[Mark Porter]

Thank you, Mike. I have not had time to yet to move forward and try this. I will soon and recap the experience.

[Mark Porter]

Followup: The video turned out to be “longer” than the audio, so I was able to sync them very successfully by just deleting video frames here and there. Came out to be about 1 frame/minute deleted to keep things in approximate sync and you would have to look very closely to detect anything missing. Thank you folks again.

[Mark Porter]

Thank you both for the tips. I did not have a chance to play with it last night–will try tonight.

Apart from Danny’s great suggestion about splitting/stretch-squeezing/slow-fast motioning the video, IF I were to delete or duplicate video frames to effect the sync, what’s the easiest way to do that? I assume one way to duplicate a frame is to zoom in, ungroup, split, copy and paste it in an inserted time space right next to the copied frame–or is there an easier way? Is there an easier way to delete a single frame like a point-to-the-frame selection followed by a “delete-and-close time” option?

[Mark Porter]

I’ll look for Elastique in my SVMS9 (rem I don’t have Pro, but wanted to see if it had something).

Yes since last post, I began to think about whether I should manipulate the video rather than the audio. It’s a poor-quality video, with horrendous sound, and the audio mix I am trying to sync is the jewel here. I’m thinking it should be just a matter of duplicating or removing a few video frames here and there to keep them in sync. Any pitfalls to that?

[Mark Porter]

I am having better results after setting Quantize to Frames. Again, thanks. I believe I’ve got the the audio replacement clip and video spot-on in-sync up front, but they get off-sync PDQ. I have read about the ability to compress or extend in time the whole clip (I’ll look into that next), but what I’d like to do is anchor key sync points within the clip and have the software do a linear stretch between the points. I have this sort of functionality in my professional geophysical software. Can Pro 9 do this?

[Mark Porter]

Thank you, Mike. I’ll play with all these tonight.

Is there a list of the hot keys (U, S, V, etc.)? I assume those functions could also be initiated from the drop-down menus too (had I known about Ungrouping). Sounds like the hot keys will be faster once learned.

I knew there must be some way to drag the audio with greater precision. I know the sample rate is far finer than the jumps I was experiencing. I’m not yet thinking in terms of frames, etc. Makes sense now.

Mark

P.S. what’s NLE?