When I imported my footage into Premiere and was ready to start syncing up the audio from the camera and the audio that Ella took from the h4 Zoom, I realised that there was no audio connected to the footage. I went to Ella to see if I’d made a mistake and it turns out, audio doesn’t automatically record on the EX3. The audio on the camera is set to what the last person set it to, so the last people that used it probably would have used a mixer and connected that to the camera, whereas we just wanted to have some basic audio to sync it up with the audio Ella recorded.

It may have taken longer, but it isn’t that hard to sync up the footage with the audio using markers on Premiere. Some of the audio files were easy to sync up because there were clear sounds, like for example the first shot had a door slam, which showed up quite clearly, so it was easy to visually sync it. Although, this shit shot, there is no dominating sounds, so I had to choose the sound of the boot lock being clicked.

When you find the part of the audio you want to link, you click “M” and name the marker, and you name it something like “Boot Open 1” if it is the first take.

You then do the same to the footage, at the exact point where the sound would be made, in this case, unlocking the boot. When you mark it though, you have to name it the exact title as the audio marker name.

Then you highlight the audio clip and the visual clip and right click and select “Merge Clips…”

The clips then merge together and you can put them in a sequence, with the markers automatically syncing up together.
This is the shot that was merged using markers: