The locked Audio track is gray, and the lock at the far right shines a bit red.Īt this point, you can freely cut the video above the locked Audio track, and Studio won't snap the remaining video together to fill the gaps. If you attempt to select this audio track thereafter, Studio posts the error message: "Can not select clip when track is locked" (Figure 7.60).įigure 7.60. Studio turns the lock red and dims the Audio track ( Figure 7.60). We'll be cutting out segments of video and replacing them with other scenes shot after this video.Īt the far right of the Timeline, click the Lock the Main Audio Track button ( Figure 7.59).įigure 7.59.
Here's the clip containing the Music track I'm going to use for this music video. To lock the Audio trackĭrag the clip containing the background audio onto the Timeline ( Figure 7.58).įigure 7.58. And because the audio plays continuously, no one will even notice. If you use the audio you captured at a wedding ceremony during the closing processional, for example, and then trim out segments when not much is going on or when no one is on camera, you can shorten the sequence dramatically, yet still retain the highlights. In this sequence, I introduce viewers to the entire spectacle of the event from the acres of trailers and tents to the capacious grandstands with thousands of attendees watching, listening, and dancing using the complete audio from one of the first songs I shot as the background music and video bits I shot later cut and pasted into the composite clip.Īnother useful application of the insert edit is to seamlessly shorten the duration of some aspect of an event, such as the opening and closing processionals at a wedding, graduation, or other ceremony.
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You might shoot an entire song, for instance, so that you can create a music video composed of the original video shot with the song, plus video scenes pasted in from earlier or later shots.Ī good example of such a project is a music video I pieced together from footage from the aforementioned Fiddler's Convention, which I touched on in "Applying Basic Shot Composition" in Chapter 1. It's a useful technique in a variety of circumstances. An insert edit is a technique that lets you insert just the video portion of one clip into another larger clip, while using the background audio from the larger clip.