Background music for a collage

azehavi

Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline

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Sep 09, 2021 11:02

Hello,
I am trying to edit a collage includes 7 inages, 5 seconds each, witb background music.
After about 3 seconds the background music stops.
The music clip was cutted from about 2 minutes length. It hpppens also in other music clips.
Please see the attached image.
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks


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Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Sep 10, 2021 04:00

Hi
I do not seem to be able to reproduce this. The images 5 secs long are these photo's or video clips? Do they have audio aswell. Maybe you can send us a screen recording of what it is you do?

ynotfish

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

Sep 10, 2021 16:34

Hi azehavi -

I'm with Warry. I can't replicate that either.

Using the 7 sample photos in PDR , set at 6sec duration with 1sec overlap transitions (total duration - 36sec) & one of the background music tracks trimmed from 2:23 to 0:36, the music played as expected with no dropouts.

Screenshot of project attached.

If the music is in the timeline on its own, does it play correctly? Warry's right. More information is needed about what's in your timeline.

Cheers - Tony


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azehavi

Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline

Sep 11, 2021 05:36

Hi,
I am sending a screen recording of my small collage.
As you can see, after 4 seconds the audio become mute. It happens also in other audio clips.
By the way, the sample of Tony is not a collage, just a slideshow, which of course doesn't have any problem.
Hope that I am more clear now.
Thanks

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Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Sep 11, 2021 06:58

Yes I see what you mean Azehavi,
But I still cannot reproduce it. See my attempt attached. Is that also how you craft your collages?
Anything exceptional in the images or the sound clip you use? Anything addition you can share about the windows version, the PD version and drivers you use? (Stuff that would become apparent in de DXDiag file too).

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JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Sep 11, 2021 08:22

azehavi, simply "Produce" your timeline and try playing the produced video, it should playback fine. To me this looks like simple timeline playback issues on this system that's occurring when the timeline gets a little more complex, basically the 2x2 window with video.

Jeff

azehavi

Member Joined: Oct 18, 2020 04:41 Messages: 81 Offline

Sep 11, 2021 09:22

Thank you very much Jeff,
After producing it really works fine.

Warry, try to trim the audio file to the length of the video and see what happens (before producing)

Thanks again all of you.

Warry

Senior Contributor Location: The Netherlands Joined: Oct 13, 2014 11:42 Messages: 853 Offline

Sep 12, 2021 06:12

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Warry, try to trim the audio file to the length of the video and see what happens (before producing)
Thanks again all of you.

I did try and everthing works okay for me. But I am happy that your problem is resolved!