CANT MOVE VIDEO CLIP EXACTLY WHERE I WANT

[theoppositeofsad]

hello,

this is by far the most frustrating thing to happen to my workflow. When i click " Show audio time units " so i can have my video move EXACTLY on beat it just moves to a frame, im trying to match up the video exactly to the music and when i try to move it anywhere it just goes to a frame. im really bent up over this i cant work at all or get anything done in this video

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

Video can't do partial frames ... period.

So you need to slip the video left or right in relation to the audio track ... or of course vice versa. This is the process to slip a video clip by audio units over an audio clip:

• Set the hamburger menu for the sequence to "Show Audio Units" as you noted.
• Right-click the clip and make sure it is not linked to the audio ... there's an "Unlink" option if it's linked. If so, click that.
• Set the CTI (playhead) to the exact time you want the video clip to be 'on'.
• Use Alt/left-right to nudge the video clip one frame left or right by audio time units.
• Use Alt/Shift/left-right to nudge the video clip five frames left or right.

Neil

[theoppositeofsad]

its command left-right to move frame, but that doesnt solve my problem., i need to move the vide in between a frame! or else it wont match up. i was doing it fine and it was moving freely on my other computer i switched to my mac and now its not doing it.

[R Neil Haugen]

Using the above steps, I can move a video frame in those minute audio units ... left/right against the audio. Or I can move the audio in minute units left/right against the video. Those are the ONLY way you can line up video precisely to the music, as ​there are no in-between video frames. Period.

​You can't move the video in-between a frame. There isn't any such thing. There ​are​ many discrete different audio 'moments' between video frames. And sometimes, that exact 1/23.98th of a second from a video clip doesn't match precisely with a certain sound ... one clip is just before, the next  just after. Because that's the nature of video ... so many frames per second, while audio is so many "frames" per millisecond.

Which is a huge difference. And very frustrating when the drummer's stick isn't actually shown at the moment of impact for instance. Been there done that. One frame is ​just​ before the drum-stick contacts drum-head, the next frame, it's on the way up. Yea.

Neil

[theoppositeofsad]

oh wow thats really annoying haha,,,,but thank you guys for the help!

[R Neil Haugen]

This is a very complex work, doing video images mixed with sound over time. And there's some awesome amazing things that you didn't even realize you can do, and some things that seem like you should ... but can't.

The sound stream is something like what, 48,000 "images" per second? Can you imagine what your file size would be with 48,000 video images per second? A couple seconds fills a 4TB drive, right?

Yea ... so trying to put 48k/per-second sound with 23.976 or even 59.98 video images per second together has some inherent frustrations.

Neil

[excited_Genie16B8]

You can't move video between frames.  You'll have to move the audio.