Link or unlink video and audio, Edit tracks of linked clips individually, Create split edits – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Editing Audio
Last updated 11/6/2011
Note: You can link video only to audio—you cannot link a video clip to another video clip. You can link a video clip to
multiple audio clips, or multiple audio clips together.
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Link or unlink video and audio
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Do any of the following:
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To link video and audio, Shift-click a video and audio clip to select them both, and then choose Clip > Link.
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To unlink video and audio, select a linked clip and choose Clip > Unlink.
Though the audio and video are unlinked, they are both still selected. Reselect either clip to use it separately.
Edit tracks of linked clips individually
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Alt-click/Option-click either part of a linked clip, and then use any editing tool. When you are finished editing the
clip, you can reselect (click) the clip to edit it as a linked clip again.
Automatically synchronize clips that were moved out of sync
1
Right-click/Control-click the number that appears at the In point in a Timeline panel of the out-of-sync video or
audio clip. (The number indicates the amount of time the clip is out of sync with its accompanying video or audio
clip.)
2
Choose one of the following options:
Move Into Sync
Shifts the selected video or audio part of the clip in time to restore sync. Move Into Sync moves the
clip without regard to adjacent clips and overwrites any clips to regain sync.
Slip Into Sync
Performs a slip edit to restore sync without moving the clip’s position in time.
If you want to synchronize multiple clips rather than restore audio and video sync, use the Clip
> Synchronize
command. (See “
Create split edits
Ordinarily, you set one In point and one Out point for a source clip. Even if it’s a linked clip (a clip containing video
and audio tracks), In and Out points apply to both tracks of the clip. Set in a sequence, the audio and video of the
standard clip appear at the same time. Sometimes you want to set the video and audio In or Out points independently,
however, in order to create split edits (also known as L-cuts and J-cuts). When placed in a sequence, a clip trimmed for
a split edit will have its audio appear before its video, or its video before its audio.
Although it’s common to create split edits after clips are assembled into a rough cut, it’s possible to trim clips for split
edits in the Source Monitor before adding them to the sequence.
A. Clip trimmed for J-cut B. Clip trimmed for L-cut
A
B