Removing audio from a *lot* of clips

[draxenato]

Hi,

I'm trying to put together a fanvid, pasting together clips from a couple of TV episodes and having an MP3 song as the only soundtrack.
I'm using Ulead Videostudio 10 and my original source files are two DivX videos each lasting 42 minutes and each having an MP3 audio track. I scanned them for scenes and after sifting thru (by hand) the resulting 3,000+ clips I've got the 150 I actually wanna use.

Is there any way I can select some (or all) of these clips either in the timeline or library and either split / delete the audio or mute them all in one hit ?
At the moment I'm doing each clip individually and at the rate I'm going I'll be in a new demographic group when I've finished...

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

As I see it, you have a couple of options;

1. Continue to mute or split (splitting and deleting does the same as muting) the audio, clip by clip.
2. If you don't have the original clip prior to splitting them up, then recapture, then mute the audio before you cut them up.
3. If you have DVDMF 4, 5+ or 6+, then you could insert all your clips into the timeline, select Join. Then mute your audio. Once that is done, depending on the version of DMF you have, export the joined clips, and cut them up again. DMF6+ has a real neat new feature called Edit Room. Where you have a lot more flexibility to edit video, then in previous versions. It gives you the option in the Edit Room to Mute the audio.

[draxenato]

Welcome to the forums,

Thanks for the reply

Continue to mute or split (splitting and deleting does the same as muting) the audio, clip by clip.

Ah, I did wonder if muting merely lowered the volume level to zero but left the MP3 data intact, thus still padding out the finished file.
Anyhoo, is there no way to select multiple clips and perform a single edit function (such as muting audio) on them ?

If you don't have the original clip prior to splitting them up, then recapture, then mute the audio before you cut them up.

Yeah that occurred to me, but it would basically undo the last day's work

Plus I can see projects coming up where I might wanna keep audio from a couple of clips.

If you have DVDMF 4, 5+ or 6+, then you could insert all your clips into the timeline, select Join. Then mute your audio. Once that is done, depending on the version of DMF you have, export the joined clips, and cut them up again. DMF6+ has a real neat new feature called Edit Room. Where you have a lot more flexibility to edit video, then in previous versions. It gives you the option in the Edit Room to Mute the audio.

I couldn't find the Join function, does Relinking do the same thing ?
Ummm, call me Mr Thicky but I don't see what that last option would achieve...

[Ron P.]

There is no way to select multiple clips and mute the audio. That's why I asked if you had one of the DVD MovieFactory versions. I was explaining the Join function which is not found in VS10, but in DVD MovieFactory. You can join the 150 clips, then mute the audio. If you need to keep the 150 clips separate, you either have to split by scene again, or just mute the audio 1 clip at a time...

You could download the Trial Version of DVDMF 6+] if you do not have it or earlier versions.

[draxenato]

Okey dokey, cheers for clearing that up mate