• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Most efficient way of merging clips

  Posted by Patrick Harper on November 19, 2009 at 9:00 pm

  Hi,

  I have a whole bunch of video clips with audio which I want to replace with new audio clips that I also have.

  Am I right in thinking that to strip the original audio from the video clips I need to put each one onto the timeline and then drag the video back to the browser? Then I need to merge this new video only clip with my other audio clip to create a totally new a/v clip?

  This seems a long-winded way of working and I wondered if there’s a more efficient process. Even if it’s just to strip the original audio from the video clips all in one go that would be a massive help.

  Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer,
  Patrick

  Patrick Harper replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Nicole Haddock

  November 22, 2009 at 5:32 pm

  What exactly are you trying to do that requires you to strip the audio from the video?

  Regardless, when you do this, it IS a long winded workflow. Some of my friends who shoot film and have to sync the sound up afterwards, it takes them days just to sync the clips and then drag the “new” sunk clips into new bins.

  So you can either do this in FCP, syncing the old fashioned way, or you can do something in Quicktime Pro (which you should have on your system if you’ve got FCP, but if it’s Snow Leopard, you’ll need to install it from the OS install disc.)
  In Quicktime, you can copy and paste tracks and save them. So you would open up your sound file, select all, copy. Open up the video quicktime that you want to put the new audio in, and I think it’s just paste. If you wanted to add footage in addition, I think it’s “add to selection”. It’s one of those, but I’m not on my edit system at the moment.

  So, no matter which way you dice it, it’s going to be time consuming.
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  Patrick Harper

  November 23, 2009 at 12:26 pm

  Thanks for the advice.

  The project is an interview which was shot on XDCAM and with a separate sound recording. The audio on XDCAM files is unusable, hence the stripping off of it and then adding the separate audio files.

  Looks like there’s no quick fix for this one!

  Thanks again.

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