Audio Clips Don’t Move In Tandem With Video Clip!

[Walter Biscardi]

[Nate Tam] “When moving a video clip located in track 1 with it’s audio linked and in audio track 1 and 2, the clips dont move together. I’m NOT talking about lateral movement. I want to simply put the video on track 2, and the audio to AUTOMATICALLY move to audio track 3 and 4 (the way FCP does it). It will not for the life of me do it! “

No, Premiere Pro doesn’t work that way. That’s by design and quite honestly now that we’re all used to it at our shop we now prefer it to the way FCP used to work.

Just get used it or make a Feature Request at Adobe’s website.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
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[Josh Meltzer]

I’ve been struggling with this all day and fortunately received this how-to from a friend at MediaStorm production company….

So what you need to do is grab the video clip, move it to where you want it, then with the left mouse button still depressed, press and hold the shift button. Then take you’re mouse and slide it down onto the audio of the clip. As you slide the mouse down you’ll notice that the audio follows your mouse to whatever track your mouse is on.

This sounds complicated but I was told I’ll get used to it…and it works too!

[Gabs kwesi Giudice]

Mate. I made an account on Creative Cow to thank you about this!
I was going mental trying to figure this out, and this solved it!
Thanks

[Mike Durst]

Can you explain a little clearer?

I am in premiere 2014 and have recently switched from final cut and am used to audio/video clips moving vertically together. I use a Wacom tablet so not sure if that effects what I am trying to do here.

[Joshua Preiswerk]

Josh: this is a fantastic tip, can’t believe I’m only learning this one now 🙂

To make it clearer :
1. drag your VIDEO CLIP(s) up one (or more) tracks (ex. V1 to V3)
2. Don’t let go of your left mouse button (don’t let go of anything basically)
3. Press + hold shift , and move your mouse down towards the audio tracks (which will “push” them down, exactly the way you’d want them to go in the first place)

Thanks again,

Josh (yep another one, from Switzerland)

[Duke Sweden]

You know what drives me nuts, though. You already have 1 or more video/audio tracks in your timeline. You grab another video/audio track and drag it to the timeline, placing the video into an empty track, but the audio insists on overlaying and overwriting an existing track. The only workaround I’ve come up with is to drag the new clips to the end of the timeline so it doesn’t overwrite anything, then select the audio track and place it in its own track (that’s another thing. Video AND audio clips should create a new empty track when you drag them onto the timeline, I shouldn’t have to create them first!!!)

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Duke,

Do the steps above not address the issue you’re having? Same rules apply when dragging a clip from the Project or Source panel.

Let me know if that’s not working for you.

Best,

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Duke Sweden]

Not even close. I drag my video clip to the timeline (again, after having to manually create a blank track first). After placing the video, with the audio overwriting the audio on the track it insists on going to, I press Shift and drag down, but the video still slides around. After moving the mouse to the track I want the audio on, I let go of the mouse, the audio appears on the track I had the mouse on, but the video track disappears.

[Peter Garaway]

Hi Duke,

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding you but here’s a link to a video of the few examples I think would cover your workflow. Please review and let me know if I’m missing it. If so, I’d love to see a screen recording of the specific issue you’re experiencing. I do agree that sometimes the video moves around a bit when trying to move the audio into a specific track. Placing a marker or lining up the CTI to the edit helps keep it in place.

https://youtu.be/4RLlcphO09g

Hope this is helpful!

In the screen recording I run through these steps:

Example #1

Adding video and audio to an existing track.

Example #2

Adding video to an existing track and creating a new audio track for the audio portion.

Example #3

Creating a new video and audio track as well as deciding where I want the audio portion to rest. When the video portion of the clip lies above the desired video track, press and hold Shift. Continue holding shift, and drag downward past the bar separating video and audio tracks. When the audio portion of the clip lies above the desired audio track, release the mouse and release Shift. You can do the opposite for controlling where you want the video to rest.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Duke Sweden]

ok, I’ll give it a shot. Just so you know I just make comedy videos for myself, I’m not under any deadlines with clients looking over my shoulder, and your suggestions, to me, are helpful at best, but I have a feeling the guys who do this for a living will benefit.