syncing audio to video and subclipping
by Nick mcdougall
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Jul 22, 2008 at 1:30:09 am
Hey there, ive recently shot something dual system, and now im wondering how exactly i can sync up the audio to the video and subclip it. im used to doing this with FCP and Avid, but there doesnt seem to be a way to subclip two seperate peices of media together. If anyone that can shed some light on this it would be very appeciated
Re: syncing audio to video and subclipping by Jon Barrie on Jul 22, 2008 at 2:23:55 am
Personally this is a huge flaw in the Adobe workflow and must be addressed in cs4, should have been in cs2 let alone cs3. It does not have this feature. You'll need to export new clips from the timeline. Reimport them...
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Re: syncing audio to video and subclipping by Jonathan Shohet on Jul 22, 2008 at 2:02:08 pm
personally I would suggest instead of re-encoding the files :
Drag all the clips to an new empty sequence timeline and synchronize the video and audio. once the all the pairs are ready, link the video and audio in each of them and rename the clip as if you would have done with a subclip.
from now on, this sequence is dedicate only to these clips, to use as sources. Think of this sequence as a sort of bin.
Now you can open your main edit timeline. rearrange your workspace so you have two timeline windows open simultaniously, and position your "synchronized sources bin" timeline above your "main edit" timeline.
Now if you want to import a clip into your main edit, you can just drag and drop a clip from one timeline window to another.
You can also open the clips in the source window by double clicking on them, just as you would any other regular clip, and use clip markers and in and out points to insert or overlay them into your main edit sequence.
Sorry for the long-winded explanation, it's actually quite a simple process once you get the hang of it, and while not as clean and simple as subclips, it's still worth avoiding needless re-encoding IMO.
