Breaking apart a compound audio clip...

,,,removes all the video clips attached to it. What to do?

Compount audio track and video clips
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When breaking apart my compound clip, audio is no more visible in the clips

when I broke aprt my large compound clip the audio part of teh clip was no longenr visible therefore i could not work on tne audio part ;What can be done ?

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I think I found the answer because I just made smaller compound clips and when I break them apart the audio is again visible but this time the video is only visible in the viewer and inspector which is enough to edit sso far...

How do I break a stereo audio clip to get the left and right separately

$subject really. If I break apart a stereo audio clip I just get track 1, I can't get track 2.
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I tried that, but I keep getting "Unsupported Clip" in the channel configuration audio tab of the Inspector.
Here's my workflow:
Import Flip cam's h.264/AAC MP4 files
Edit a clip into a project.
Break apart the clip, to give separate video and audio segments
The green audio segment (will have -a1 after the name in the segment) will be say it's an "Unsupported Clip" in the channel configuration audio tab of the Inspector.
If I change the original clip to dual mono before I break apart I get two mono clips, which is what I was after (but then I could just disable one of the dual mono tracks without splitting apart if that was all I wanted).
I suggest that getting an "Unsupported Clip" when I break apart these clips is a bug.

Filters gone after using "breaking apart" command

Hi there,
I spent quite a bit of time enhancing my video with filters. Then I used the "Break apart" command (Cmd-Shift-G) on some clips in order to be able to work on the audio tracks separately on those clips. Strangely those clips seem to have lost their video filters! I think this is terrible. Any advice? TY.
André Vanasse

Permanetly gone I'm afraid.... I learned the hard way too. When you break apart a compound clip, you are basically destroying it, not just "opening" it up. you have to double click it to "dive in" to the clip. I realize theres times when this isn't a good enough solution, only work around I have is to copy the clip before you destroy it, make your changes, then remake a compound clip and then "Paste Effects" this kinda does what your looking for. good luck!

Need to move audio clip to primary storyline without disturbing sync

I had a video clip in the primary storyline from which I detached the audio. I then lifted the clip by selecting it and clicking option-cmd-up arrow. What is the simplest way, preferably with keyboard shortcuts rather than dragging, of putting the audio clip in the primary storyline in sync with the video?
Here's a screen shot of my timeline after detaching the audio and lifting the video:

AFAICT you need to have some video clip to make that work. The following workaround is a bit messy, but can do the trick.
1) Add some short video clip connected below the audio (it can be a placeholder or a gap, or something else)
2) Select the audio and the dummy video and make that a compound clip (option-G)
3) Select the compound and command-option-downArrow to overwrite to the primary.
3) break apart the compound clip (select it and do Clip->Break Apart Clip Items, or Cmd-Shift-G)
4) delete the dummy video

When I drag a synchonised clip to timeline, can I turn off the video's audio track only without breaking apart clips?

I have preparred many clips by synchonising them with audio recorded on H4N - and have these in keywords.
When I drag them to the timeline, do I have to break apart each clip item to turn off the video's audio track or is there a shortcut to doing this?

For each clip you can go to the audio portion of inspector and uncheck/disable the tracks you don't desire. That would take longer than Tom's method, but I think the audio won't show up as a blank later on.

Second camera lost in breaking apart clip items

Hi there,
I did some syncing with two camera's and separate audio (Using Plural Eyes 3.5 (why does it on a Mac does not recognise MP4?)).
Made a Compound clip from it.
Now, when I double click I zoom into the compound clip and see my two camera clips perfectly synced so I can choose (I am not using multicam here),
BUT when I hitShift-Command G for breaking apart clip items. I only see one camera 1 (on storyline).
Note, when I zoom in (rubble click) on the compound clip; I see that the camera clips of camera 2 are bundled in a compound.. maybe that has something to do with it?)
Thx already!
Stephan

Thx.. can't figure out the issue I described. Tried it again and now it does work.
Regarding Plural eyes I have a screenshot. Its 4K footage form Lumix GH4. What I do is simply change the name to .mov and it works. Shouldm't be necessary though.
thx!

I Can No Longer Break Apart Clip Items??

For some reason, I can no longer drag a clip from the browser to the main timeline, then lift and then proceed to break it apart into a video and seperate audio tracks. I was doing this all the time, but now this option seems to have disappeared. I tried repairing permissions... I can access the components of the clip with the "open in new timeline" option after dragging down the maintimeline and lifting, but that still doens't explain why I can't choose or shortcut to break it apart in the main timeline, when lifted, anymore??? Anyone else having this issue?
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Dustin

Dustin, let me know if I haven't understood your post correctly.
You create a new project and set the frame rate to 23.98P
The media in your Events is 30P
From what I understand, your saying that if you drop a 30P clip in a 23.98P project, your unable to Break Apart Clip Items..?
Works perfectly fine for me.

