Can I move the audio smoother?

daniel-s7673 wrote on 7/27/2017, 4:58 AM

So, I'm new to this software and I need some help asap xD . I'm in the process of making a music video and I want to sync the audio from the video to the high quallity audio that I recorded separately. The problem is that, even though I zoom as much as I can, I can't perfectly synchronize the two pieces of audio, because I can't find a way to move the audio smoother. I discovered that if I hit CTRL + U , I'm finally able to move the audio smoothly, but it separates from the video. Can I move both the video and it's audio track smooth at the same time?

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ryclark wrote on 7/27/2017, 6:16 AM

You would be better off leaving the original video and it's synced audio where it is. Concentrate on moving the newly imported high quality audio track to get it in sync with the original instead.

daniel-s7673 wrote on 7/27/2017, 6:59 AM

Yeah, it helped me to get the first part very well synced. The thing is that when I add other videos on the timeline I can't move the high quality audio again to match the new video 'cause it would desync with the first part. So there is no key combination or something like that to move the video with it's audio smoother, right?

rraud wrote on 7/27/2017, 10:02 AM

Not sure what you mean by 'smoother' but if the audio tracks are of the same content, sync to the reference audio. Syncing to picture alone is difficult and time consuming, unless there's TC or a clap slate. On the other hand, if you want to move some of the events together, select and group them together "Edit> Group" or the G and U keyboard shortcuts. You can as well temporarily un-group via the 'Ignor event grouping' toolbar shortcut (or Ctrl+Shift+ U). The events can also be moved in different resolution increments (seconds, frames sub-frames, ect. See the keyboard shortcuts list. Check out the 'Ripple' options as well.

daniel-s7673 wrote on 7/28/2017, 4:52 AM

Sorry if I didn't get my point across well enough. I'll attach a photo that explains my problem better ( I hope :)) )

ryclark wrote on 7/28/2017, 5:52 AM

Make sure that Snapping is turned Off and 'Do not quantize to frames for audio-only edits check box on the Preferences > Editing tab is selected. either of those may cause your audio to jump to video frames rather than moving the audio smoothly. See Snapping and Quantize to frames in the Help files.

daniel-s7673 wrote on 7/28/2017, 7:41 AM

It worked! I had to turn off Snapping. Thanks a lot man! And also thanks Rraud. I really didn't explain that well what my problem was 😛