restoring lost audio to video

T*Bob Tubb wrote on 2/16/2005, 7:00 PM
I have a video clip that originally had audio grouped with it. Somewhere in the editing process, I lost my audio. Can't just use undo... any way to get it back, or just brute force?

I'm using Sony Vegas 5.0. Someone said I can solve this problem using something called 'excalubur' ? Can I still get this? Is it compatible with 5?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/16/2005, 7:25 PM
Open the video clip in the Trimmer. (right click the clip with the missing audio, choose "open in TRimmer)

Or, you can use the Find Lost Audio/Resync Audio in Ultimate S, and Excalibur has a similar function.
farss wrote on 2/16/2005, 7:58 PM
Or if you're really perverse like me you can export the EDL and match the audio to the video and import the EDL back, might need to watch loosing FXs though.

Actually having done some playing around with the Vegas EDL I think I can see why it has problems with loosing A/V sync. The audio track for the video is just another track, there isn't an A/V 'pairing' in Vegas, nothing says the two belong together. This approach is fine for a DAW with video added, don't know if that's how it should work in a solid NLE app though. Having never looked at another systems EDL I could of course be way off beam here.
Bob.
taliesin wrote on 2/17/2005, 12:02 AM
Also - at www.calderwood.org there is offered a script collection which contains a freeware script called "RecreateAudioEvents.js".

Marco
T*Bob Tubb wrote on 2/18/2005, 9:22 AM
the javascript works great!