[Geoff Birm]

I’m guessing you can only punch in these durations when you have a numeric keypad? I’m functioning on a “regular” one, and when I punch the numbers that I have along the top, nothing happens.

Just guessing where I want my out point to be and then shifting left and right with my arrow keys to land on the precise spot is kinda driving me nuts.

[Geoff Birm]

How quickly I forget things. Had this problem again, two months later, and forgot what my solution was. Luckily, I posted it for future reference to myself (i.e. right now!). Anyway, I’ve attached a screen shot of what my changes look like, after I’ve modified the clip. See my earlier notes.

[Geoff Birm]

Discovered that, with my merged clips, the source of the problem was the separately recorded (i.e. good) audio that was merged with the video. I can overwrite just fine video-only, or audio-only UNLESS I am trying to use ONLY the good audio.

Video only. No problem. Crummy audio from DSLR? No problem. Video + crummy audio? No problem. Video + crummy audio + good audio? No problem.

But once I try to do good audio only – does not work.

I don’t really get it, but what I eventually figured out is I have to go back to my master clip. I right-click it. Select Modify. Go to Audio Channels. And then I futz around with the Source Channel selections. Basically assigning None to the bad audio (Audio 1 and 2 in the Track Column in my case) and re-assigning channels 1 and 2 to Audio 3 and 4 (where my good audio resides).

Don’t understand it, but it seems to work.

[Geoff Birm]

And another update! I CAN overwrite audio only when:

1) I am using the crummy audio that was recorded on my DSLR by itself;

OR

2) I am using the crummy DSLR audio WITH the separately recorded (i.e. good) audio.

I CANNOT overwrite good audio alone.

[Geoff Birm]

One additional thing I just discovered of note: the clips I am working with are MERGED. In other words, I was using a DSLR with separate audio. So I merged audio to video.

When I try to do overwrite with non-merged clips, no problem with overwriting audio or video-only. And with merged clips, I can do video-only. BUT I cannot do audio-only with merged clips… mysterious!

[Geoff Birm]

Gates: did you figure out what was going on here? I’m having exactly the same problem with audio, and it seems to be something that just started. I deselect the video tracks, with the hope of overlaying audio. Nothing happens. If I try to overlay just the video, however, no problem – video drops in without the audio.

Anybody know what’s going on? Have I inadvertently hit a setting that doesn’t allow me to overlay audio-only, even though I can still do video-only?

[Geoff Birm]

Kevin: I’m working in Premiere Pro CC. But the Toggle Audio During Scrubbing doesn’t work when I map it to my keyboard. The only way I can get it to go on and off is via the Preferences option. Thoughts? Thanks, Geoff

[Geoff Birm]

Don: You rock!! And here I was about to despair, thinking I was going to have to pay through the nose for a repair, or, even worse, buy a new camera! May the video editing gods bless you.

Geoff

[Geoff Birm]

Oye! DV!? Those days are a distant memory. 1080p HD is my flavor of choice these days.

But you know what? I was going through my sequence settings and I noticed that in Field Dominance I had “none” selected. Remembering from your link that None was best for web video, I changed that to Upper Field…and presto! The problem was fixed and everything looks spiffy within in FCP and on my external monitor.

Many thanks for your help. And tell Stephen I like his Moving with Motion DVD. Though I have to work more with it to get my skills up.

/geoff

[Geoff Birm]

Very good. Very good. Getting closer, and I feel like I’m nearly there.

I imported the whole project. Opened the file in the Viewer window, and it looks lovely (after I made the window 100% and unchecked “correct for aspect ratio”, as your link suggests) It also looks great on my external monitor.

HOWEVER, the second I drop the clip into my timeline/canvas window, the edges go all jaggedy again. In both the Canvas window and on my external monitor.

Any thoughts on why it would go from lovely to yucky when I put it into my sequence?

Merci beaucoup.