"floating" pictures over presented pieceand maintaining audio

[Simon Keeling]

Hi,

I have presented a piece to camera and want to insert pictures ver the
presentation, whilst maintaining the audio.

I have tried splitting the clip and then inserting the picture, but this
both breaks the recording and the audio.

an anyone help please?

Thanks,
Simon Keeling (UK)

 

[eeyore]

I'm not sure quite what you want but here goes:
1. Drage the video to the video line
2. Drage the video to the audio line
3. Mute the video line
4. cut the video where you want the pictures
5. If you need to synch the video and the audio you will need to cut
exactly the length of time you show the stills out of the video


Hope this helps


eeyore

 

[eeyore]

Of course that should be

I'm not sure quite what you want but here goes:
1. Drag the video to the video line
2. Drag the video to the audio line
3. Mute the video line
4. cut the video where you want the pictures
5. If you need to synch the video and the audio you will need to cut
exactly the length of time you show the stills out of the video


Hope this helps


eeyore

 

[Simon Keeling]

Thanks Eeyore,

sort of helps. However, it seems that when I try to cut the video, the audio
is cut as well. Is there anyway to cut one without the other?

Thanks again,
Simon

 

[John Inzer]

Hi,

I have presented a piece to camera and want to insert
pictures ver the presentation, whilst maintaining the
audio.

I have tried splitting the clip and then inserting the
picture, but this both breaks the recording and the audio.

an anyone help please?

Thanks,
Simon Keeling (UK)

===========================
If you drag the movie clip to the
Audio/Music track and type Ctrl / P
to open your save options...you can
save the file as a .wma (audio file).

Now you can import your saved .wma
sound file and add it to the project after
the video is edited.

Also you may want to right click / Mute
the original audio.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

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[eeyore]

If You have draged the video to Both the video track AND the Music/Audio
track then you should have no problems.
Sorry my instruction #2 below may not have been clear

I'm not sure quite what you want but here goes:
1. Drag the video to the video line
2. Drag the video to the audio (this should say music/audio) line
3. Mute the video line
4. cut the video where you want the pictures
5. If you need to synch the video and the audio you will need to cut
exactly the length of time you show the stills out of the video

Hope this helps

Eeyore

 

[eeyore]

I'll try this one more time then give up on my communications skills

First of all you should be in timeline mode (The lower section should
look like a light blue film strip). If not click on 'show timeline'

Expand the video if not already done....(on the left is the word video
+. Click on the plus

You should now see A video track : a transition track : an audi track
(this is the audio track related to the video) : a music/audio track : a
title overlay.

You are going to put the video on the video track AND on the music
track. When you cut the video the music/audio track is not affected.

1. Drag the video to the video line (You should see the video and

sound waves in the adio track)

2. Drag the video to the music/audio (this should say music/audio)

line (you should see sound waves on the music/audio track and the audio
track - these sound waves should look exactly the same)

3. Mute the audio line that belongs to the video (right click the

audio -> mute (you should see sound waves on the Music/Audio track but
none on the audio track)
Muting this means no clipping when you cut the video as the sound is
actually coming from the music/audio track

4. cut the video where you want the pictures

5. If you need to synch the video and the audio you will need to cut
exactly the length of time for the the stills out of the video -

otherwise you will push the video out of synch

 

[Guest]

I am about to go crazy. I'm pretty sure that Simon and I are both trying to
do the same thing. Some of these replies are helpful. Unfortunately,
they're all workarounds. They don't get me past the same, maddening issue:
inserting photos or video can only be done by splitting the video. From what
I can tell, I can't COVER video.

Let me describe my situation. I don't know how similar it is to Simon's.

I work at an elementary school. We do an in-house newscast. I want to
interview a teacher on camera. After I shoot the interview, I want to shoot
video of kids working and learning in that teacher's classroom. In the news
business, they'd call this video B-roll. Digital photographs could also be
taken.

When editing together the newscast, I want to show and listen to the teacher
being interviewed. However, I don't want to watch the teacher for the entire
length of the 60-second interview. That would get boring. Instead, I'd like
to lay B-roll video OVER the teacher's interview, so that I see shots from
the classroom but still HEAR the teacher. Then, after a bunch of shots from
the classroom, we go back to video of the teacher and the interview. The
video and audio should still be in sync.

Now, I've totally figured out how to put the audio down on the Audio/Music
track. I've figured out how to split the tracks (though not with great
precision). And I've even figured out that if I stick in 5.17 seconds of
classroom video, I have to cut 5.17 seconds of the interview video. (This is
a very imprecise task as well, especially is my mouse hand is a little
shaky). Then if I want to put in another 3.42 second clip, I shakily cut
another 3.42 seconds of the interview. Then if I stick in ANOTHER 6.42
seconds of B-roll I have to, once again, cut another... JEEZ, WHAT A PAIN!

As you can see, I'm really frustrated and sick of this. I'm having to work
too darn hard just to lay some stupid video on top of my interview. Laying
video on top of video seems like such a small request. I just want to cover
it. Not the audio. Just the video. SURELY there's an easier way. There
HAS to be a way to simply lay video (or still photos) on top of my timeline
without splitting and seperating what's already there.

I hope you can help. I hope there's an easier way.

Very, very very, very frustrated,

Charles

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I'm reading your post to mean you would prefer a higher level more
sophisticated editing app than Movie Maker, which is entry-level with one
video track....

3rd party packages to add Picture-in-picture, and work-arounds to add still
pix overlays are available... but sometimes as work-arounds... so you might
want to move up to something like Adobe's Premier Elements.

The Editing and other sections of my website have some info you may be
interested in if you opt to stay with Movie Maker.