Locking Audio Clips etc

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I have this feeling that I'm close to what I want to do, but I'm missing something as it's not quite working as I hoped it would.
Here's what I want to be able to do:
The scenario: I'm interviewing someone about, for example, their classic Harley Davidson Motorbike and during the interview I want the speech to remain throughout the whole movie, but I want to be able to "cut away" to shots of the bike, then come back to the person speaking at the exact right moment using editing in iMovie. How would I do this?
Thanks

1. Extract the Audio from the the video clip (Advanced/Extract Audio). You will then have an audio clip on the audio line right below your video clip. Leave it there. The original audio in your video clip will be muted. You will be using the extracted audio clip for your audio.
2. Split the video clip at the point where you want to insert the photo.
3. Insert the photo at the point of the split.
4. Subtract (trim back) a time equal to the duration of your photo from the front portion of the split clip following the photo. (You will need first to turn off Show Clip Volume Levels from the View menu.) Your photo is being substituted in the place of that portion of the video that you are trimming back.
The above procedure will give you a continuous, uninterrupted, voice over for all of the photos that you insert. If you don't want a voice over while the photo is displayed, then just split the video clip without extracting the audio, insert the photo, and after the photo is displayed the the video and the voice will pick up where it left off.

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Is there a ceiling on # of locked audio clips?

When my current iMovie project went all hiccup and drag, I tried many of the tips suggested here including a mega-dose of maintentance -- repair permissions, CacheOutX, etc.
Nothing worked until I began deleting zeroed-out extracted audio. That restored clean sound. But the video was still twitchy. Next I installed the recent PB graphics update. That appeared to slightly improve video (but I may have imagined it).
Finally, I cleared the 85 sound effects locked to still photos. That restored smooth video.
So here's the question: I had tested the sound effect (same one, a camera click) on several video stills before locking in 85, and the tests showed no hint of trouble. So was the problem the clip itself -- downloaded free from an Internet sound site -- or the sheer volume? Is there a limit on the number of audio locks iMovie will accept?

Hi, Bengt --
The project is on the internal HD and backed up on externals. Since I'm relatively new to this, I've got to ask: What would be the benefit of disconnecting the externals? Is there some connection between those and the locked audio clips which apparently caused the problem?
I added the externals after the project corrupted, and was able to clean it up with them attached. What am I missing? Probably a whole lot.
Thanks,
Jack

? about "Lock Audio Clip at Playhead"

I've always thought that the purpose of this feature is to make sure that audio and video clips that need to stay synced together in fact do.
Well, I just added a short video clip to my timeline--in the middle of the movie--and it moved all the video clips to the right a bit, as it should--but not the audio clips, which were locked to their respective video!
How could this happen?

Hi folks.
Since we last posted, I have discovered something new about the misbehaving audio lock. Happily, I learned that it does work for me - most of the time. I can select the audio, choose "Lock..." and if I get a yellow pushpin on both the video and audio tracks, then they are properly locked together.
Here's the catch. Sometimes I select the audio, choose "Lock..." and the yellow pushpin only appears on the video track. In that case, they are not locked, and adding video before that pin will lose the sync with the improperly locked audio track. Also, I haven't found a way to get that single pushpin to go away. I can place the playhead there and choose "Lock..." again, but that has no effect (no toggle off and on). I can select a new place in the same audio clip and choose "Lock..." but the pin doesn't move. The only workaround I have found is to move a bit past the defective pin, do a "Split video at playhead" to create a new video track, and then select a spot in the audio clip to lock with the new video clip. The new clip will get the correct double pushpins, and the audio is really locked.
Here is a screen shot of this behavior. Notice that I have several locked audio clips, and I have not placed the locks on the first frame of the video clips. You can see a defective single pushpin on the video associated with audio clip #23. I couldn't remove that pin, so I split the video clip and was able to lock down audio clip #24. (Note: the gaps in the video are intentional - when I had to change tapes. I'll fill them in with some photos, so I have to make sure that I won't lose sync.)
What do you think about that?
Regards.

Lock Audio Clip At Playhead Sometimes Behavior

Lock Audio Clip at Playhead seems to lock it to a point on the timeline. Sometimes. If I lock a clip and then delete an earlier clip, a short (less than 5 sec.) clip stays locked to the timeline even though the video clip it is related to moves. Long (more than 10 sec.) clips, OTOH, move with the related audio. So do clips related to transitions such as Fade Out and Scale Down. What I want to do is lock the audio clip to a specific video clip. And it would be best if that were a default. What to do?

