Splitting .avi file

Jivedaddy wrote on 5/1/2004, 12:10 AM

Thanks to everyone in this group that responds to newbies like myself, you are very much appreciated...at least by me. :)

I'm new to Screenblast and am finding that sometimes when I split a .avi video it will not produce an automatic dissolve when I bring the two ends back together, and sometimes the dissolve will only be on the video and not on the audio half, weird.

Second question, how can you lock the video and audio? I've seemed to somehow get them out of sync from time to time and have to mess around to get them back together.

Thanks again.

Jivedaddy

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Chienworks wrote on 5/1/2004, 5:41 AM

There shouldn't be a dissolve at all when you bring the ends together. You should only get a dissolve when you overlap them. A bit more detail on what you're doing would help here.

Often when you split, the audio and video events will become "unglued" from each other as well. Select the video part, then Ctrl-click the corresponding audio part so that both are selected. Press G to group (glue) them together. Now they'll be stuck to each other again. You can also group arbitrary events together if you want them to stay with each other. The only gotcha is that if you, say, group a & b together, then group c & d together, and then finally group these two groups together, you only have one single group of four. If you ungroup them (press U), you'll end up with 4 separate pieces rather than going back to two groups of two. Most other software would preserve the two subgroups in this case, but MovieStudio (and Vegas) don't.

Jivedaddy wrote on 5/5/2004, 6:05 AM

Thanks Chienworks!

Sorry I wasn't more specific. But yes, when I overlap to pieces of video sometimes the dissolve will work, sometimes it doesn't. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what.

It seems like Screenblast would know when you drag and drop a piece of video that has audio with it that you want them both locked in sync. I sometimes get peoples words out of sync w/ their lips b/c I've cut a piece of video, but the audio didn't get cut. Any way to permenantly lock a video and audio together for an entire project?

Thanks again!

Steve

Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/5/2004, 7:55 AM

Could it be that you don't always have Automatic Crossfades enabled under Options? If you don't an overlap won't produce and dissolve. It will simply overlap the video.

Also, make sure you don't have Ignore Event Groupings enabled. If you do, then all groups, including audio and video of a single clip, will move independently.