Overlay new video but keep old audio?

[Land of Mystery]

Can Movie Maker do this? That is, say I've got a video interview of my son
talking about football, can I drop in a quick clip of him in a game but keep
the interview audio, then return to the interview?

Thanks!

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

You can do it easily. Drop a 2nd copy of the clip with the audio you want
onto the audio/music track and Movie Maker will treat it as an audio file.

That frees up the video track to cut and edit as you see fit.... just mute
it's audio so only the audio/music track is heard.

PapaJohn

 

[Land of Mystery]

Clever! Thanks - I will try that.

You can do it easily. Drop a 2nd copy of the clip with the audio you want
onto the audio/music track and Movie Maker will treat it as an audio file.

That frees up the video track to cut and edit as you see fit.... just mute
it's audio so only the audio/music track is heard.

PapaJohn

 

[Land of Mystery]

Okay, very close. The problem is how to have the audio still back in sync
when you return from the inserted video to the original shot. Do you have to
precisely measure the length of the inserted video and try to trim out a
piece of the old video and hope you're close enough?

 

[PapaJohn]

I use the wave patterns of the two tracks.... the audio that's with the
video... and the audio on the music/audio track. Zoom into the timeline and
the wave patterns will let you easily align them exactly. Only when the
project is ready to save to a movie do I mute the video clips.