Hi folks. I am editing two camera angles of the same action. I used
"sync by audio" to get the clips lined up perfectly. I used the "trim"
function to select the bits of one camera andlge that I wanted to show
over the other camera angle, but when I pressed the "ok" button, it
turned out that all the clips were moved together to the start of where
the clip originally started, no longer in sync with the other camera
angle. I tried using "sync by audio" again to get all the clips back
where they should be, but it wound up putting them in sequence one after
the other on different tracks. I tried selecting individual clips from
the trimmed clip, but got the same result.

If you have an answer fo this, you can stop reading here. Otherwise, here are more details...

I would like to be able to do the editing on the timeline, but for some
reason hi-def video does not run smoothly in the timeline. After a
couple of seconds the video freezes, the timeline cursor jumps about 15
seconds ahead, and the audio keeps runing, so editing on the timeline
would be a matter of taking my best guess of where the cut should be,
then using the frame-by-frame movement to find the clip spot. That's why
I use the trim function.

Although the trim function is not
perfect either. The video runs in slow motion, but the audio in
real-time, along with the movment of the timeline cursor. When I hit
"pause" the frame cathces up to where it should be. My workaround for
that is to watch the clip in a Windows Media Viewer, find the point in
the video at which I want to make the edit, and match the time in the
"trim" function of Powerdirector (using the frame-by-frame function for
precision).

That's an awful lot of workarounds for what should be a
basic function of a video editor. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot I
like about this editor, but this is making the work take longer than is
should, really. Any advice would be appreciated.

But the first thing I would like to know, and don;t have a simple workaround for, is

a) how to trim clips using the trim function in a way that keps the clips that are left after trimming in the same place or

b) how to use the "sync by audio" function when one clip is a lot longer than the other.

...or anything else that would render these issues moot.

Thanks in advance. Zorikh