Permissions fixed it.

How do I lock Audio clip at playhead in iMovie

Hi,
I have been using iMovie HD for years. Great program. Finally had to move on to iMovie 10. What a total disaster that is. I have a myriad of issues with it, as does everyone else, but right now I am trying to figure out how to lock an audio clip at the playhead, as one essentially needs to be able to do for even pretty simple home movie edits. Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer? Why do I get the feeling that what used to be a brilliant and intuitive piece of software has been completely eviscerated to the point of uselessness?
Any ideas? Thanks
Richard

Richard Weston-Smith1 wrote:
Am I being stupid or has this functionality been entirely removed by some genius Apple programmer?
No, it's not been removed. You just need to drag your audio clip to the right place.
In your case, you want to drag it directly to the timeline and not to the background music well below the timeline.
Some more information here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov91a895a64
Matt

Locking video clip to audio track?

I have a bunch of video clips in my sequence. A couple of the clips I want at certain points of the audio track and I dont want them to move but when I ripple delete video clips in fron of them it shifts the clips back (moving them away from the specific spot on the audio track). Is there a way to lock a video clip to a certain part of the audio?
I tried "grouping" the video clip and the audio but that doesn't seem to work as the video clips still move.

You can't lock a clip, only a track. Move the desired clips to a higher track and lock that.

Extracted audio not locking onto clips!! -URGENT!

I have a film... about 23 minutes in length.
Throughout the film there are many cuts back and forth between two interviews.
I edited the whole thing (no transitions/titles/black space inbetween yet)... and extracted the audio. I want to voiceover the audio while there are images/video shown.
Now I find that...(now the audio is extracted), I cannot move around the clips.. without the audio becoming un-synched with the visual interviews...
Any suggestions?
P.S. I am quite desparate because I have a public showing of the film in just a couple days!!!
Thanks.

Move the audio clip to the place on the timeline where you want it to start. Go to Advanced menu and click 'Lock Audio to Timeline'.

Lock audio to clip

Can I reattach an audio clip to a video clip? The last IMOVIE I used on a regular basis (6.0) had this function. Cant figure out how to move a clip with the new audio with it.
thanks in advance for any help.

Drag the audio file from the media browser and drop it on the frame of video where you want it to be attached.
If you have background video, you can drag it and pin it to a frame as well, but I find it easiest to add audio as "ribbons" by dropping on a frame.
Good video here that explains how audio works in iMovie.

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

Locking audio to timeline in Premiere Elements

I'm creating a slideshow with pan-and-zoom as well as imported video clips. I've created a "soundtrack" with imported music in Audio Tracks 2 and 3 and manually "mixed" the music so that the audio clips appear "staggered" on the timeline (i.e., one partial song in Track 2, next partial song in Track 3, next partial song in Track 2, etc.). I manually entered beat markers for all of my anticipated video edits (as I have done for all my NLE software projects on other platforms). However, whenever I shorten a video clip, the entire contents of audio tracks 2 and 3 shifts to the left correspondingly. And, of course then my beat markers for the rest of the project don't line up. This is completely maddening. I can not find a way to "pin" or "lock" the audio tracks to the timeline. There isn't even any accompanying video for these tracks -- just music. Every time I shorten a clip to match the beat, Elements "outsmarts" me and moves all future audio out of sync. And I have to shorten each clip because, for stills, the clip duration is set when the stills are "imported" to the project. There must be a way to toggle off this free-floating audio. Any thoughts...? I'd be grateful...!

Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, PrE does not allow Locking Tracks, like PrPro does. I have requested this feature for several years, and for each new PrE release, as I feel it is very important and useful.
I usually am adding my soundtrack as the last thing I do, just before I Export/Share, so it does not bother me that much, but doing what you are, or if one is doing a music video, then being able to Lock those Audio Tracks (I Lock Video Tracks in PrPro often too), would be such a useful feature.
Let's look for a way to get what I think you want, as a few additional steps might make your life a bit easier. You have your "mixed" Audio Clips on two separate Audio Tracks. You have them edited, as you want. I would think about Exporting/Sharing JUST the Audio to a PCM/WAV file @ 48KHz 16-bit. That will effectively mix your two Tracks of Audio into one stereo file. Then, you can Import that output file into your Project, replacing the two Tracks of Audio Clips. Being one file, it will not move, when you edit your Video. Two things to consider: in that output file, you will most likely loose your Beat Markers, but can add those back, and when you go to edit any Clips, that are "covered" by other Clips, some of the edit functions do not work, quite as they did when they were not covered, such as Delete and Close Gap - the gap will not close. It would be the same, if you had a Video Clip above the one that you were editing. Still, for most editing functions, that should not be an issue, but it will depend on how you have edited your Clips to that point. For Stills, you can Ripple Edit, and change the Duration up/down, as needed. If you are working with Video Clips, and have enough extra Frames (referred to as Handles, when dealing with Transitions), you can do the same with them. If they do not have adequate Frames, then you might have to shuffle things around a bit.
By Exporting/Sharing the Audio to a single file, you have, in essence, Locked that Audio Track.
As a side-note, some users have encountered issues with both of the Fixed Audio Tracks, Soundtrack and Narration. The usual "fix" is to just use one of the free "regular" Audio Tracks - just exactly as you have done already. I refrain from using Soundtrack, or Narration (though I have never had those problems), because so many others have reported them.
Good luck, and maybe we will all get lucky, and Adobe WILL honor some feature requests for Track Locking.
Hunt

Can't Move Audio Clips in Timeline After Expanding to View Waveforms (Premiere Pro CC 2014.2)

So, this seems to be a bit of a weird one, and I'd be pretty stoked if it ended up being something silly that I'm doing wrong, but I can't for the life of me figure out what that might be.
As the title suggests, I can't use the mouse to move some audio clips in a timeline once I expand the track to view the waveforms. This appears to only happen with independent audio clips (WAV. AIFF, MP3, etc), and not with clips attached to video. Also, it's worth noting that I don't have track keyframes turned on. I was hoping that was it, but it wasn't.
So, what happens is this:
1) I drag an audio clip down to the timeline (I can drag it onto an existing track, or drag to the bottom of the sequence and create a new track. Neither option seems to get a different result.).
2) So long as the track isn't expanded and the waveform isn't visible, I can move the clip left, right, or up and down to a different track.
3) As soon as I expand the track to view the waveform this functionality goes out the window. When this issue happens I can use the keyboard to nudge left and right, but that's about all the movement I have.
4) It's almost as though the track becomes corrupt. The lanes for the track don't redraw properly, and the track is pretty much unusable. I can't put anything into it, and I can't take anything out. All I can do is delete the track and start again.
Complicating issues is that this doesn't always happen, but instead is one of those "vast majority of the time" issues. I can't see any rhyme or reason for why it works or doesn't. I seem to do the exact same thing, but occasionally get different results. It doesn't matter what type of file I'm using (WAV, AIFF, etc), and this only happens with independent audio clips.
Once again, I don't have track keyframing turned on when this happens. Believe me, I wish that was it.
I have already filed a couple of bug reports about this over the last month or so, but haven't heard anything yet. I was wondering if anyone else was having the same issue, and if so, whether they had any workarounds.
Mandatory system info:
Windows 7 Professional SP1 (64-Bit)
Intel i7-3820
32GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 980 (350.12)
Premiere Pro CC 2014.2

Update:
I was just looking to post a screenshot of the timeline when I discovered something interesting. As soon as I use the vertical scroll bar to the right of the sequence, the tracks start to work again. Close off the waveform and the clip goes haywire. Move the scroll bar a tiny bit (or a lot), and suddenly the clip starts working.
Pretty bizarre.
The good news is that for the time being that could be a workaround, though it would be great for this to not happen at all.

Premiere CS4 Audio Effects Only Work On Latter Half Of Each Audio Clip

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Can't get my audio clip to work in Keynote except in edit mode. I've followed Help instructions to the letter. Any suggestions?

Can't get my audio clip to work in Keynote except in edit mode. I've followed Help instructions to the letter. Any suggestions?

