Blanking video

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Paul Chapin

Is there a simple way to blank a video portion of a clip while still hearing
the audio? I need to capture the sound at the beginning of the clip without
displayng the video.

Paul Chapin
Curricular Computing Specialist
Amherst College
 
Hi Paul,

Put the clip into the audio/music track instead of the video track. The put
a plain black still picture - or whatever you want - in the video track. The
audio will play over it.

PapaJohn
 
The problem is I want to blank only the first couple of seconds of the
video. The best I've been able to do is to first drag the video to the
audio track. Then put another copy of clip in the video track and mute it's
audio. Next split the clip at the point I want the video to begin.
Determine the length of the first part and replace that video with a blank.
It works but it's ugly and probably beyond a good deal of my users.

Paul
 
Paul,

Yes, MM2 doesn't include audio controls like the rubber band effects of
Premiere. The only comments I have on your method would be to leave the copy
of the clip on the video track unmuted until the end. By having both tracks
unmuted, zooming into the timeline as far as you can go, and using the
graphics of the audio tracks to do your alignment - with the nudge feature
you can achieve exact alignment pretty easy. Mute the clip only when you're
finished.

PapaJohn
 
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