Editing

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David Gardner said:
How do I do "insert edit", keeping original sound track?
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I don't know if this is the 'proper' way, but here's how I did it...

Drag your clip to the audio track on the time line. Also drag it to the
video track on the time line. Mute the audio track that's associated with
the video clip so you can only hear the separate audio track.

Next, preview your clip until you get the the point when you want to insert
another clip (or still). Use the split tool (or Ctrl-L) to cut the clip at
the current frame. Then continue to preview the clip up until the point you
want to cut back in again. Use the split tool again to cut the clip. You
should now have three clips on the time line and all should be in sync with
the sound in the audio track.

Now delete the middle clip. The third clip will immediately jump to the
left to follow on from the first clip, which puts it out of sync with the
audio track, but don't worry about this for now. Select the clip or still
that you want to insert and drag it to the time line in between the
remaining two clips. Mute its sound. Trim the start and end points so that
it forces the right hand end of the third clip to match *precisely* the
right hand end of the audio track.

The result is that you will have a clip, a cutaway, and a return to the
clip, all with the original clip's sound.

Don't know if there's a better way, but I've only been using it for a week
and that's the best I've come up with so far.

HTH

Jake
 
Hi Jake,

Your way is good. Just a note. If you don't mute any of the clips, and zoom
into the timeline as far as you can - you can use the audio patterns to
align the clips in the two tracks. It's easy to see a one frame mismatch.
That way, you can stay focused on the area to be cut out, and not have to
move to the end of the 3rd clip to do your alignment - especially if you've
already edited the end(s) of the clips.


PapaJohn
 
PS - then mute clips as needed when done.

PapaJohn (MVP) said:
Hi Jake,

Your way is good. Just a note. If you don't mute any of the clips, and zoom
into the timeline as far as you can - you can use the audio patterns to
align the clips in the two tracks. It's easy to see a one frame mismatch.
That way, you can stay focused on the area to be cut out, and not have to
move to the end of the 3rd clip to do your alignment - especially if you've
already edited the end(s) of the clips.


PapaJohn
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PapaJohn (MVP) said:
Hi Jake,

Your way is good. Just a note. If you don't mute any of the clips, and zoom
into the timeline as far as you can - you can use the audio patterns to
align the clips in the two tracks. It's easy to see a one frame mismatch.
That way, you can stay focused on the area to be cut out, and not have to
move to the end of the 3rd clip to do your alignment - especially if you've
already edited the end(s) of the clips.


PapaJohn
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Very good tip - thank you :-)

Jake
 
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