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ditto

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May 16, 2012 22:08

The subtitle of this forum is 'share your knowledge', but the position I'm in is 'share your ignorance'. I'm really new to PD9.

Here's the situation: I've recorded an hour of me playing and singing an album's worth of songs to both video and audio. Edits and cuts are required to pare it down to about a 40-minute performance.

Here's what I want: at some point, I'm going to overdub various other instrument parts to the audio I've recorded - bass, keyboard, backing vocals - lots of stuff - it'll take me another couple months to finish it.

Here's my question: Should I finish the audio portion before I start getting into cuts and edits in PD? Or can I start to get the video segments in the order I want them now, and later synch up the overdubbed audio parts with the edited video?

ynotfish

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May 16, 2012 22:23

Hi ditto -

Don't worry - we each have our own special fields of ignorance.

I think you could go about it successfully either way, but I'd (personally) build the audio first. I guess you'd be doing that in a third party audio editor.

Sounds like a really interesting project!

Cheers - Tony
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ditto

Newbie Joined: Jun 21, 2011 00:46 Messages: 15 Offline

May 16, 2012 22:52

Why would you start with audio and get it finished first?

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

May 16, 2012 23:12

I'm not suggesting that's the way to do it. I'd just prefer to have the audio completely mixed first because that's the "guts" of it.

With the audio in place, & the track locked, then you can start syncing your video clps. From my perspective, with the audio set there's a lot you can do with the visuals to make it work well.

Of course, you'd need to be careful not to mess with the tempo - that'll create sync issues.

Cheers - Tony
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ditto

Newbie Joined: Jun 21, 2011 00:46 Messages: 15 Offline

May 16, 2012 23:30

Okay, since I know nothing, one way seems as good as the next, so I'll try the approach you suggest. And in the time it takes to get the music tracks done, I can read some of the pdf for PD.