Hi Gary - thanks so much for your help. I'd already done that, but finally stumbled across the answer for my situation. I'm new to iMac and this is the first time I used Keynote, so maybe this info will help someone else along the way - I still haven't found this in any of the Keynote documentation or forums I've read.
My slides were all set up with at least one text box in which the text was animated. The sound was the last thing I added to each slide, exactly following the info in Keynote Help re: adding audio. The audio would work when I tested it in Inspector mode, and also if I switched to soundtrack instead. But not if sound was added to each individual slide. Hmmm. After I submitted the question above, I was running through the (auto) slide show one final time to check text, animation, etc. when I noticed that on just one single slide the sound effect came through, but at the very tail end of the slide. Hmm again. Why?
Through trial & error, the answer was in the animation section - not very intuitive re: audio. The steps to correct the issue were: 1) click on the sound icon embedded in each slide, 2) click on the animation tab in Inspector. 3) There's a drop-down menu there that allows you to reposition the audio clip to the #1 spot (if it was added after other "animation"). This allows the sound to begin before the text animation begins on each slide. Before doing this, I guess the sound was in there but the slides were transitioning before it had a chance to play.
Since this is the first time I've used Keynote and it's the most recent version, I'm not sure if this is a new feature to allow users to choose where within a slide to play a sound effect, but I'm guessing that might be why was unable to find any info on how to solve it. Hopefully this will help others who get stumped.
Thanks again for jumping in to help! I really appreciate it.

1,000 menu items - each selection plays unique audio clip with same video

Hi all,
We're familiar with playing different audio tracks based on a menu selection - but we have a large number of clips for this project... so, here's our question:
A viewer of our 30 minute dvd throws it in the player and selects the city they live. We want to have about 1,000 city names they can choose from.
Based on their selection, (eg: Los Angeles) the DVD will play and then at 7 different points during playback, we need the name "Los Angeles" inserted/played along the main audio track. If someone selects Portland, then Portland would be spoken in that spot instead, etc.
In terms of audio files, we have the one main audio that is the same for all menu selections, except for the spots where the city goes, it is just blank.
We have recorded 1,000 unique audio clips of just the city name we want to include . (1 to 2 seconds long)
What's the best way to insert the audio where we need it during playback - or is it even possible? (non-blu ray). There is audio just before and after the point where the city name has to go, so the timing during playback is critical. (no pause or hiccup when inserting.)
We thought about outputting 1,000 unique audio tracks (each 30 minutes long) that include the full audio along with the city, but we seem limited in the number of audio tracks on the Encore timeline (at least based on our limited authoring experience - is there a way to get more clips in encore beyond the # of audio tracks it allows?)
In reading other posts, it seems we can set markers along the main audio track, dump all our city clips on a handful of audio tracks and have them pull in where needed but it seems it will cause the dvd to pause when doing this, and make for an interrupted viewing experience. Is that true?
Any ideas/thoughts are greatly appreciated...
kay

Let's see if someone can tell us how this might be done, but I say the answer is "no."
First, DVDs are made for playing on TVs as programs, not as interactive media. You pick one audio track, and that is all you get. To do what you want (the main audio track with one of a thousand names spoken also), you need a thousand audio tracks.
Even if it were possible, I think the number of menu choices (max 36 buttons on a single 4:3 menu) and the max 1 gig of menu on a disk, and if not those, the max 99 vts per disk (and for Encore which uses 1 vts per timeline, a huge task to figure out how to make all those clips into chapters on timelines) etc.

Why does this applet (with an audio clip) fail to load in a browser?

Hello Java Experts.
I am able to compile and run the applet in an IDE. The problem lies when I attempt to run the applet through a browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). The entire applet fails to load (in the browser) when it includes code pertaining to audio clips, but works fine when it does not contain audio clip related code.
Here is a Short, Self Contained, Compilable, Example that illustrates my problem:
import javax.swing.*; // Required libraries
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class Music extends JApplet // Music class is a subclass of the JApplet class
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}Please try to run this applet in a browser so that you can point me to my mistake(s).
Thanks for the help in advance.

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Here is a Short, Self Contained, Compilable, Example that illustrates my problem:>The 'example' part of it, fails to manifest here. Using that exact code, I was able to see a blue rectangle in both AppletViewer and FF. You might try..
1) Configuring the Java Console to open for applets by default - look in it for error messages.
2) Change the name of the WAV to something that definitely +does not exist+ at the code base. (That would most closely replicate my own testing experience - since there is no WAV available here).

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