Replaceing portions of video with stills?

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I'd like to replace certain portions of a video clip with stills. I taped a funeral, and there was a slide show during it. I'd like to put the original slide scans in the movie rather than the rather poor photos of the screen. This means that I need to replace parts of the video without disturbing the audio track. Seems pretty simple: "lift" out a video clip and replace it with a still. But, I can't figure out how to do it in MM2

Any ideas
RobertJ
 
Robert,

Assuming it's one long clip - put it on the video track as usual. But then
put another copy of it on the music/audio track.

Zoom into the timeline to use the peaks and valleys of the two audio tracks
to maintain the alignment (if you need alignment). Kind of like using the
audio as a tape measure.

Split the video as needed to delete the clips being replaced by the still
pix. Delete or trim the clips as needed. Add the still pix.

Once they are swapped out and your alignment is how you want it, mute the
remaining video clips, so the soundtrack is just that on the audio/music
track.

PapaJohn


RobertJ said:
I'd like to replace certain portions of a video clip with stills. I taped
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a funeral, and there was a slide show during it. I'd like to put the
original slide scans in the movie rather than the rather poor photos of the
screen. This means that I need to replace parts of the video without
disturbing the audio track. Seems pretty simple: "lift" out a video clip
and replace it with a still. But, I can't figure out how to do it in MM2.
 
I tried to reply to this once about 12 hours ago; I hope that I don't end up duplicating my response.

PapaJohn, thanks for your quick response. I can't figure out how to make your suggestion work so that the video and audio after my still is inserted in place of the clip are *exactly* in sync. Basically, I have a speaker who is talking to slides. Mostly, I want to show the speaker. But sometimes, I want to "lift" out the video of the speaker, and drop in a still stretched to exactly the same length. Is there no way to accomplish this in WMM?

thanks,
RobertJ
 
You can do it fairly easily by using the wave patterns in the audio tracks
as your alignment gauge. See the picture on my Editing... Audio... General
page

If you zoom into the timeline, you can easily detect a one frame mismatch in
the audio tracks.


PapaJohn
www.papajohn.org



RobertJ said:
I tried to reply to this once about 12 hours ago; I hope that I don't end up duplicating my response.

PapaJohn, thanks for your quick response. I can't figure out how to make
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your suggestion work so that the video and audio after my still is inserted
in place of the clip are *exactly* in sync. Basically, I have a speaker who
is talking to slides. Mostly, I want to show the speaker. But sometimes, I
want to "lift" out the video of the speaker, and drop in a still stretched
to exactly the same length. Is there no way to accomplish this in WMM?
 
Okay, I'll give it a try. For an 70 minute video where I only want to do slides during a 13 minute portion, should I make it into three separate projects or keep it all together

Robert
 
Robert,

I'd keep it all together during the editing, and only break it into segments
if you have problems saving it

PapaJohn


RobertJ said:
Okay, I'll give it a try. For an 70 minute video where I only want to do
Click to expand...
slides during a 13 minute portion, should I make it into three separate
projects or keep it all together?
 
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