Editing a sequence onto a sequence to replace audio?

[Walter Biscardi]

Duplicate your edited Sequence so you don’t screw up what you’ve already edited. Generally I’ll have a Cut 1, 2, 3, etc…. and then the final edit with the mixed audio will be called “Master.”

In the Duplicate Sequence, simply add your new audio to additional audio tracks, using your original audio to line up the tracks. Turning on your audio waveforms makes this really easy. When the audio all lines up, remove your original audio tracks.

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[Nick Meyers]

there’s no simple way to automate this, im afraid.
there might be some way to use XML,
but you;ld probably have to write your own software!

a good timesaver would be to alter the TC of either the 8tk audio or the mix you used to match each other.
to modify TC of a clip, open it in the viewer, then Modify Menu > Timecode.

in your sequence make enough new target tracks.
turn your video tracks’ visibility OFF (green buttons left of timeline)
this will make navigating to each new audio clip easier
turn on Timecode overlays (option z)
and start cutting away:

park on head of 1st audio clip.
x will mark in/outs around it
Q key will toggle between canvas/timeline and viewer
Tab key x 2 will move you to the viewers timecode field
type in the TC you see in the canvas,
F10 to make the edit.

cheers,
nick

[Luke Hardiman]

Thanks for your help, altering the TC of the AD-88 audio to match the vision speeds up the process afair bit.

previously I had tried making a sequence with vision and DA-88 audio and eye-matching, which works pretty well in Avid, but when you edit a sequence onto a sequenc in FCP, it doesn’t edit the original clips, it seems to edit a refernec to the sequence, but if you export the audio, its empty.

Any how, I’ve got through it for this job so thanks

[Nick Meyers]

“but when you edit a sequence onto a sequenc in FCP, it doesn’t edit the original clips, it seems to edit a refernec to the sequence”

there’s a trick with that.

F9 and F10 will insert or overwrite a nested sequence, as you discovered (read up on nests in the manual)
but APPLE F9 and APPLE F10 will edit the contents of the sequence across, which is what you want.

cheers,
nick

[Luke Hardiman]

Great thanks, thats bugged me for a long time

Cheers