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Delete audio from clip?
I want to digitize mini-DV dailies with sound and still have the option to later replace the audio from the DAT recorded on set. I assume I’d need to somehow delete the original audio from the clip before resyncing. Does anyone know how to do this? I thought I’d create a seperate scratch capture folder for audio, delete it and forget it, except I’m afraid I’ll end up with clips that still have empty audio tracks. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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I would avoid deleting the orignial audio captured with the clip as final Cut and QT will createa relationship between the two files.
Perhaps you could later create an audio only sequence and have final cut recapture the audio from the DATS, then you could cut the audio back under your picture sequence.
David
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Good point, David. I liked your HDV test article on the COW, by the way. Nice one.
And for the record, Command+L will unlink your selected clips audio from the video, alowing you to slip, delete (from timeline) or replace it easily. The easiest way to find your audio again is probably to do a matchframe (F key) on your clip in the timeline.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your response. This sounds good in theory, but the timecode from the mini-DV doesn’t match the timecode from the DAT, so I can’t just batch capture and replace audio.
At this point I’m thinking to just continue logging without capturing until the producer decides about the DAT tapes.
Daniel
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Daniel,
This falls into the “TIMECODE IS MY LIFE” Category. There is no real way to get the results you want without hand syncing the audio, which if it was well logged at the time of capture will still be a task, but not an impossible one. You can capture each separately and then match the DAT to the video vlips gang them and create a relationship from that point on. NO TC on the DATs will not make this easy though.
David
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David,
I’m not concerned with hand-syncing audio; I’ve been doing that on both film and electronic for over two decades. I’m concerned with wasting a lot of hard drive space by capturing new audio without first deleting the old useless files. That’s why I said I was thinking of capturing audio to a separate folder and then forgetting the media. Your first response implied that I could somehow “recapture” the audio from a DAT. Since I’m dealing with a different tape in a different format with different timecode, I wouldn’t call that recapturing, but capturing for the first time; hence my response regarding batch capturing.
To clarify: my question was about media management, not procedure.
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