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Add sound to a prores file without re-encoding
Hello out there,
I’m not quite sure where or where not to post this question, so it ended up here:
I’ve been working on a project lately where I have been getting new audio-deliveries every other day. As far as I can see, I would have to re-encode my movie every time I would like to add a new audio track, or if I would like to remove an audio track and replace it with another.
My question would be: Is there any way to add sound to a QT prores (.mov in general) without re-encoding the whole file?
Cheers,
Jonas Bergmann -
3 Replies
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You can do it with QuickTime Pro 7;
1. open the prores and a wav (ideally an IDENTICAL length – you can export the movie as WAV and alter that audio file)
2. Select all of the WAV and copy it.
3. Go to the start of the ProRes movie and choose Edit / Add To Movie.You can add several audio tracks to a mov file – you’ll see them in Properties; you can tick them on and off.
If you want to be sure it’s really attached, you can Save As Self Contained.I hope that’s helpful – I have to normalise sound on MOVS, and I don’t want to have to wait to re-export a video with normalised sound.
Actually, if you’re still able to run Soundtrack Pro, you can open a movie in that, do things to the sound, then just save and it shouldn’t touch the video at all (unless you change the length of the audio).
I hope that’s what you need.
Paddy, CreativeMedia.org.uk
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Adobe Premiere/Media Encoder CC support smart rendering of ProRes. You should be able to place your original video in a timeline with matching settings, replace the audio, then export. Assuming all your settings are the same throughout the process there should be no re-transcoding of the video.
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Unfortunately that does not appear to be an option. Media Encoder (at least in CS6) does not default to the sequence settings for export, and there isn’t even a “match sequence settings” option as there is within Premiere.
The one in Premiere doesn’t appear to work correctly; it uses the preview resolution for the export instead of the real sequence (and source-clip) resolution.
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