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Can it be done?
I'm working on a promo video for a singer friend, which will be a
collage of clips from various performances. The video (and
poor-quality audio) were captured from DV tape shot at the events. I
also have good-quality audio clips dubbed straight from the mixer
board.
BAsically I'm adding the good audio clips to the timeline, shifting
until they synchronize with the poor audio on the video clips, and then
muting the bad audio.
The problem is that I have 4 or 5 video and a corresponding 4 or 5
audio clips to combine into one 3-minute feature. If I decide to
fine-tune anything on the video line (such as slightly stretching a
fade), I lose audio synch for that clip as well as all following clips.
I can re-synch, but it's annoying.
I've tried saving each individual clip with it's synched audio, and
then combining the 4 or 5 clips, but that turns out to be far too
restrictive of any tweaking I might want to do. Basically I want each
sub-clip to start with a title and fade to video, with the synched
audio fading in before the video transition (somewhere in the middle of
the title). And I want to be able to make length and transition
adjustments to the title without de-synching the sound from the main
video.
BTW, thanks to all who emailed me and recommended reading the "Zero to
Hero" book, I bought it and it's helpful. But it's just reinforcing
what I'm beginning to suspect, ie MM2 is a great tool for a beginner to
get his feet wet, but perhaps it falls short in flexibility once you
want to get a little more creative.
thanks,
Martin
I'm working on a promo video for a singer friend, which will be a
collage of clips from various performances. The video (and
poor-quality audio) were captured from DV tape shot at the events. I
also have good-quality audio clips dubbed straight from the mixer
board.
BAsically I'm adding the good audio clips to the timeline, shifting
until they synchronize with the poor audio on the video clips, and then
muting the bad audio.
The problem is that I have 4 or 5 video and a corresponding 4 or 5
audio clips to combine into one 3-minute feature. If I decide to
fine-tune anything on the video line (such as slightly stretching a
fade), I lose audio synch for that clip as well as all following clips.
I can re-synch, but it's annoying.
I've tried saving each individual clip with it's synched audio, and
then combining the 4 or 5 clips, but that turns out to be far too
restrictive of any tweaking I might want to do. Basically I want each
sub-clip to start with a title and fade to video, with the synched
audio fading in before the video transition (somewhere in the middle of
the title). And I want to be able to make length and transition
adjustments to the title without de-synching the sound from the main
video.
BTW, thanks to all who emailed me and recommended reading the "Zero to
Hero" book, I bought it and it's helpful. But it's just reinforcing
what I'm beginning to suspect, ie MM2 is a great tool for a beginner to
get his feet wet, but perhaps it falls short in flexibility once you
want to get a little more creative.
thanks,
Martin