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edit problem
Okay: I’m not doing a lot of editing, so I can’t remember all the niceties all the time, but I have a project to finish and a problem I’d like to solve.
I need to do a series of split edits (J-cut; leading audio). I’ve not mastered the rolling edit tool. I’ve used splits frequently in 16mm editing where I would mark sync on workprint and mag track, make the pix edit, and pull the track up to match. I’ve tried that in PPro: razor at pix edit point, unlink pix and audio in the leading portion of the clip, delete the leading pix portion, move the leading portion of the audio track ahead a good bit, pull the remainder of the clip (linked pix and audio) up to the edit point, and move the leading portion of the track back into sync. Awkward, I know, but it should work. The problem is that I can’t move the leading portion of the audio track ahead. In fact, that portion won’t respond at all; won’t highlight, won’t move, won’t delete. In a few cases where the preceeding scene is a graphic I can stretch the graphic to cover the leading audio, but that’s not going to work every time — and there are a lot of edits.
Any thoughts?
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