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Audio selection for multigroup clips
I am assistant editing on AVID, creating standard, two-camera multigroup clips. They are coming along fine, but my problem is this:
One camera has the lavalier mic, so that’s the sound I want represented in the entire multigroup (except of course when that camera isn’t rolling). However, as cameras turn on and off in the final multigroup, sometimes it will only play the audio of the bad-camera-audio camera, and not the good one even though both cameras are rolling.
It seems it plays the audio of whatever camera is in the top-left of my 4-pane split, but sometimes that’s the A cam and sometimes it’s the B-cam.
How do I make it so I can make sure the A-cam is always in the top-left position, so its audio is always upfront?
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Before creating the multicam group, rename the clips so that the sound that you want lists first in the bin…eg A-cam 1 B-cam-2 and then organize bin by name. Then create the groupclip and the sound will come from the first clip in the bin. If you want sound from another clip, simply matchframe it in the timeline, then cut the sound in and extend to needs.
hope this helps
Mark
Mark Harvey
Senior Editor
Le Réseau des sports -
There is also an ‘audio follow video’ selection in the pulldown menu of the source monitor (click on the clip name). This will let you edit your good audio into the sequence, then you can cut trim and chop to your hearts content. Keep in mind, if you keep this on when you start editing, you’ll edit the bad audio as well.
Jon
“Jamming our heads full of figures and angles
And telling us stuff that we already know”Willie The Wandering Gypsy & Me
Billy Joe Shaver
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