rendering subclips

everett-dale wrote on 2/20/2019, 1:28 PM

I recorded a video with a separate audio device and have synced them up in the timeline. The video file has its own audio track and I added a second audio track for the external audio recording. I have muted the first audio track and everything looks and sound fine. Now I want to render the video with the new audio as a "subclip" so i can put it into a new timeline and handle them as a single timeline event. I'm not sure how to do this without loosing some quality in the render. I'm sure I'm trying to do this the hard way, what is the easiest way to handle audio that isn't combined with the video? I'm also sure I'm confusing terminology, please excuse me.

-dale

Comments

Marco. wrote on 2/20/2019, 1:43 PM

The subclip feature of Movie Studio doesn't work that way you can combine elements like video or audio. It's only meant for trimming. So you would probably need to re-render your re-synced clip.

Eagle Six wrote on 2/20/2019, 1:43 PM

@everett-dale this is one way.....

Select the video track and second audio track. Right click on the video track and scroll down to 'Group' and then 'Create new'. Leave this instance of Movie Studio loaded. Go to the desktop and start Movie Studio again. This will load a second instance of Movie Studio. Load your second project in this instance or star a new one. Switch back to the once instance, you video track and second audio track should still be selected, if not select all. Then press 'Ctrl+C' to copy the timeline. Now switch to the second instance of Movie Studio, place the timeline cursor (playhead) where you want the video+2nd audio' to appear and press 'Ctrl+V' which will paste the video and 2nd audio into this project. No rendering of the video+2nd audio required.

This simply copies the timeline from instance/project to another instance/project.

everett-dale wrote on 2/20/2019, 2:02 PM

@everett-dale this is one way.....

Select the video track and second audio track. Right click on the video track and scroll down to 'Group' and then 'Create new'. Leave this instance of Movie Studio loaded. Go to the desktop and start Movie Studio again. This will load a second instance of Movie Studio. Load your second project in this instance or star a new one. Switch back to the once instance, you video track and second audio track should still be selected, if not select all. Then press 'Ctrl+C' to copy the timeline. Now switch to the second instance of Movie Studio, place the timeline cursor (playhead) where you want the video+2nd audio' to appear and press 'Ctrl+V' which will paste the video and 2nd audio into this project. No rendering of the video+2nd audio required.

This simply copies the timeline from instance/project to another instance/project.

This seems like it will work. A bit clunky but it will do.

How is the original audio attached to the video file, It doesn't seem to be grouped exactly. Just curious.

-dale

Eagle Six wrote on 2/20/2019, 3:30 PM

It should stay grouped, and transfer when you copy and paste.

FayFen wrote on 2/25/2019, 6:03 AM

Eagle Six, Just a short followup on your method. After the pasting, can the "sync" run of VMS can be closed? will the new vf project file can be loaded later and the "synced" clip still be OK?

Eagle Six wrote on 2/25/2019, 9:52 AM

Eagle Six, Just a short followup on your method. After the pasting, can the "sync" run of VMS can be closed? will the new vf project file can be loaded later and the "synced" clip still be OK?

@FayFen Yes