Adding audio clips - a small problem

[Berzelius]

I have VideoStudio 11 Plus running under Windows XP/HE/SP2.

My current project consists of a number of video clips and I wish to add a brief voiceover every few clips. I realise that I could use the Record function in VideoStudio but I prefer to prepare MP3 clips outside of VideoStudio and then add them to the Voice Track.

I go to Timeline View and select the clip to which I wish to add an audio clip. I then right mouse click, select Add Audio and To Voice Track and then select the appropriate mp3 clip and insert it. What happens then is that the audio clip is inserted into the Voice Track but it butts up against the previously inserted audio clip rather than staying under the selected video clip so that I have to drag it to the right to match up to the video clip. I suspect that this is a limitation of VideoStudio but is there any way of getting the audio clip to stay lined up with the selected video clip when it is inserted?

[less2008]

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Have you tried putting the additional voice over audio in the "music" track within the timeline?

[mostly] Any audio file type can go in either voice and music tracks.

Painful to do, but when I've had more than 2 audio tracks to blend, I'd create a video file with the primary audio's, then open a new project, bring in that new video file and add the additional audio files.

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Edited to fix my more gooder English ... "Hey you" was meant to be "Have you"

[Ron P.]

AFAIK, there is no way in VS to add the audio track, at a given location. You have to drag it to the location in the timeline..

You might want to add it to the Wishlist

Try placing a Cue Marker where you want to add the audio. It still does not allow placing the audio directly at the cue marker, but it seems that while dragging clips, there is sort of a "snapping" (like Snap to Grids) that happens at cue markers. It might make dragging them to the precise location a little easier. You know sometimes every "little bit" helps...

[Clevo]

Like with Smartsounds couldn't you use the scrubbing curser to mark the insertion point?

[Ron P.]

No, VS still wants to insert the audio clip as far to the left as is possible. What Corel could have done, and probably will (with VS35 Pro) is utilize how MSP8 inserts clips. With MSP8, it does not insert the clip (audio, image, video) until and at the location you click in the timeline.

A nice "wishlist" feature would be inserting at cue-point markers. Place cue markers along the timeline, then from a right-click menu, the option to "insert at cue-point____".

[Berzelius]

Thanks for the replies. They should save me wasting time trying to do something that can't be done.

[randazzo]

My workflow is as follows. I import all the needed the audio files into the library and from there drag it to any desired place in the time line.