Time duration & fixed overlays

[watoo22]

Hello,

I'm using Video Studio x9 and I'm wondering why I cannot adjuste the time duration between like 1:24 and 2:00m.
When I want to add one centiseconde to 1:24 it goes up directly to 2:00.

I'm also seeking for a way to fixe overlays together.
Because when I change the time duration of the main overlays, other overlays are desynchronize and I need to move them manually.
Any automatic way to do it ?

Hope you see my points. Let me know if you need some clarification.

[Ken Berry]

I bet you are in a PAL country...!

I say this since you obviously don't understand the layout of the clocks in Video Studio (and other editing programs). When you see a digital clock on the VS screen it will appear 00:00:00:00. But the important thing is that this means Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames. The Frames are obviously enough fractions of a second. PAL video uses 25 frames per second (and NTSC uses 30, or more accurately 29.97). So with PAL video if the clock is showing 00:00:01:24, this means 1 second and 24 frames. Then if you add one more frame this makes it 25 or one full second, and thus the next reading will be 00:00:02:00...or two seconds zero frames.

[BrianCee]

To 'lock' your overlays in position against the top video track you need to enable 'Ripple Editing' look to the left hand end of the timeline you will see a number of little padlocks - click on the one against the top track to enable - then click to close the padlocks against the overlay tracks you want to lock to it

read about Ripple Editing in the user guide "Help >> User Guide"


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[watoo22]

Oh I see, it now makes sense. Indeed 1/24 s will be largely enough to synchronize the audio.
Ripple Editing works fine also, great feature. I'll now use the english user guide.

Thanks both of you for the quick answers