Why Will Synced clips not break apart on the timeline?

I have created a number of synced clips in the evnt browser, and added them to my timeline. Now if i try to break aprt the synced clips on my timeline, it no longer allows me to in FCP X 10.0.9. What gives?

I can't reproduce this. I tried a few synchronized clips, and Clip->Break Apart Clip Items worked as expected.
Try deleting preferences.

I am trying to use the auto audio-sync feature. When I select the video and audio clip to be synced FCPX says its syncing them and then once finished (at 100%) no compound clip is created and the video and audio file do not sync. Any help is appreciated.

I am trying to use the auto audio-sync feature. When I select the video and audio clip to be synced FCPX says its syncing them and then once finished (at 100%) no compound clip is created and the video and audio file do not sync. Any help is appreciated.

Hi
In iMovie'11 (version 9.0.x)
on top menu row - Apple/iMovie/File/Edit/Cut (Can vary dep. on language - in Swedish Apple/iMovie/Arkiv/Redigera/Klipp . . . )
down Cut menu - Slow playback/Raspid Playback/Re-play in Slow Motion and onvards
Here one can select the Pre-Set speeds
Are you familiar with getting 'inspector' to run?
No - but I guess that Double Click on clip/sequense or ctrl-Click on it might open it.
Yours Bengt W

Aim trying to put 2 audio clips together and you can hear the unnatural break. Is there a transition I can insert to cover it. Kind if like we do with video?

aim trying to put 2 audio clips together and you can hear the unnatural break. Is there a transition I can insert to cover it up. Kind of like we do with video clips? Like an overlay? Thank you

You could put the two clips on two different tracks with a slide overlap and fade the first clip out out and the second clip in.
Or trim both clips in a way, that the first clip ens with silence and the second clip starts with silence.

Syncing multi audio clips to video

I need to sync multiple audio clips with a video clip. I have footage that was shot that had multiple people in the scene so multiple mics boom etc. However whenever I select the video clip and the 4 audio clips and click syncronize clips it only syncronizes one audio with the clip?
How do I get all the audio clips synced with the video clip?

DJ Duke wrote:
Yeah, I did open the sync clip and the audio files are there ( in a different unique sync timeline), but that doesn't help because I need top open them in the regular timeline I use for editing the project and opnly one audio file shows up.
Any suggestions how to fix this or work around?
This is the way it works. The synchronized clip is a compound clip. You add it to your timeline. If necessary, you can open it by double-clicking it in the timeline, make the necessary edits, and hit the back button (the little triangle at the top left of the timeline) to return to the project timeline.
If you do not want it collapsed that way, but you rather insist on seeing all the connected audio clips directly in your project, then you have two options:
1) select the compound clip in the timeline and choose "Clip->Break Apart Clip Items"
or
2) open the compound clip, select everything, copy; and then paste wherever you want it in your project.

How do you move the point where an audio clip attaches to a video clip?

I'm talking about the little carrot that sticks from one clip to another to indicate the point where the cips are syncronized. How do you move their position? Thank you!
Eric

The manual says ...
Adjust the connection point of a connected clip
By default, connected clips and storylines are connected to the primary storyline at their first frame, but you can move the“connection point” of a connected clip or storyline. This is useful when you want to connect a specific frame or audiosample in the connected clip or storyline with a specific frame or audio sample in the primary storyline.
Hold down the Command and Option keys, and click the connected clip (or the gray border of the storyline) at thepoint where you want to position the connection point.
The connection point is moved to the point where you clicked.
For other things ... If you want to move the audio clip in relation to the video clip just click on it and drag it to the left or right. This is when your audio clip is a separate clip from your video clip. If you want to move the audio that is part of a video clip, you first have to select that clip then choose Clip/Break Apart Clip Items then do one of the things listed above. Best wishes.

How can I match sound quality between video clips and audio clips?

Hi guys,
First of all let me say that I enjoy using the latest Media Encoder. However, as a novice, I have two related problems.
1.I am recording video to use with PowerPoint slides in Adobe Captivate. I am encoding the video with best quality FLV. This produces very good video,
      but with a degraded audio track, even though I had filtered the audio in soundbooth. The post encoding sounds like it did before Soundbooth corrections.
2. Some of the video recording has been set cut into audio clips to be used as background narration behind PowerPoint. The logic behind this is: that if both are
      recorded at the same time, the voice quality should match.
This is far from the outcome. I have tried MP3 for the audio which of course produced the best sound- but is entirely unlike the rest of the video. I have also encoded the audio with Windows Waveform preset figuring that since the soundbooth edit was a .wav file, that there should be a reasonable match. Wrong again!
So, the audio quality of all clips is poor, and the difference between the encoded video clips, and the audio encoded clips spoils the otherwise professional result in Captivate.
Please help, all of you experts.

