I have clips in the timeline without audio. I would like to add audio to these clips via transfer (sharing) from other clips in the timeline that do have audio.
How can I do this?
I also have clips in the Events folder with both audio and video. I would like to move audio only from these clips to clips in the timeline without audio.
I would be grateful for any suggestions,
Ron
You can select to add only audio, only video or both when you drag a clip to the timeline.
You can select to add only audio, only video or both when you drag a clip to the timeline.
Thank you Luis, I have done that and now have an audio only clip. How do I add this audio to an existinng video clip in the timeline?
Ron
You can drag the audio clip from the Browser to the timeline as Luis said - or you can select the Video clip (that you want to add audio to) in the Browser, Right-click on it and make it into a Compound Clip.
Then all you do is open the CC in the Timeline and add the Audio. This way it will remain in the Event Browser with audio attached, as though the audio were permanently attached.
Andy
If you really want the audio permanently EMBEDDED, open the Compound clip (with added audio) in the Timeline and Export it as a (ProRes 422) QuickTime file.
Then you can impost it into your project.
Andy
Thanks everyone. Got it to work. My (very amateur) 28 mins project, uncompressed 4:2:2 became a 173 GB Quicktime Movie upon export! Still another 45 mins or so to go. Perhaps I should have imported as pro-res but ?
Ron
There's really no need to work with uncompressed unless you're doing specialist work.
The difference between ProRes 422 and Uncompressed is undistinguishable with the naked eye - and the file size of PR 422 is so much smaller.
Andy
Thanks Andy. Can I save drive space and time via sharing, even though edited "uncompressed", as ProRes 422?
I have another 45 odd minutes of editing and would prefer not to have to re-import to the Event folder as PR422, but I don't want a 400GB file ⚠
Ron
ps a bit off topic
Not sure what you're doing . . ?
Did you convert your camera footage to Uncompressed and are working (editing) off that?
Or are you talking about just the finished movie saving space by outputting to PR422 rather than Uncompressed?
Andy
I've been editing uncompressed 422. I've "shared" also uncompressed 422. Hence the giant file.
Rather than having to re-import into "Event" as PR422, and (groan) re-edit, I wonder whether if I leave things as they are EXCEPT "sharing" as PR422(50mbps) I can reduce the movie space?
(My "troubles" start with using a nanoFlash on my old XLH1 which produces1080psf files at 100Mbps. I wanted to preserve as much of the original quality as possible, noting that FCPX only "shares" at a maximum of 50mbps which not bad though)
Ron
Jackpot wrote:
Rather than having to re-import into "Event" as PR422, and (groan) re-edit, I wonder whether if I leave things as they are EXCEPT "sharing" as PR422(50mbps) I can reduce the movie space?
Still don't understand - sorry.
You have your uncompressed files, if you edit your project again, it will not create more uncompressed files, it will use the original ones.
Depending how you originally created the uncompressed footage, you may still be able to create Proxy media from the Original (camera) footage and work from that (and even delete the uncompressed footage) but when you export, you MUST change to "Original or Optimised' in Playback Preferences BEFORE you export (otherwise the export will be at half-resolution).
Make sure you have everything backed-up before you delete any files though - just in case!
Andy
I imported into "Events" from files stored on my hard-drive. These files were extracted from the CF cards used with my camera, and are un-compressed 422 albeit relatively small, 1gb of file reresenting about 80 seconds of movie time.
I have in the past imported to "Events" as "optimised media" which results in PR422 50mbps . Then, when "sharing", I chose PR422 50mbps which resulted in a movie about the same file size as the "original" files ex the camera.
This time I (mistakenly I realise) decided not to opt for "optimised media" but left the "box" un-ticked. Hence massive un-compressed files.
I was hoping that I could sort things, a bit, via opting for a PR422 50mbps movie. I think I'll have a go just using a couple of short clips and see what happens,
Ron
I just "shared" a 3 clip 50 second "project' out of my uncompressed Event material. Sharing uncompressed produced a 4.17GB file !! Sharing as XDCAM HD422(50Mbps) (nearest to my recording codec) produced a 284Mb file !!!
No discernible difference in quality.
Ron
Transferring Audio Between Clips
