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Media Composer audio question
Hey All,
I don’t know the exact terminology to describe what I am trying to achieve…so I’ll describe my question and see if anyone has a quick workflow resolution.
I’ve got a 10 minute segment…1 video 2 channels of independent microphone audio on host and guest. There are a bunch of “back and forth” discussions…but I don’t want to leave both mics hot on the timeline for the whole segment because there is a bunch of background noise.
My solution is to roll the clip at 2X speed…and whenever it changes who is speaking, hit the “add-edit” button. Then I go into *overwrite mode* and shift+select every other segment. I then hit *delete* but it doesn’t delete the clip, it just turns a small icon between each audio edit from white to red. I then have to go through and do the exact same thing (selecting the clips) and hit delete again, which then deletes the clip.
Does anyone know what is happening? Something is changing (hence the white to red change) but there doesn’t seem to be any actual change to the clip…it still contains audio…it deletes any keyframes I may have had…but even if I don’t have any, it still doesn’t delete the clip the first time.
Help please!
-Jason Brown
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6 Replies
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you proably have gain ore automation there, use automation gain window to remove all gain/pan/level effects first, then you can delete in a single step.
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Can you walk me through that? I’ve tried removing everything…and there aren’t any keyframes or anything…and it still doesn’t delete in one step.
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lasso or delect the whole sequence of audio segments and hit backspace until all the segs disappear then undo just one. Your seq should be clear now read for shift+red seg selector, then backspace to delete the off mike portions.
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Thank you so much!
For some reason, hitting backspace causes them to delete all in one step…I would assume the *delete* key would do the same.
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The first time you delete, you are removing the audio mix setting you added…even if you boosted the volume to the source clip before you started editing.
Another way to do that is to turn on your waveform view (sample plot) and you can visually see on each track where you need to do your add edits.
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Thanks for reply’ing, I had already figured it out…but I wanted to thank you for replying.
My problem was that I ALWAYS mid L and R channels before I lay them down into my timeline. So now, I just edit first then mid later, it removes the need to delete twice!
Thanks again.
-Jason
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