Multiclip broken?

[Gary Taylor]

Have you tried converting wav to aff?

[Jamie Mac]

Thanks for your quick response. Yes tried that and did not work. Did a test on vers 5.1 and it works fine. I’m running 6.0.1 and it’s playing up. Thing is i can’t go back to 5.1 cause i have lots of other projects still being cut in vers 6 and projects are not backward compatible.

[Nick Meyers]

what’s actually happening?

i had problems getting double system multiclips to behave back in 5.1 (might have been 5.0.something)

problem was that when the audio was longer than the video, the overhang would push the clips out of sync with each other in the multi.

solution was to Subclip the linked video / audio clips. this would “trim” the audio to same duration as video, and multis would behave.

nick

[Reg Wrench]

Have you tried merging the audio and video clips before grouping?

[Jamie Mac]

thanks for your suggestions. Reg, you’re right about the merging, I put some slug over the audio file and exported it as ref movie, bought it back in and used that for the multiclip and it all works fine. Just seems so strange that i can’t use a separate audio file to be included in the split (i’m cutting a music performance and i much prefer to here the true desk mix and not the camera sound). Is this normal behavior? it’s just i come from a avid background and am not used to importing, adding slug, exporting, reimporting etc… Cheers j

[Reg Wrench]

Yes, it does seem to behave strangely if you have an audio-only clip in the group. Because of Avid’s old bug of not being able to export an audio OMF if the audio was part of a group I always got into the habit of laying the mix into the timeline as a clip and not as part of a group before cutting anyway but if you want it to be part of the group, instead of exporting it with a slug there is a function called ‘Merge’ either in the File or Edit menu, I can’t remember – just find the sync of your main camera or linecut with your desk mix and mark an in point on each and ‘merge clips’ using in points (if they have the same timecode even better). That’ll give you a new clip with the pictures from one and your desk mix as new audio tracks attached to it (still maintaining original audio t/c and reel). That’d should work better in the group…