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How do I split audio from video in Final Cut Pro X?
OK, maybe I should ask, “Is it possible for me to manually sync audio in Final Cut X – especially if the audio and video are already joined?”
I’ve been using Final Cut 7 for the last several years. I work at a film archive, where we scan archival film. Much of this film was shot in the earliest sound era by Fox Movietone cameramen. Single-system sound, with 11 frame separation between the image and the corresponding sound. Obviously, before 22 or 24 frame separation became the norm.
Whenever we scan a film that was shot this way, we have to pull the pic ahead by 11 frames. In Final Cut 7 this is very easy – just grab the picture track and pull it ahead. Or type in “11” and enter, and the track moves itself.
Enter Final Cut X and this is an unnatural act, an impossible dream, Apple knows best, blah, blah, blah. 8^) . I’ve tried a number of different ways and have searched online for a solution with no luck so far. Does anyone here have a suggestion?
Thank you in advance…
Scott Allen
Moving Image Research Collections
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Separate audio and video– detach. Sync and then make compound clip?
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As above – or in the clip browser, select the clip, choose ‘open in timeline’ and move the audio as required?
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Great thanks to you both. I didn’t know how to “detach” at first, but once I tried “open clip in browser”, I was able to grab the sound and move it independently of the video. However, I could only move the audio forward – not move the video forward. So, I inserted a gap clip at the head, shortened it to the eleven seconds that I needed, and was then able to pull the audio back to the right spot.
It works now, though I wish there were a slightly easier way – but this isn’t hard. Thank you both very much!
Scott Allen
Moving Image Research Collections
Univerity of South Carolina -
“open clip in browser”:
You can insert a gap at the beginning of the video clip (Alt-W?) and then move the sound ‘backwards’.. . .
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Wouldn’t it make more sense just to trim off the first 11 frames of the audio, then move it backward? You don’t need the 11 frames that don’t have visual most likely.
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