Thank you.
OS Windows 7 x 64; 3.2 MHz; 2 TB; 12 GB Ram-9GB ram allocated to Adobe.
My process is this:
1. The whole video and audio narration material is shot in one continuous video sesseion.
2. The microphone is only mono, but the camera is set to stereo. Noone can work out how to change the camera to mono.
3. In Premiere Pro 5, I select render and replace in SoundBooth.
4. In Soundbooth, I choose Add Multichannels.
5. In Multichannels, I delete the unwanted noisy channel, and any other unused channels.
6. With the remaining mono channel, I then select Export and Save As option, then Stereo.
7. Next I edit the stereo channels as needed.
8. The imported stereo won't automatically update in Premiere Pro, so in PPR I import the new edited stereo track.
9. I test this track in PPR, to check that it is playing R & L channels. It is. OK.
10 On the timeline, I proceed to cut apart this single stereo wavelength .
11.These clips are saved as Video, or Audio subclips.
12 From the video subclips, I export to Media Encoder, and choose either FLV4 match attributes (High Q). This I modify to custom 2 pass (Custom save).
     The summary says that this is saved to MP3 Stereo.
13. I import this into Captivate 5, but the Video outcome is Left channel only. I have tested this on Media Player/Real Player where it is also L channel only.
14. I export my Audio subclips to Media player, and select MP3 option and this summary also reports stereo. The Audio outcome is stereo, when played in any player and in Captivate 5.
I cannot understand how a single, continuous track edited uniformly in Soundbooth to stereo, can produce different outcomes in Media player.
I would so appreciate a solution to this problem, because, in the Captivate 5 e-learning production, the switch between stereo audio (behind PowerPoints), and l. channel video is distracting. Naturally, the l. channel only is a thin sound. It is as if it had never been edited in SoundBooth at all.

Can no longer select or move audio clips on Narration track - what happened??

I began my first Adobe Premiere Elements 11 project this morning, a short video (5 mins) I intend to upload to YouTube. It's a comedy sketch involving inanimate objects that "talk", so it requires a lot of dialogue to be added to, in this case, the Narration track.
I am not new to Premiere Elements. In fact, I've done quite a bit of fairly complex editing on previous versions of the software (I upgraded to 11.0 from 8.0). I've never had this problem before.
After editing this project for well over 2 hours with no problem, I can suddently no longer move or even select any audio clip on my Narration track. They are just frozen and stuck there. Everything else works normally. I can select and move all other clips on all other tracks. Further, all audio clips will play, even the ones on the Narration track. However, I can no longer move, select, or even add any clip to the Narration track.
I opened a new project to see if the problem persisted, but it didn't - I could add, select, move audio clips on the Narration track just fine.
I'm stuck and bewildered. The project I've already invested 2-3 hours into seems permanently broken. The audio clips on my Narration track will play, but I can't select, move, or otherwise do anything to them.
My fear is not just that I'll have to start this project over again, but I'll never know when it will break again, and I'll lose all my work again.
Help!
Seriously, does anyone know what's happened?

sleinbach
Thanks for the details. As I suggested this idea that I had after reading this thread may be just nonesense, but I thought it would be interesting to try.
This is recommended done with a copy of the project that you have now.
For now, let us assume that the missing track names are part of the locked Narration Track syndrome. I am not sure if your narration clip was generated in Premiere Elements narration feature or created elsewhere and brought into the program. That would be interesting information to have. But, nonetheless, moving forward with this idea.
Given you cannot move, delete, change, etc what is on this Narration Track. Whatever is on that Narration Track traces back to an original on the hard drive and probably is shown in Media Cache's (Adobe Folder) as conformed audio cfa and pek set.
a. Find the narration hard drive hard location and move it to a new location (special folder on hard drive). When you go back to the copy of the problem project, you should be greeted with one of those "Where is....?" messages. Cancel out of that. Do not do anything within that message dialog.
b. Right click the thumbnail for your narration in Project Media and select Replace Footage. Then browse to and select the original that you had moved to the computer desktop and the special folder there.. Click OK. That should restore the file (including whatever effects were made to the file) to the project.
c. Has any of that had any effect on unlocking the Narration Track?
Other maneuvers to try
a. Trying to locate and delete any cfa or pek files associated with the problem audio.
b. Switching to an Aero Theme for Windows if you do not have one set so far.
Thanks for giving all of that a look at.
ATR

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