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Moving Clips from track to track and dealing with audio
Hi All…
According Pre Pro 1.5 Help, when you move a clip on the timeline to another track, the audio is supposed to move to the corresponding track.
So if I move the video portion to V2, then the corresponding audio is supposed to move to A2 right?
I’m not seeing this behavior.
Video is moving and audio stays on V1, which is making is making it harder to stack clips, based on material exisiting on the Timeline.
I have found that if I Hold the ALT key I can move the video and then use the Magnetism (snapping) function to sync the audio back up, but again, this is two edits every time…
What am I missing?
Thanks….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
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[alex udell] “So if I move the video portion to V2, then the corresponding audio is supposed to move to A2 right?”
hey alex, howya doing mate?
i dont have my pp at the moment, but i would imagine (not sure) that targetting the audio track you want it to go to might help – if it does not, it SHOULD!hope that works.
other (irritating) work-around would be to lock the track you DONT want it to go to, but that’s an extra step.later
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I do not think it necessarily so that V1 & A1, V2 & A2 etc are linked. Reason being that you can create extra tracks and therefore end up with many more V tracks than A tracks or vice versa and of course you may need Mono or Stereo tracks also.
Trick is to set target track if you are trying to keep timeline organised and tidy but if you can cope, it doesnt really matter as long as you can find your clips. (helps if they stay linked of course)
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The behavior you described is true once the tracks are landed on the Timeline. However, if you are placing the source on the track, audio and video will be in the corresponding track#. (i.e. V1/A1 V3/A3) Like previous poster says, it is not necessary to be on the same track# but it will be nice for visual organization purposes.
Perry
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Hi Guys…
In my situation, it’s not just the visual organization of the clips on the tracks that is problem.
If I have Material editied to V1 and A1, and I subsequently decide to take clip (with both video and audio) from elsewhere on the timeline and say Superimpose (via PIP, Key, or whatever) over the preceeding portion of the timeline. When I move the clip to put it on to V2, it’s corresponding audio does move in time, but lands on A1 covering (replacing) the audio that was there.
If it were to move to A2 then I could mix both A1 and A2 together. (say VO and Nat sound trax for example)
This is the crux of the problem.
I suppose I could ust move the audio to track A2 (or whatever) first then drag the video to where I wanted to on V2.
I think I got used to a FCP behavior that is not emulated here. BUT the HELP file mentions this functionality….Unless I just didn’t read it right.
hope this helps….
Thanks for the insights….
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX
See My Current Reel
visit the combustion exchange ftp
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