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  • Theo Van laar

    July 30, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    Norman,

    Normally the audio will keep the pitch if you increase or decrease the pitch. But you can also adjust things to your need.
    Just increase the speed of your audio event. Context (right) click on the audio event and select PROPERTIES.
    In the tab AUDIO EVENT you will see CLASSIC selected for timestretch/pitch shift method.
    For PITCH CHANGE you can select LOCK TO STRETCH if you do not want to keep the pitch. If you do want to keep the pitch, you can choose STRETCH ATTRIBUTES

    Theo

  • Norman Willis

    July 30, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    OK, will that keep the video in synch? Or will audio and video become unsynched, as with a velocity envelope?

    Norman Willis
    http://www.nazareneisrael.org
    servant@nazareneisrael.org

  • Theo Van laar

    July 30, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    When you drag with Ctrl pressed from one side of the audio event to make it smaller (or larger), the video event will follow. If you change the lenth of the audio event in the PROPERTIES tab, the video event will not folow and you will have to adjust by hand.

    Theo

  • Norman Willis

    July 30, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    OK, so if I hold CTRL while I try to trim, basically what I am doing is to squeeze the event? And this will also raise the pitch?

    Is there some special way to squeeze the event, and make it shorter, without raising the pitch?

    Norman Willis
    http://www.nazareneisrael.org
    servant@nazareneisrael.org

  • Theo Van laar

    July 30, 2009 at 8:25 pm

    ‘Is there some special way to squeeze the event, and make it shorter, without raising the pitch?’

    Normally the pitch is NOT raising when you speed up the audio (squeeze the event, unlike an audio cassette tape that is speeded up). Unless you select the LOCK TO STRETCH option in the properties tab.

    Theo

  • Norman Willis

    July 30, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    That’s great!

    Would it also affect playback of a separate audio track (.mp3 musical accompaniment)?

    Norman Willis
    http://www.nazareneisrael.org
    servant@nazareneisrael.org

  • Theo Van laar

    July 30, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    ‘Would it also affect playback of a separate audio track (.mp3 musical accompaniment)?’

    Yes, if you group them first.

    Theo

  • Norman Willis

    August 2, 2009 at 7:29 pm

    Thank you, Theo.

    This worked great!

    Norman Willis
    http://www.nazareneisrael.org
    servant@nazareneisrael.org

  • Rudolf Rein

    February 22, 2012 at 5:03 am

    thanks for posting about the LOCK TO STRETCH thing..
    Ive been looking on google for AGES how to NOT preserve the damn pitch when doing a funny fast forward compilation but all the noobs on the internet ask how to preserve pitch when its already preserved by default.

    so thanks for that

    cheers

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