• Adobe Premiere Pro

  restore audio tracks based on video tracks

  Posted by Colin Weir on October 13, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  I’m using Premiere Pro CS3. I have a project that has the video locked how I want it, but the audio was poorly mixed and I need to start over with the original audio.

  So here’s what my timeline looks like

  V1: CLIP1 CLIP2 CLIP3
  A1: BIG LONG AUDIO CLIP

  Here’s what I want to do:

  Delete the existing items on the audio track (easy enough)
  Restore the original sound clips from the video files that are on the video tracks

  So my timeline winds up back like this:

  V1: CLIP1 CLIP2 CLIP3
  A1: CLIP1 CLIP2 CLIP3

  I thought I could do this by opening each clip in the source window (by double clicking it), then just doing an insert edit and choosing audio only. However, since only the video is on the timeline, I can’t insert audio with this method.

  Suggestions for doing this easily?

  Troy Murison replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Troy Murison

  October 15, 2008 at 4:07 pm

  I posted a response to a similar question at this thread:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/886199

  Here’s what it says-

  Here’s what I would do:

  In the timeline, highlight (select) the clip you want audio for and park the playhead at it’s first frame. Set your target track to the video layer that clip resides on, un-target any audio layer that might be targeted, press the ‘/’ (forward slash) key to mark the in-out of the clip, then press the ‘m’ key and the source clip will be loaded into the source window with the playhead parked at the same source frame your playhead is at in the timeline. Mark a in point for the clip in your source window. Target the audio track you want to edit into, deselect your video track (or not if you don’t have any effects or transformations applied) and perform a overwrite edit. Done. The only thing that sucks about this in PPro is that to select in-out for any clip on the timeline, you first have to highlight or select it. Dumb. But this should get your audio back in sync on the timeline relatively quickly.

  Hope that’s what you meant and that this helps a bit.

  -Troy Murison
  Seattle, WA

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