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DrGonzo55
DrGonzo55
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December 31, 2018
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Manual synchronization - inching up.

  • December 31, 2018
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Another question about synchronization:

I clapped three times and here you can see the waveforms of the first two claps.

I am trying to get them to line up exactly and this is why I zoomed in to the highest resolution possible.

Yet there seems to be no tool that would offer me to nudge the claps to be at the exact time, or trim the waveform exactly at the beginning of the first clap.

What are the tools that would allow me to trim the soundtracks to the resolution of one line that is shown?

(I do record WAV files.)

DaVinci Resolve had the ',' and '.' or '<' and '>' shortcut keys. That was pretty handy.

I cannot even trim the soundtracks evenly.

And I made observations about how much sound quality is lost due to this imperfect lineup.

Thank you.

Happy New Year!

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

The circled item in your reply is the Program monitor's time-code display. Typically you change which moment/frame you're working or looking at by the timeline's time display.

This changes where the current time indicator is located, the CTI. Or playhead.

You can select a clip, audio or video, and "nudge" it forward/backward by keyboard shortcuts. Open the Keyboard Shortcuts panel, search for "nudge".

To change the timing of an audio clip, right- click, modify and select the option you need.

Neil

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Brainiac
December 31, 2018

I would imagine the timeline is set to display in video frame units. Click the 3 bar menu for the timeline and select display audio units.

You can't adjust in partial video frames, so with that controlling the timeline you can only move by full frames at however many frames per second you have.

Audio time units allow much finer tweaking as needed for working with audio.

Neil

DrGonzo55
DrGonzo55Author
Known Participant
January 1, 2019

And still,

is there any way I can change the number for how much a track was stretched or moved,

the same way I can type in a number for the playhead position?

I started using zoom, razor, slide, rate stretch, learned their shortcut keys,

and yet I am still unable to get that stretch number to change precisely,

by typing in numbers or by pressing some arrows.

Thank you.

DrGonzo55
DrGonzo55Author
Known Participant
January 3, 2019

DrGonzo,

Alt + right or left arrow allows to nudge.

But how do I apply this to Rate Stretch Tool?

Sorry, but that feature doesn't exist. It's an awfully good feature request, though. Please make that request here and I'll be sure to upvote it. Just give us the URL!

Thanks,
Kevin


I am switching to DaVinci Resolve Studio because it has this feature and many other such useful features.

Also it doesn't screw with the .XML output of the audio/video synchronization(lip sync, drift correction) software called Red Giant PluralEyes, while Premiere does misalign the generated XML timeline.

I think that the best way to look for new features is to look at the competitor's product.

The 'inching up' problem is solved rather uniformly in all functions that may require that task.

Maybe new Premiere could include the functionality of PluralEyes in it.

Thank you.

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