Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations Rhinorhino on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.5 - How to split off audio??
- Thread starter davegmail
- Start date
Not sure what you mean exactly.
If you mean on the timeline, then ALT-select allows you to pick just one of video or video and operate on it independently of the linked other. The same modifier allows you to drag in and out points independently as well.
If you mean to get clips onto the timeline, then there is a cycle switch in the clip window for both, video, audio.
Or have I misunderstood the question?
If you mean on the timeline, then ALT-select allows you to pick just one of video or video and operate on it independently of the linked other. The same modifier allows you to drag in and out points independently as well.
If you mean to get clips onto the timeline, then there is a cycle switch in the clip window for both, video, audio.
Or have I misunderstood the question?
- Thread starter
- #3
akribie - thanks. Terminology was the problem:
LINK / UNLINK I also found these. We figured it out...
"Linking video and audio clips means that they become locked together and act as one. For example, when you move or trim one clip the other will be affected as well. Unlink the files to make them separate."
MORE INFO
LINK / UNLINK I also found these. We figured it out...
"Linking video and audio clips means that they become locked together and act as one. For example, when you move or trim one clip the other will be affected as well. Unlink the files to make them separate."
MORE INFO
Once you have unlinked the two elements of a clip, they become completely independent. I find it better to disable the unwanted part and keep them linked. That way you can always change your mind later. If you need the audio separately as well, simply generate a copy either from the clip window or by duplicating the clip on the timeline.
- Thread starter
- #5
Akribie - thank you.
"duplicating the clip on the timeline" - I think this is what we are doing. It is tricky when starting out. My experienced buddy is helping.
I am actually using two cameras A & B, two video clips, the sound track from "Camera A" and bringing in some clips of video from "Camera B".
Camera A - wide shot of musical group & baseline audio
Camera B - close ups of musical group & "duplicate" audio
Both are manually started & stopped - using record button.
Music - Christmas songs about 2 to 4 minutes usually.
It seems there are at least two problems:
1. synchronizing the imported clip to the baseline audio track and
2. choosing the close up video clips to bring into the merged video (after rendering)-
I want it to be smooth & non-jumpy, with a reasonable amount of seconds for each close up. To minimize the amount of close up clips to be imported, I was thinking about 1 to 3 clips ---> [wide - close - wide] or [wide - close - wide - close - wide] to make things visually interesting.
Any thoughts? Thanks again.
"duplicating the clip on the timeline" - I think this is what we are doing. It is tricky when starting out. My experienced buddy is helping.
I am actually using two cameras A & B, two video clips, the sound track from "Camera A" and bringing in some clips of video from "Camera B".
Camera A - wide shot of musical group & baseline audio
Camera B - close ups of musical group & "duplicate" audio
Both are manually started & stopped - using record button.
Music - Christmas songs about 2 to 4 minutes usually.
It seems there are at least two problems:
1. synchronizing the imported clip to the baseline audio track and
2. choosing the close up video clips to bring into the merged video (after rendering)-
I want it to be smooth & non-jumpy, with a reasonable amount of seconds for each close up. To minimize the amount of close up clips to be imported, I was thinking about 1 to 3 clips ---> [wide - close - wide] or [wide - close - wide - close - wide] to make things visually interesting.
Any thoughts? Thanks again.
Markers are the key to syncing up parallel clips.
Find a distinctive place on both parallel clips (either visual or audio) and place a clip marker in both clips. Then, on the timeline, it is relatively easy to line up the two markers to get the clips in sync. By playing both audios at once, you can tell by the echo if there is a small error and nudge one along a bit to get clean, synced, audio. Then disable the audio from the less-good source to leave one clean track.
I assume by Premiere Pro 2..5 that you mean PPro 1.5 as part of Video Collection 2.5. If I'm right, you have to do the cuts between cameras by hand. In PPro 2 onwards includes a multi-cam editor that makes this very much easier.
Find a distinctive place on both parallel clips (either visual or audio) and place a clip marker in both clips. Then, on the timeline, it is relatively easy to line up the two markers to get the clips in sync. By playing both audios at once, you can tell by the echo if there is a small error and nudge one along a bit to get clean, synced, audio. Then disable the audio from the less-good source to leave one clean track.
I assume by Premiere Pro 2..5 that you mean PPro 1.5 as part of Video Collection 2.5. If I'm right, you have to do the cuts between cameras by hand. In PPro 2 onwards includes a multi-cam editor that makes this very much easier.
- Thread starter
- #7
Thank you.
I am sure I have a multi-cam editor ver of Adobe Premiere, and is a topic in the Help files. I am trying to figure out the exact sequence to take a video clip out from tape #2 and drop it into the video of tape #1. I tried to lift using clip markers (after splitting audio & video from tape #2) then dropping it into a blank area removed area of tape #1.
This seems very tricky. Is there an easy way or step by step way to do this? or an URL link?
Thanks, Dave
I am sure I have a multi-cam editor ver of Adobe Premiere, and is a topic in the Help files. I am trying to figure out the exact sequence to take a video clip out from tape #2 and drop it into the video of tape #1. I tried to lift using clip markers (after splitting audio & video from tape #2) then dropping it into a blank area removed area of tape #1.
This seems very tricky. Is there an easy way or step by step way to do this? or an URL link?
Thanks, Dave
The instructions for multicam editing are a little vague on key details of setting it all up.
This is roughly how it works in CS3 (should be very similar in CS2, but some bells and whistles might be different):
Place base video track in a new sequence.
Place cutaway clips on a different track and line up with the base track (use markers for this - set at an event identifiable in both parallel clips).
Now the bit that isn't well documented...
Create a second (edit) sequence and add the first (source) sequence to its empty timeline.
Now right click the contents of the edit sequence timeline and look for a menu item called Multicam. Enable multicam.
Then open the Multicam monitor, where you should see four camera views (smaller|) and a larger output view.
Select the camera view (by clicking it) that you want to start from.
Play the movie using the controls inside the Multicam window and, while it is running, click on the camera of you choice as you progress through the timeline.
When done (don't be excessively fussy at this stage), close the Multicam window and return to the edit sequence, where you will see that your edit clip (the source sequence nested) is now chopped up according to your edits.
You can now use the rolling edit or other tools to fine tune the swap points.
is a video intro to CS2 multicam.
A CS3 version is at - similar, I'm sure, but some detail will be slightly different.
This is roughly how it works in CS3 (should be very similar in CS2, but some bells and whistles might be different):
Place base video track in a new sequence.
Place cutaway clips on a different track and line up with the base track (use markers for this - set at an event identifiable in both parallel clips).
Now the bit that isn't well documented...
Create a second (edit) sequence and add the first (source) sequence to its empty timeline.
Now right click the contents of the edit sequence timeline and look for a menu item called Multicam. Enable multicam.
Then open the Multicam monitor, where you should see four camera views (smaller|) and a larger output view.
Select the camera view (by clicking it) that you want to start from.
Play the movie using the controls inside the Multicam window and, while it is running, click on the camera of you choice as you progress through the timeline.
When done (don't be excessively fussy at this stage), close the Multicam window and return to the edit sequence, where you will see that your edit clip (the source sequence nested) is now chopped up according to your edits.
You can now use the rolling edit or other tools to fine tune the swap points.
is a video intro to CS2 multicam.
A CS3 version is at - similar, I'm sure, but some detail will be slightly different.
- Thread starter
- #9
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question