Can't ungroup video and audio

Ralph-Carpenter wrote on 10/7/2018, 8:15 PM

I have Studio 14 and have tried using Remove From and Clear on a video clip. It does not separate video from audio. I saw another post about this, but none of the solutions worked for me.

Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

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Musicvid wrote on 10/7/2018, 9:12 PM

Select the video and audio events and Ctrl+U

Richard Jones wrote on 10/8/2018, 5:13 AM

And make sure Ripple is off (in the toolbar).

Richard

vkmast wrote on 10/8/2018, 6:21 AM

You may have the basic (somewhat restricted) version of Movie Studio, not the Platinum version. Did the solutions you found refer to Platinum? Try if Method 3 advised here would be a workaround for you. Also mentioned here https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/not-able-to-unlink-video-and-audio--106309/#ca658101

Ralph-Carpenter wrote on 10/8/2018, 7:14 AM

Not using Platinum, just regular Vegas 14.

So far, this has been my only issue with Vegas. Most things I need for editing are just basic stuff that work fine for what I need. This though, was frustrating.

Before Windows 10 killed Movie Maker, I was using that just fine. To me, the free editors out there kinda suck, so I went with Vegas.

None of the keyboard shortcuts and pop-up commands work at all for separating video and audio.
However, the one about right-clicking a clip and dragging it to the timeline gives me a pop-up with audio or video options. Cool!
But, the part of the video I want to change audio on is maybe 5 seconds long in the middle of a clip several minutes long. THAT sucks. Now I have to go through and find it. Too bad I can't do it in the shorter edited clip.
Let me complain a little bit. :0P Why include commands that do not work though? The one that does work is no way obvious.
But I can now play with audio and video separately. Groovy.

Thanks guys! Glad ya'll are here to help. :0)

vkmast wrote on 10/8/2018, 8:29 AM

Please note that those commands Musicvid and Richard mentioned work in the Platinum version. The basic version does not include several "more advanced controls" as you will find out.

Ralph-Carpenter wrote on 10/8/2018, 9:43 AM

Yep. Still "Why include commands that do not work though? The one that does work is no way obvious?"
Good there's a place to get answers though. :0)

vkmast wrote on 10/8/2018, 11:13 AM

I don't have a basic MS version to test, but see if this works there: "Shift+drag edge of event ignores event grouping so you can trim audio and video events independently."

Ralph-Carpenter wrote on 10/8/2018, 11:24 AM

WHOA DUDE! That's the ticket! Thank you so much! If that was in any of the previous posts or web links, I missed it. :0)

vkmast wrote on 10/8/2018, 11:26 AM

As they say, "we learn something new every day".