I know I should be ashamed to ask this one, but  here goes... 

 

For the past months Video and Audio from an AVI file have been moving indepent of each other...  What did I do?  How can I change it back?

What did I do?

My guess is that you have been working in yellow mode and made adjustments on your timeline somewhere to the left of the inserted avi file without having sync lock turned on and without having the correct tracks activated.

 How can I change it back 

In red mode, drag the audio to the left or right get the clip synced gain.

One thing to avoid probs like this in the future is to put your media to the timeline with enbedded audio, timeline settings " insert grouped "  and when and if you want to see the audio as separate, just uncheck that setting and go to command " disband clip ( s )  "

My Sync lock is on.   I'm in overwrite mode(red?)...  

 My video is still able to slide without the audio following...       How doI "put your media to the timeline with enbedded audio, timeline settings " insert grouped ' " ? 

A search for " insert grouped "  gave me a hit on page 375 378 412 and 463 in the ref manual , well described I think.

You can also play a little with " autoselect linked items " described on page 439 and 440

THANKS for taking they time to look.   It was the Autoselect linked items.  The button has to be selected before putting clips on the timeline if you want that feature.  It's helpful, but only if you are conscious of how it works.  :)

Nice to be able to help and the search function from inside of Adobe reader is actually very good, I often use that one.

dspboy:

 The button has to be selected before putting clips on the timeline if you want that feature.  It's helpful, but only if you are conscious of how it works.  :)

I´m almost sure that this workflow is very well described in Paul Ekerts manual for Liquid, also his recommendations to start with using enbedded audio.

Even if the audio becomes unlinked, you can select both the audio and video, right click and relink them.

mjolnarn:

dspboy:

 The button has to be selected before putting clips on the timeline if you want that feature.  It's helpful, but only if you are conscious of how it works.  :)

I´m almost sure that this workflow is very well described in Paul Ekerts manual for Liquid, also his recommendations to start with using enbedded audio.

 

That's my Problem with Liquid... It's so well designed and intuitive that I skip reading manuals often. . . :)

LewS:

Even if the audio becomes unlinked, you can select both the audio and video, right click and relink them.

 

That's good to hear.

MAybe you can help me. I am a litte lost and feel this should be real easy to do.

 

I have a two movie clips on time line.  I must have trimmed about 8 secs of the begiining of the first. I can drag the begiining to stretch it and see what I apparently trimmed, but when I let the mouse go it gos backed to the trimmed position.  How do I get it back?

 

Also how do I move these two clips to the right about 10 secs. Seems I should be able to use the hand and drag and drop them. Apparenetly that makes too much sense.  

 

I am to the point of just gpoing and recording the clip again.. a real shame.

 

THANKS, for any help you can give.

 

thanks

jack

Please don't double post. You never have to redigitize. Any changes you make on the timeline are non-destructive to the original clip. I don't really understand your first problem. I answered your second issue in your other post.

I suggest you pick up a copy of Paul Ekert's book on Liquid from Amazon. That should help you with these basics.

"Also how do I move these two clips to the right about 10 secs."

You need to be in Overwrite mode to move things around on the timeline.  It sounds like you are in Film mode.

I imported video clip and dragged it to timeline.  I want it to start 12 seconds in to movie so I can have some music play then fade as my voice from the video comes in.  I semed to think all I had to do was drag the video clip to the 12 sec mark. But it seems that makes too much sense. So what do I do???

Jack

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Put the program in overwrite mode and select the clip and drag it however much you want. If you have clips following it that need to move with it, use the select after playline tool on the timeline toolbar to select the clip you want to move and all clips after it. Again, you need to be in overwrite mode and all the tracks have to be activated in the track header.. If the select after playline tool is not on your toolbar, you can add it using the customize feature. See the Liquid PDF manual for more details.

Jack,

As was mentioned earlier, you really should get a copy of Paul's book.

In the meantime, this is how Liquid works; First, the timeline is in one of two modes, Insert editing and Overwrite editing. If you look between the source and master viewers, you'll see a large downward arrow. This arrow will be either yellow or red. Yellow means you're in Insert mode. Red is for Overwrite mode. When you're in insert mode, everything likes to snap to the left (so if you take a clip and drag it to the right, it'll snap back to the left when you let go). Deleting part of a clip in Insert mode causes clips to the right to snap to the left. Overwrite mode lets you overwrite the timeline at any position. Drag a clip and it'll stay where it's dropped. Clicking on the arrow will toggle the mode.

Second, when you drop clips on the timeline, by default the audio is linked to the video. And depending on how you put the clips on the timeline, you may not even see a separate audio track.

If you don't see a separate audio track, right-click the track in the timeline and choose Disband. You'll now see separate audio and video tracks. If the tracks are linked (and they probably are), then dragging the handle on the video track will also drag the handles on the audio track(s). To manipulate them separately (which is what you want), right-click on the track in the timeline and choose Unlink Items. Now the audio is separate from the video, and you can drag the handles on one without affecting the other.

Hope this helps.