Best way to sync video footage with separate music track playing underneath

Is it simply a case of inserting markers on the timeline at the relevant points of the track where you wish clips to change (e.g. on the beat or the start of musical phrases) and then aligning clips to these markers?

I use this method:
- first listen to the music clip, while in the timeline, and tap on m (marker) at each beat; after some practicing you can be quite precise...
- then (while snapping is ON) drag the video clip you want to synchronize to a video track and make sure its left (IN) point is aligned with a selected marker
- then drag the right (OUT) edge of the video clip right or left till it snaps to a new selected marker,
- etc.
Piero

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First look at all your material ..'review' it.
As you say so rightly: "..then when I add the transition, isn't that going to mess with the timing?.." ..yes; but only if you haven't allowed for the length of each transition when you first line up your clips.
So watch your footage, think where you want to cut it, and then immediately think "what kind of transition there, and for how long?" ..Imagine it, in your head, so if you think "that would work best with a quick two-thirds of a second dissolve" jot down that you want to leave an extra two-thirds of a second at the start of the clip which you want to transition into.
In the US of A, at 30 frames per second of NTSC video, two-thirds of a second is 20 frames. (..The frame counter gets up to 0:29 and then changes to 1:00, because the 30th frame changes it over to the next second..)
In Europe the frame rate is 25 per second - so after 0:24 comes 1:00 - so two-thirds of a second is about 0:16.
So when you start to cut your video clips, if you're going to have a two-thirds of a second dissolve between your first two, you'll need to leave an extra 20 (NTSC) or 16 (PAL) frames at the start of your second clip, before the action you want begins onscreen, so that those frames will be "eaten away" in the dissolve between the end of the previous clip and the start of the clip which follows it.
If you definitely want to see the last few frames of "lip-sync" - for some reason - of the first (outgoing) clip, then leave the extra frames on the end of that clip, instead of at the start of the following clip, but it usually works best to ensure that the follow-on clip starts with those extra "sacrificial" frames.
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