Newbie Re: Splitting Events & timelining

Curtsong wrote on 2/4/2003, 12:46 AM
I'm editing a music video. When we shot the video we recorded to a multitrack Hard Disk recorder for a better audio mix. Now I'm editing the footage and using the audio from the cameras to sync up the mixed audio. I've found that the time isn't always on. First Do I have my cameras on different speeds? If possible or is it in the capture. Second, when I'm editing the video and I split the video tracks, it automatically splits the audio track from the camera. I don't want this. I've searched through the Preferences to see if there might be a selection to separate the two tracks from each other. Is there such a thing? Any help from you pros? Trying to save some time in my searching.

thanks

BTW - I admire all of your thoughts and experience as i read these posts. Thanks for making VV a great product and fun to learn.

Scott

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ibliss wrote on 2/4/2003, 12:56 AM
There is a button on the toolbar called 'ignore event grouping' - try it out.

Also if you click on a blank section of the timeline area (ie where there are no video or audio tracks), all events under the cursor will be split. If you place the cursor by clicking on a specific event (which will highlight that event) then only that event should be split.

To gaurantee that you don't split and audio track, right click on it and choose 'Switches>Lock'. This prevents ANY change to the event. You can turn off the lock later if you need to.

Hope this isn't too brief to be helpful. If all else fails, experiment!
Paul_Holmes wrote on 2/4/2003, 6:07 AM
Again I learn something I'm too lazy to read in the manual. Thanks, ibliss. Been doing a lot with music lately and I've been laboriously clicking on the video track o avoid splitting the audio track and then pressing S . Now I know the right way!
mikkie wrote on 2/4/2003, 10:53 AM
>>sync up the mixed audio. I've found that the time isn't always on

*suspect* that the differences are due to the clocks a PC uses for video vs audio. Your mixed audio should be dead on as that's the focus of audio/music recording gear. When you put video in your PC, normally the PC's internal clock works for the video, while the soundcard (or DA convertor) uses it's own crystal for timing. Even in ideal situations, the audio timing scheme is slightly incompatible with that for video - used to know where to get the conversion specs, but it really is in the realm of trivia.

The answer is to use the time stretch/compress features in Vegas which are realtime and just about flawless imo. Control click the end of the audio & drag, turning off quantize to frames if you must - imo a difference of 3 video frames isn't necessarily visible unless it's at a critical, fast paced, transition.

mike
Curtsong wrote on 2/4/2003, 11:44 AM
Hey Thank you so much. That was exactly what I needed to do. I can't thank this whole group enough. You are all great.

Scott