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TeeMan1 [Avatar]
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I've searched the forum but cannot find a topic/answer to this questions. I'm using PowerDirector 15.

I'm editing a two camera shoot in Multi Camera Designer. I have selected the audio source as Cam 2 as it has the longer of the two tracks with audio. The video clips are on track 1 and track 2 and at some points during the recording process, both cameras were recording. At other times, only one camera was recording.

After running Multi Cam Designer's Audio Analysis, all of the clips lined up as to when the respective camera was recording. However, the situation I have is track 1 might have say 2 minutes of recorded video and then the operator may have paused the recording. Ditto that for Camera 2 at a different time. They are occasions when they do overlap/have synced up which gives me the ability to switch from cam 1 to cam 2 in a normal multi cam operation.

However, here's the problem. When cam 2 drops out, I switch to cam 1 when it becomes available. But there is now no way either automatically or manually to access the audio on cam 1 as I have selected cam 2 to be the "Audio Source". I work with Premiere Pro CS6 and its multi cam editor has a setting for "Audio Follows Video" for just the type of scenarios I have described. Does PowerDirector 15 have a setting that will allow the audio to follow the video?

I have attached a screenshot to illustrate my delima


Thanks,

TeeMan1
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TeeMan
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Hi TeeMan1,

Currently PowerDirector doesn't have the audio setting that you want, but I think it is a great and interesting suggestion.

I see you already added it to the suggestions list, so I am sure RD will discuss implementing it.

Keep suggestions like that coming.

In the meantime, is there any way you can first export the audio from both clips and then produce one long audio file you can use as the reference?

David

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TeeMan1 [Avatar]
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Quote Hi TeeMan1,

Currently PowerDirector doesn't have the audio setting that you want, but I think it is a great and interesting suggestion.

I see you already added it to the suggestions list, so I am sure RD will discuss implementing it.

Keep suggestions like that coming.

In the meantime, is there any way you can first export the audio from both clips and then produce one long audio file you can use as the reference?

David




David:

Thanks for your feedback. Your suggestion may be a temporary workaround I had not thought of. I also thought of going ahead and doing my multicamera edits for those sections of the two cameras that do overlap and then manually dropping those sections that don't directly into the timeline and using keyframes to keep things in the proper time sequence.

I also remember reading on one of the blogs that supposedly PD 13 forward offered the ability to do multi-edits from within the timeline. I don't see how that could be possible. but it was mentioned.

Thanks again,

TeeMan1 TeeMan
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Hi,

Maybe what you read was the Sync By Audio feature? If you select more than one clip in the timeline, the button becomes available. See attached.

David
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