Syncing audio and video for optimum results

Seaghan was webcasting a conference last week, and I edited it down into clips to be broadcast through Vimeo. Unfortunately, I had some trouble with the quality of the audio, or rather the editing software; Sony Vegas finds it difficult to process clips longer than about an hour, with the result that the audio can be corrupted. Luckily, Seaghan had also recorded the audio separately, so I underwent the painstaking task of syncing the audio with the video. This actually wasn't as hard as I was expecting; it just took a lot of attention to detail. Generally it's not too hard to tell if you zoom in on the audio timeline to focus on the soundwave image, and make sure that it's aligned where it should be. (The video file with the audio was not corrupt itself, so the soundwaves remained intact.) In some situations though, it can get very difficult, particularly if you've been staring at the same clip for a long time! I find the best thing to do in this situation is just to take a break and work on something else for a little while. And, luckily for me, the conference had some very interesting speakers so that also helped to make the work go more quickly! I then uploaded the clips to Vimeo so that the conference attendees could access them.