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ollielansdell
Participant
June 24, 2018
Question

Relinking Audio in Existing Sequence

  • June 24, 2018
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A director has given me a project to "polish" and mix, However every single bit of audio is out of sync, sometimes scratch audio has been used.

And all of it looks like this....also they are not very keen on me changing any of the cuts.

I've resynced the audio properly in a separate selects sequence, and am currently rebuilding the project from scratch using the synced clips, but wondering if there may be a better technique to reference the audio from my own synced sequence?

It's a large project so would appreciate any advice on how to speed up the process.

Thank you very much

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Kevin-Monahan
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Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 11, 2018

Get this fixed yet, TobyL? Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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rodneyb56060189
Legend
June 25, 2018

Unfortunately, I have no clue what you are working on and it would be HUGE waste of your time to explain it to me. The photo you posted doesn't look to me like you have many video clips perfectly aligned with sound tracks (like slated shots). Maybe the photo is not showing the first video level and first audio track. I have no clue. If you say scratch track I'm thinking " music vocals and band stuff as basic idea before tweaked recording session ?" I don't know what external sound means. Maybe if you just give people a real simple general idea what your project is someone might get some brain storms. Is it a music video ? Is it a live performance of some kind ?

After simple explanation of what the project is generally speaking, maybe explain how you are sync'ing things without slates or beeps or nothin, as that would have been edited out by the first guys, right ? Plus, they wouldn't have everything out of sync to begin with if they had slates or beeps or something to sync with.

Finally, what is your goal ? They want you to fix it. Meaning sync it. They also want you to mix and tweak it so it sounds better.

So if you start nesting stuff wouldn't that interfere with doing some of that mixing and fine tuning ??

Please don't trouble with long explanations and so on, cause I don't want to waste your time, but a brief explanation might help some users of forum figure out what suggestions might work for you.

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excited_Genie16B8
Legend
June 25, 2018

Make a duplicate sequence and do the work there.  This retains the original to fall back on.

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ollielansdellAuthor
Participant
June 25, 2018

Thank you, sadly this is the approach i'm already using.
And copying another sequences cuts is just madly time consuming even with them side by side as they have to be pretty much identical.

I think perhaps what I'm after is a way to replace the scratch audio on these video clips with the external audio without exporting synced clips and using 'replace footage', It would be perfect to just match frame and bring my synced audio back into the project but maybe this isn't possible.

Maybe I can make a nested clip for each synced clip and replace the originals in a sequence with those?

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rodneyb56060189
Legend
June 24, 2018

I'm curious... you got the thing from someone and ALL the audio is out of sync. Did you by any chance ask the person who gave you the stuff if they could send you stuff that is NOT out of sync ?  Wouldn't that be the fastest way to select individual sound clips and adjust things to mix the stuff nicer than what they had ?

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    ollielansdellAuthor
    Participant
    June 24, 2018

    Well essentially they said 'we've editing it but it needs fixing', meaning all of the sound is out of sync.

    I have re-synced all of the external audio with every shot on a separate timeline, it's just adding it to the existing work is what's going to take ages. I can of course easily recover the scratch audio with match frame but the external audio is the real issue short of editing the whole thing again.

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