Graaah. After all that video footage recording over the weekend, I've been having a few frustrations with it… and annoyingly, I suspect it's to do with the software that I have, up until now, used without issue.
I've been using the video editing software Hitfilm Express to produce my videos for a while now. It's a great piece of software with some excellent compositing features; the latter aspect, if you're unfamiliar, is especially good for overlaying titles, special effects and suchlike, allowing you to use Photoshop-esque "layers" to arrange things as you see fit, then integrate them with some existing footage. For my purposes, it's been great for titles, little visual jokes and integrating "facecam" footage.
However, with the latest update to Hitfilm Express, there appear to be some audio-video sync issues that weren't there before. The footage I import from my camera drifts out of sync with the audio I record on my microphone, making it very difficult to do the "facecam" stuff. It's not completely impossible thanks to the magic of editing, but it's not especially practical.
I'm going to try Sony Vegas this evening, which a number of people have recommended, and see if that helps. That's paid rather than free (Hitfilm Express is free, which is another reason I like it!) but if it does the job better I might have to switch! Thankfully there's a free trial I can evaluate it with.
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