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Replace many sound clips?
I’m editing a short in which we recorded low-quality sound straight into the camera’s XLR ports, and high-quality sound into a TASCAM recorder.
We did not use timecode sync. We did clap-slate. The camera and the TASCAM did not start at the same time, so correlated sound files are not the exact same length.
My timeline currently has about 200 clips, all low-quality. I want to replace them all with the high-quality versions.
I’ve heard that there are plugins that can auto-scan your audio files and find the clap slate, and do media-replacements in bulk like this. Anybody know about this stuff?
Thanks!
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The simplest & fastest way to do this is to sync all of your sound and picture by the clapper before you start to edit. I usually do this either by scene or by camera roll.
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I haven’t heard of a plugin that can understand the mumbled slate that most camera assistants do. That job is usually undertaken before editing by a human – still the smartest thing you will find in an edit suite.
As always, it takes longer when you think about it afterwards.
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If you Sync up all of the original footage, you can assign an auxiliary time code to the new audio which will match the original and at least it will speed up the process. Just search the FCP manual (in Help) for Aux Timecode.
Best Drew
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Andrew–
THANKS, that’s exactly what i was looking for! Ok that’s a first step. I just tried it with one clip, and I used the clap-slate to sync and assigned the aux timecode.
NEXT STEP – the instance on the timeline where this is used has in/out points somewhere in the middle, and actually there are 30 instances of this clip. Is there an easy way to replace all instance of one media with another, without copy-pasting all of the in/out points?
BASCIALLY, i want to say “for these 30 instances of the same clip on the timeline, keep all in out points, but just use hiquality1.wav instead of lowquality1.wav”, and of course use the AUX timecode so they are synce correctly.
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Boy howdy, if you come up with a script that can do that please send me a copy. The only way I know of is to pound it out clip by clip unless you want to bravely replace the audio on the original clips. (destructive)
Sorry,
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