How to ungroup the audio file of a video

Al-Korzonas wrote on 10/27/2025, 4:58 PM

The audio and video from a cheap digital camcorder are out-of-sync. The video is a fraction of a second behind the audio. How do I ungroup the two? I tried the expected "select both, right click, Track Group>Ungroup Selected Tracks" but Ungroup Selected Tracks is grayed out.

I found a stupid way to do it: duplicate the audio track, then mute the original audio track and then I can slide the duplicated audio track around. Then I can delete the original audio track and group the video and duplicated audio tracks.

There should be a more elegant way to do this.

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andyrpsmith wrote on 10/27/2025, 5:36 PM

If you were to host a clip so we could try it ourselves it would help solve the issue?

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LdM_Edit wrote on 10/27/2025, 5:55 PM

Select the events (not the tracks) and press 'U' on the keyboard to ungroup.

Or press Ctrl+Shift+U to ignore all event grouping (there's also a button in the transport and editing bar below the timeline to do this).

To group again, select the events and press 'G'.