Inserting photo in video track and keeping the audio synced

[meshuken]

I've tried several different ways, maybe I'm missing something...

VS9, I have a video of a person talking about a book. In the middle of the talk, I want to cut away and do a pan of a map from the book (while the person is still talking) and then cut back to the person talking.

I took a still photo of the map with my digital camera and put it in the Image library. Then I seperated the audio / video AVI so my audio runs in the Voice Track. I then use the scissors to cut 5 seconds out of the middle of my AVI from the Video Track and inserted the still image of the map (making it EXACTLY 5 seconds long). So far so good, I was able to preview just fine, when the person came back on after the image the sound and video was syncronized perfectly.

Then I put in a transition between the video and the image on both ends and it totally blew away the syncronization. I have tried to get them to match up again but can't seem to do it. Is this my only solution to keep trying this way?

The Overlay Track works well, but I really like the "Zipper" effect between the AVI and the still photo and it doesn't seem as if you can use a transition effect bewteen the Video Track and the Overlay track.

So I guess my question breaks down to:

1) Is there an easy way to insert a still image into the Video Track and still keep audio syncronization after the image has disappeared?

2) Is there a way to have something in the Overlay Track and use a transition effect that works between the moving image in the Video Track and the still image in the Overlay Track?

I searched the archieves here and couldn't find an answer...

Thanks,

Mike

[rguthrie]

meshuken,

If you use the Overlay Track, you can use Fade-in and Fade-out for a Crossfade type of transition. This will probably be the easiest way to keep the synchronization.

Ron G.

[gordon_fan_24]

For the transitions, its kind of hard to explain in words, its better to use pictures, but Ulead does them differently then the other programs I've used, but I'll try to explain.

if you have a 5 second clip, a 5 second cutaway, and a 5 second clip at the end totaling 15 seconds. Using a simple 1 second crossfade (all transitions are the same, I'm using the crossfade just because it's the easiest to understand) most programs blend the 2 clips starting the fade at 05:00.00 (mm.ss.ff) timecode of clip 1. to 00:06.00. and as far as clip 2 goes it starts the blend at -00:01.00 and goes to 00:00.00. So Clip One from 00:05.00 - 00:06.00 is over top of clip 2's -01:00.00 - 0.00.00 so the combined length of the 2-5 second clips is still 10 seconds.



Ulead does this differently, and this is why you are losing sync. It starts the blend on clip 1 at timecode 00:04.00 and ends at 00:05.00 And clip 2 fade starts at 00:00.00 and ends at 0:01.00, so those 2 seconds of video are blended into one, therefore making your video one second shorter. And if you have a transition on both ends of the cutaway, then thats 2 seconds shorter.

So for a 1 second fade, or any transition, just add one second to the beginning of clip 2, and another second to the end of clip 1. once they are blended together, in the form of any transition, you should see the sync return, but DO NOT watch it prior to adding any effects, this will be out of sync, until you add a transition. Same goes for a shorter or longer transition, just add the number of frames to the beginning of the clip 2, and the end of clip 1.

If you have any questions, post them, or PM me. Its a very hard concept to understand unless you visualize it.