Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 Ultimate New User

[Shadowblade]

Hi,

I just bought Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 Ultimate this week and I've made a video of stills against a soundtrack and a movie of video clips against a soundtrack.

I can edit clips and copy segments, reverse them and string them together, but when I put clips in they automatically go to 00:00:00 or line up contiguous with the preceding clips. This is not what I want to do.

Obviously, I want the action on the video to synchronise with the music, which often happens just by chance. EG, if a 25 second video clip syncs perfectly for 25 seconds from 00:01:25 to 00:01:50 of the soundtrack, that is where I want the clip to go. Also, if a longer clip synchronises in the middle, I want to delete the front and back bits but leave the middle of the clip where it is.

I don't necessarily want to build the movie up from the beginning.

Ripple Editing is useless as it deletes the music track and shunts the remaining video up to 00:00:00 anyway. The point of that feature is lost on me at the moment. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?

Is there any way to do what I want to do?

I have a copy of Audio Editor Pro and I can insert gaps and silence into the waveform of music tracks, edit long pieces into shorter pieces with no noticeable splice junctions etc. I thought I could do the same sort of thing with video clips with Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 Ultimate, but I can't find a way of inserting blanks or gaps into the video timeline or making the clip go where *I* want it to go.


Any help gratefully received.


Cheers!
~

[Ken Berry]

There are a couple of ways of going about this -- though I am a little mystified about only having video clips or photos appearing now and then. What is playing otherwise -- blackness?

But if you want black -- or any other colour -- spaces between clips, and are using the main video track, which I assume you are doing, simply intersperse your video with a colour panel selected from the graphics icon to the right of the preview screen. See photo.

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You simply drag whichever colour you want down to the timeline, then drag on the yellow bar at the right hand end to make it as large or as small as you want to fit between the clips.

The other way is to put your clips in the various overlay tracks available in X5. They will stay where you place them in those tracks, unlike in the main video timeline track.

[Shadowblade]

Thanks, I'll try that.

Yes, I'm using the main video timeline as I've only just started. I was thinking I might have to put in blank bits, like blank title frames, add my clip and then trim the preceding blank until the edited clip starts where I want it to. A bit cumbersome!

But I can put clips in the overlay row and they will stay exactly where I put them and play just as if they are in the main video timeline? That seems like the answer! A bit like multi-tracking music? Can you have nothing in the main video timeline?

The idea is to build the video up like a pastiche, but not necessarily from the start to the finish because when I edit an earlier clip to sync well, everything else that used to sync well shunts up instead of staying where it is and allowing me to cut the end of the preceding bit off. But if I put them in different overlay tracks, that should be achievable, unless I've misunderstood. I'll RTFM, but I just started using it and it wasn't too hard to work out the basic editing and so on, although I need help with more complex stuff.

The gaps will be filled in with other bits of video, but at the moment if I want a 25 second clip to go at 1:25 to 1:50 of the sound track, that's where I want to put it and stay there locked in place when I trim the ends off and not move about. So I can lock clips in the overlay timeline like that? Excellent!

I think I saw somewhere there are 16 overlay tracks?


Cheers!

[teknisyan]

Regarding the overlay tracks. You can now use 20 overlay tracks on VS X5.