Blanking video

Is there a simple way to blank a video portion of a clip while still hearing
the audio? I need to capture the sound at the beginning of the clip without
displayng the video.

Paul Chapin
Curricular Computing Specialist
Amherst College

PapaJohn
Mon Sep 29 13:08:48 CDT 2003

Hi Paul,

Put the clip into the audio/music track instead of the video track. The put
a plain black still picture - or whatever you want - in the video track. The
audio will play over it.

PapaJohn

"Paul Chapin" <pdchapin@amherst.edu> wrote in message
news:3f787014@amhnt2.amherst.edu...
> Is there a simple way to blank a video portion of a clip while still
hearing
> the audio? I need to capture the sound at the beginning of the clip
without
> displayng the video.
>
> Paul Chapin
> Curricular Computing Specialist
> Amherst College
>
>

Paul
Tue Sep 30 16:03:03 CDT 2003

The problem is I want to blank only the first couple of seconds of the
video. The best I've been able to do is to first drag the video to the
audio track. Then put another copy of clip in the video track and mute it's
audio. Next split the clip at the point I want the video to begin.
Determine the length of the first part and replace that video with a blank.
It works but it's ugly and probably beyond a good deal of my users.

Paul

"PapaJohn (MVP)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote in message
news:vngt9thbis9v63@corp.supernews.com...
> Hi Paul,
>
> Put the clip into the audio/music track instead of the video track. The
put
> a plain black still picture - or whatever you want - in the video track.
The
> audio will play over it.
>
> PapaJohn
>
> "Paul Chapin" <pdchapin@amherst.edu> wrote in message
> news:3f787014@amhnt2.amherst.edu...
> > Is there a simple way to blank a video portion of a clip while still
> hearing
> > the audio? I need to capture the sound at the beginning of the clip
> without
> > displayng the video.
> >
> > Paul Chapin
> > Curricular Computing Specialist
> > Amherst College
> >
> >
>
>

PapaJohn
Tue Sep 30 17:38:48 CDT 2003

Paul,

Yes, MM2 doesn't include audio controls like the rubber band effects of
Premiere. The only comments I have on your method would be to leave the copy
of the clip on the video track unmuted until the end. By having both tracks
unmuted, zooming into the timeline as far as you can go, and using the
graphics of the audio tracks to do your alignment - with the nudge feature
you can achieve exact alignment pretty easy. Mute the clip only when you're
finished.

PapaJohn

"Paul Chapin" <pdchapin@amherst.edu> wrote in message
news:3f79ef8d$1@amhnt2.amherst.edu...
> The problem is I want to blank only the first couple of seconds of the
> video. The best I've been able to do is to first drag the video to the
> audio track. Then put another copy of clip in the video track and mute
it's
> audio. Next split the clip at the point I want the video to begin.
> Determine the length of the first part and replace that video with a
blank.
> It works but it's ugly and probably beyond a good deal of my users.
>
> Paul