Split Audio and Relinking

[Chris0709]

Is there a way with MS after splitting the audio from the video to relink it? This would be helpful also when you are bringing in separate audio and video files in keeping synch with video while editing. Any suggestions? If not possible, would be a great feature for MS8.

[Maukka]

I don't think it is ailable. I looked for that feature in MSP7 for some time. I asked about it here or another forum. But I never found out any way for doing that.
I agree, it would be very useful.

Maukka

[Terry Stetler]

I do too, but with all the other changes some of the smaller requests had to wait a bit given the time available for the project. Maybe in a service pack.

[Gorf]

Is there a way with MS after splitting the audio from the video to relink it? This would be helpful also when you are bringing in separate audio and video files in keeping synch with video while editing. Any suggestions? If not possible, would be a great feature for MS8.

If you just want to reunite audio and video with the same mark in and mark out points, at the same start time, just right-click the clip and select "unite" - note that the audio and video must be on the same track.

If you want to maintain synch - you can "group" an audio and video track together, so that when you drag one, the other comes with it. However you lose the ability to scissor or trim the clips. To do so, you'd need to ungroup them and scissor or trim them as two separate operations, then regroup them.

[Chris0709]

The unite function does not work at all. I have a clip that is 13 seconds long starting at 00:00:00 in track Va and an audio clip of the same length in track Aa. The unite function still remains greyed out. This function does not work. This is in version 7 not 8. Haven't tried it in 8.

[Maukka]

The "unite" function seems to amount to "undo split" as the only time when it is available (in MSP7) is when the same video and audio clips have previously been separated by using the "split" function.

Grouping video and audio is the only allternative. But as pointed out earlier in this thread, this prevents any further editing, unless one ungroups them first. This is a drag particularly in longer projects: one easily forgets to regroup the clips after editing, and later they may become out of sync.

Hopefully the "unite" function will work better in MSP8.

Maukka

[Gorf]

The unite function does not work at all. I have a clip that is 13 seconds long starting at 00:00:00 in track Va and an audio clip of the same length in track Aa. The unite function still remains greyed out. This function does not work. This is in version 7 not 8. Haven't tried it in 8.

It does work, you're just expecting it to do something it doesn't do.

As Maukka says - it's the opposite of split. If you split, then move the audio, change its mark in/out or duration, or replace with audio from elsewhere, it will be greyed out. For "unite" to work, the audio and video have to come from the same media asset, have the same duration, and the same mark in/out points.