Locking Sound to Clips during editing

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Eric Kirk

Hello,

While editing clips on the storyboard, is there a way to
lock sound clips TO the movie clip? The problem I have
is after matching up a sound, like a gun firing to a clip
and then editing, anything I then put before that movie
clip will shift movie to the right but leaves the sound
file in place, causing me to have to match it up, time
and time and again.
Any way to fix?
Thanks,
Eric Kirk
 
Hello Eric,

How's it going?

To the best of my knowledge, the only way you can lock a sound clip it
to save that piece of video separately with the relevant audio to a separate
file and then import it as a new clip. Very tacky, but that's the way it is.

By the way, I'm looking forward to seeing that video. When its done send it
over.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
 
Eric,

have yu received and anserws as I have just had the smae
problem on a 15 min film I have produced and I can't go
back a add any more video because all the sound effects
are then out of synch!

regards,

David Everett
 
Thanks,

Seems like this would be a standard feature. I edit mine
over and over, then add in bits. It is hard to get a
feel of how the movie is coming along because sound and
music clearly make a movie. Live and learn I suppose.

Eric
 
John,

I have thought of this method but was sure if I would
lose any quality by doing it this way.

I have a decent little clip of it that I can send you if
you like...about 5 mb for the low res version.

Eric
 
John,
I have just begun to play with MovieXOne today and I
realize it does not like to import anything other than
AVI. Is that standard? Do I need to save as AVI from
WMM in order to import?
Thanks,
Eric
 
Hi Eric,

By all means yes.

With respect to the quality issue. If you create a clip and then add the
audio and then save that as DV-AVI you will not cause any processing of the
video to take place (This assumes that you started with DV-AVI).

Then, when you have all of your new clips imported, joining them together
by end-butting them will not cause any processing, provided you are still
exporting to DV-AVI. Actually I believe it does, but as the processing in
this case is a 1 to 1 mapping there is no deteriation. Where two clips
overlap then processing takes place....but it would have done using either
method.
--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work
 
Hi There Eric,

When you click on the IMPORT FOOTAGE and get the dialog box, if you click
the down arrow on the file types option you will see all of the formats
that are available. MovieXone came out before Windows Media Player 7 (I
think) and in the free version it was not upgraded. The paid for version
supports WMV 8. However, it will handle MPEG and all those other standards
listed quite nicely. It is in any case a good idea to have your captured
footage in DV-AVI format, which is the highest standard presently
obtainable at our end of the market.

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work
 
John,

Thanks. I sent you a video. If you don't mind, reply
via email (I can reply via a handheld). I tried saving
as AVI, it worked, however, I am still experiencing bad
sound clicks. The best I got was downloading as DV-AVI
and then saving movie back to cam as same. The WinDV
gave terrible sound problems too.

When I did the first, however, in my movie it only
hiccup'd once...better than previous but would prefer
straight.

I had previously been saving from DV as High Quality
Large when downloading now I save entirely as DVAVI to
download, edit, then save back to cam or on machine as
DVAVI and can still save smaller images in the end that
are suitable in size to email.

Eric
 
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