Syncing/Merging Video and Audio, Getting rid of production audio

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Syncing/Merging Video and Audio, Getting rid of production audio

I'm driving myself crazy over here thinking there must be a simple solution I am overlooking. I have clips with production audio that came from the camera. I also have separate audio wav files that came from the dat tape. I want to sync the video with the wav sound, lose the bad camera audio and create a new clip that references back to the original material. Is this possible? So far, all I have been able to do is create a merged clip with all of the audio files (from camera and dat). Thanks for any help.

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jan 7, 2008 6:18 PM

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Jerry Hofmann

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Jan 7, 2008 6:31 PM in response to jillymd

I think you'd have to recapture the video as video ONLY files, or live with all those tracks in the Viewer... Just don't edit in the camera audio... But it's probably not worth it to recapture, because syncing has to be a lot easier with those camera tracks to sync with.

Jerry

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Jan 7, 2008 6:32 PM in response to Jerry Hofmann

Uugghh. I was afraid that might be the answer....Any other way? Both options seems so time consuming and cumbersome at this point. (25 hours of material captured...an entire feature to cut...)

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Jan 7, 2008 6:39 PM in response to jillymd

Well, you could export the files as video only files... that too would strip out the camera audio. Choose file/export/QuickTime Movie... then select current settings but select Video only... If you have a clapstick to sync to, this would be pretty easy, and faster than capturing. The export is lossless and doesn't recompress the video.

Jerry

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Jan 7, 2008 9:58 PM in response to Jerry Hofmann

Thanks for all of your suggestions, Jerry.

I will probably use your suggestion of leaving the merged clips with both bad and good audio and then not cut the bad audio into my sequence. If someone else has another idea, more suggestions are welcome.

Jill

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Jan 7, 2008 11:15 PM in response to jillymd

I think I finally figured it out. (Yes, I am very determined) A few steps, but worth it if everything
links back to original material and makes editing easier...

So, what I figured out is:

1. Put take with video in the viewer and select an in mark. (I used sticks) Cut video only into the timeline.

2. Put audio wav file in viewer, select the in and cut audio into timeline.

3. Check sync.

4. Select both the audio and video in the timeline.

5. Command L to link the audio and video together (important step I
missed earlier in my travails)

6. Now select and drag the audio and video from the timeline directly into a bin.

This creates the clip I have been tearing my hair out about....with only the audio that I want, no extra tracks.

Thanks to Jerry for his help and suggestions.

Jill

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Jan 8, 2008 4:56 AM in response to jillymd

dang it! I shoulda thought of that. Perfect solution.

Jerry

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