Fixing clip positions on timeline

danmcb

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Jun 27, 2019 02:45

Hello,

I am using PD for making music videos. The audio track is an audio file which has already been mixed on a DAW and corresponds to a number of video clips. Sometimes there can be 4 or 5 seperate clips for just one instrument (because that instrument in the mix comes from 4 or 5 separate recording takes).

Once the clips have been placed in their own video tracks and sync'd to the audio, I want to lock them in place so that they cannot be moved accidentally. (Actually best would be to lock them relative to the audio, but as the audio usually will not move, this is not a big deal.)

I see ways to lock individual tracka (which stops you doing anything to them) but there doesn't seem to be any way to do what I want?

StevenG

Contributor Joined: Jan 14, 2014 14:04 Messages: 513 Offline

Jun 27, 2019 07:56

You could select all of the clips on your timeline, right-click and select Group Objects.

But a better solution might be to save your music mix as its own project. Then start a new project to create your video portion and, in that project's Media Room, select your music mix project file, which you'll be able to load as if it were a single media clip.

danmcb

Newbie Joined: May 24, 2019 11:10 Messages: 7 Offline

Jun 27, 2019 08:08

Quote You could select all of the clips on your timeline, right-click and select Group Objects.

But a better solution might be to save your music mix as its own project. Then start a new project to create your video portion and, in that project's Media Room, select your music mix project file, which you'll be able to load as if it were a single media clip.

Hi - thanks for the response.

Music mix is done in a different app, it is imported as a stereo wav file, already mixed and mastered.
So the issue is that the various video clips (their audio is not used, except as an aid for syncing) need to be fixed relative to the stereo .wav file.

Didn't know about grouping though - useful feature, I'll probably use it for other stuff.

AVPlayVideo

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Jun 29, 2019 11:10

Quote

Hi - thanks for the response.

Music mix is done in a different app, it is imported as a stereo wav file, already mixed and mastered.
So the issue is that the various video clips (their audio is not used, except as an aid for syncing) need to be fixed relative to the stereo .wav file.

Didn't know about grouping though - useful feature, I'll probably use it for other stuff.

If I understand, you have 3 or 4 audios, you'll mix in 1 and would like to lock them, an option StevenG showed.
Another tip Produce the mixed audio for each clip.
If your PD has AudioDirector, it may be more interesting to do this in the MIX room