until they line up. Use the timeline tools for more precision. If the audio and video of a single file is off rather than the tracks relative to each other, see Adjust A/V sync offset for a media file instead.

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3. Add your sequence to the script

Once your tracks are aligned, insert your sequence into the script to start editing from the transcript. From there, edits you make in the script panel — cuts, deletes, rearrangements — apply to all tracks at once.