Adding a piece in front of video

[abgino]

Hi Everyone:
I am working on a video for my friend who after I'm almost done has given me a longer piece of music that would throw the tingeing of the video off. Is there a way to add a say 10 second chunk in the front of it without having it change the timing.


Thank you

[Terfyn]

Are you aware that you can stretch or compress an audio track? This action changes the timing of the music, compressing speeds it up and stretching slows it down. This may be acceptable if the change in length is only slight.

You press and hold the shift key, you grab the end of the audio clip on the timeline and move it to match the end of the video.
If you do not hold the shift key, you cut the music clip. The shift key will allow the piece of music to remain whole.

[lata]

Hi abgino

Not sure what you actually want to do, can you explain further

If you want to add a clip to the beginning of the top track, it will move the top track to the right.
If you wish to also move the other tracks to keep them in sync’ use Ripple Editing
Select the small “Padlocks to the lift of the timelines to set Ripple editing.

Now when you add a clip all timelines will move right, locked together.

For further info, press F1 for help and search for Ripple

[abgino]

Hi;
I have a video almost ready finished when I was given a new soundtrack that has a longer into about 10 seconds. When I take out the old audio and replace it with the new one it throws the timing off on the entire video. I was hoping there was a way I could adjust everything to fit the new sound track and not throw my timing off the rest of the video. I am using VS 5.

Thank you so much

[pvreditor]

Sounds like you need to turn on "Ripple Editing," which will keep all the relationships between tracks the same when you add something new. Here's what you do:

1. Just to the left of the main video track timeline is a little icon with a down arrow. Click on the down arrow, then click on "Enable Ripple Editing."
2. Click on the down arrow again and click on "Select All."

That's it... when you insert new material at the beginning of the project, VideoStudio will move all the existing elements to the right and keep their timing exactly where it was.

Caution: Ripple editing is more complex than you might think, and it will sometimes give you puzzling error messages.If any new content overlaps any old content, ripple editing is not sure what to do and will give you a scary error message. You have to understand this and compensate by making sure there is no overlap. In your case, you may need to insert some new video at the beginning of your project to compensate for the longer audio track. At least that's what I think you will have to do, based on your description.

Good luck!

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[BrianCee]

Well if yo are not prepared to shorten the audio clip as Terfyn suggested then you need to make the video itself longer - which is not possible without adding a bit. do you have any stills in the video track - that would be the easiest thing just to extend each of them by a little - if there are no stills then you need to find another 10 seconds of video from somewhere and just insert it between any two clips in the timeline.

[Terfyn]

Well if yo are not prepared to shorten the audio clip as Terfyn suggested then you need to make the video itself longer - which is not possible without adding a bit. do you have any stills in the video track - that would be the easiest thing just to extend each of them by a little - if there are no stills then you need to find another 10 seconds of video from somewhere and just insert it between any two clips in the timeline.

And you can stretch video clips in the same way as audio - thats if you like slow motion

You do not say how long your video is. If your music is, say, five minutes long, compressing it by ten seconds will be hardly noticable. I have used this method on some commercial tracks to fit a video clip and the result is often an improvement. Remember that as the audio is in digital form, there will be no change in pitch (unlike speeding up an analogue recording) but a slight speeding up of the tempo. ( Your friend may never even notice!)

[lata]

Hi
Seems to be getting complicated for what you are trying to do.........

I assume that both audio clips start at the first frame, at the beginning of the timelines.

Add another clip to the top track 10 seconds long, image or color clip (Black)
Place the clip at the beginning of the top track.
This will nudge the top track to the right bringing it in line with the new audio.
If needed adjust the duration of the clip, frame by frame to sync’

Note if you have other clips, maybe titles then enable Ripple Editing will move all timelines with the top track.

[Terfyn]

We all have our views. Yes you can add a blank to the video. Yes you can stretch the video and Yes you can compress the audio by 10 seconds. That is the wonder of VideoStudio Pro X5.
You will do whatever suits the situation the best.

I have used both the stretching of the video to fit an audio track and compressing the audio to fit the length of the video. Both have their place in the range of editing tools. The one danger of 10 seconds of blank screen is that the viewer will think the TV has gone on the blink!!
I would probably go for a slight stretch of the video tracks and a slight compression of the audio.

[lata]

Hi

I have to disagree, stretching the video will cause some derogation in the quality.
The only way VS can do this is by adding duplicate frames causing a blip at that point.

Adding a clip to the beginning will have the effect of syncing the audio and video, sound should be playing as we assume the extra 10 seconds does contain audio, add a title and you have an intro. As mentioned earlier the new clip can be anything not necessarily a black clip.


But I do agree that there are many options to do this.

[Terfyn]

Hi

I have to disagree, stretching the video will cause some derogation in the quality.
The only way VS can do this is by adding duplicate frames causing a blip at that point.

I have not found this to be the case. A stretch using the shift key just slows the action slightly. Yes extra frames may be inserted but the effect is to slow the motion down. It gives the same effect as the speed setting in the Options menu.

We are talking 10 seconds here. I suggested 5 seconds extra for the video and 5 seconds less for the audio. A five second compression of the audio would hardly be noticed in a piece of music, say 5 minutes long. Stretching the video would normally be spread over a number of shots, say, 1 second over five shots.

OR a ten second added to a title. A still frame, as Brian suggested, with a Title superimposed.