Audio Synch

[John Rofrano]

[Trent wallace] “Is there any way to have the program resynch all the audio with the original. I have about 50 segments all clipped and trimmed and was hoping the program could go back and look at the original video clip and bring in the appropriate audio to match my video trims.”

No there is no automated way to do this. You need to be careful when you’re editing to keep your video and audio together.

What you could do to fix it manually is to open each video event in the trimmer (right-click the event and select Open in Trimmer) and then right-click in the trimmer and drag the audio back down to the timeline and select Audio Only | Add Audio Across Time. You’ll need to do this for each video event that is missing audio. then you’ll need select both the video and audio event and use the ‘G‘ key to group them so that they don’t get out of sync again.

Also, make sure that you don’t have Ignore Event Grouping (Ctrl+Shift+U) enabled or else this will happen all over again!

~jr

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[Bill Mash]

I’m a little flabbergasted to try and guess what kind of workflow your using that would propagate a problem of this magnitude considering the audio and video is grouped unless you decide to ‘ungroup’ it.

The only scenario I can see is poor workflow on j/l-cuts. When using them don’t ungroup before making the cut. Split the clip, ungroup the leading/trailing and delete the desired audio/video. Using the selection editing tool select all media associated with the cut and group.

In your workflow don’t allow red-highlighted audio, aka flagged as un-synched. If you do your cuts properly this should very rarely occur. In the event you have a situation where you know audio will be flagged as unsynched and this is what you want on the timeline, select the media, right-click and set a tape-name to unsynched or lock the event if you can. This way you have flagged this portion of the project as unsynched, yet acceptable.

[Bill Mash]

I had never before considered opening media on the timeline in the trimmer:-)

Q:I don’t understand how to bring-up ‘Add Audio Across Time’. Seems this would save the step of synchronizing by moving.

Cheers

[John Rofrano]

[Bill Mash] “I’m a little flabbergasted to try and guess what kind of workflow your using that would propagate a problem of this magnitude considering the audio and video is grouped unless you decide to ‘ungroup’ it. “

I would imagine that if you unknowingly pressed Ignore Event Grouping by mistake, you could create quite a mess without a whole lot of effort. 😉

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Bill Mash] “Q:I don’t understand how to bring-up ‘Add Audio Across Time’. Seems this would save the step of synchronizing by moving.”

It is part of the right-click and drag menu. If you left-click and drag from the trimmer you just get the media placed on the timeline. If you right-click and drag, when you drop the media a menu pops up that asks you how you would like to drop it. It looks like this:

~jr

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[Bill Mash]

Most excellent thank you from a long-suffering left-click and drag for everything sufferer:-)