Post-Production: Synchronizing Sound with Video footage

When the animation is rendered, the footage will then be brought to a video making software in which the animator would take the video and the sound files, place them onto the timeline on Premiere and synchronize all voices, music, sound effects and foley with the footage. Below is a picture of Mark Hamill when he was acting out as The Joker from Batman: Arkham City and also what the timeline looks like in Adobe Premiere.

 

The picture of Mark Hamill and The Joker is an example of what was seen on screen and off screen when the mouth sync was done. It shows where the animators studied Mark Hamill's face when they were recording his voice acting by videoing Mark Hamill himself. They would revert back to this video and see where they would then place the video footage with the sound file and place any other sounds in too. The timeline example shows what Adobe Premiere looks like when adding in footage, sound and any other effects (like foley and music).