Align a video only clip to an audio only clip

I recorded a wedding with my good camera and also with another OK camera. The external mic on the good camera failed so the good video has no audio.
The other camera has audio and the video is OK (good enough to use for other angles, etc.)
I've seen articles on how to synchronize two clips automatically, but I think it requires both to have audio...that's how it synchronizes them.
I can break apart the audio and add it below the video only clip, but I can't figure out how to line it up so it doesn't look like a bad lip-sync foreign film.
I'm thinking I could align both clips with a marker on the photographer's flash...maybe that will work.
Can anyone suggest how to do this?
Thanks in advance
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Find a well defined peak in the audio (hand clap, sharp noise, etc.) if you can. Select the detached audio, place the playhead over that peak and type M to set a marker. Find the corresponding point in the video — select that clip, place the playhead over the frame where that sound should start and type M to set another marker. Turn snapping in (or hold down the N key and slide the audio until the markers snap together. If you missed, you can right click on one or the other marker and select Edit Marker, then nudge left by typing Control - , (comma) or nudge it right by Control - . (period) then snap to the new position. If you need to align an audio subframe to a discreet video frame, you can nudge audio by subframes left or right with Option -comma or -period. There are 80 audio subframes per video frame, so holding down the shift key as well will advance the audio by 10 frames at a time.
It just takes a little patience, but it's not all that difficult to do.

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