[Ravi Makhija]

Bradster any luck yet?

For the time being I’ve been using Windows Audio Converter to change my MP3’s to wma’s and they import fine into Premiere. Hope that helps (at least you don’t have to deal with mp3->waves).

[Ravi Makhija]

Hey, you can always turn Auto Save off in Preferences -> Auto Save.

[Ravi Makhija]

O, Jeff we were writing post at same time. What do you mean by hood-jumping?

[Ravi Makhija]

What ups!

Jeff, when you suggested me worrying too much I realized my video wasn’t rendered. However after rendering it I still noticed a slight delay between this audio hit and where the video clip comes in. Maybe it’s because I’m a drummer.

Mike that was a good point about lip syncing, I’m guessing the pros use an instrumental and vocal track separate, and hence have the freedom to stretch/move the vocal track to fit the lip singing. Unfortunately in my case it’s pretty much a beat and video clips.

Well I had some ideas thought I would share for those trying to do similar things.
1 – If the event where you want audio/video synced doesn’t have much audio before it, you might be able to get away with time stretching the first part of the audio so that the first part ends at the end of a frame, letting you sync that audio/video hit.
2 – Ideally, the tempo of your song would be 60, 90, or 120BPM. This would line up nicely with 30 fps and you would have 1, 1.5, and 2 beats per second respectively (please check the math!). So whenever possible you can use software/dj cd player to change the tempo of the audio slightly to the closest among 60/90/120BPM.

Yeah it’s kind of a long-winded method but hey, if it works it works.

Thanks for the feedback I will surely moo at the cowmunity again in the future~

[Ravi Makhija]

Hey,

Thanks for replying quick.

I know the magnet icon in the top left deals with snapping to clips. I think I realized later what I wanted to do was move video between frames, say have a video clip come in half way between frame 3 and 4.

I’m used to audio where you have the freedom to move audio clips very precisely, and if I understand it correctly now that has to do with audio’s sample rate being much higher than video’s sample rate (or equivalently, fps.)

Is video limited to moving by frames? Are there ways to get around this issue? Maybe by increasing fps? Can you increase fps for a segment of a video file?

I feel like those who make music videos must use some kind of work around, to get those “hits” between video and music on point.