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[smithgg]

Hello,

I just purchased EMC 8 and, while I've had to spent more time than I think I should to learn basic things, I am struggling through and am happy with the results so far.

I started by putting together a Cinemagic project and then editing it to see how things work.  Now, I have a nice little movie but I want to make the native audio of some of the movie clips audible over the background music, or even stop the music while the native audio plays and fade back into it when it's done.  The problem is anything to do with editing the native audio anywhere that I have looked is greyed out (disabled).  Is there a general protection set somewhere or an attribute set in the Cinemagic process that can be reversed to get the native audio available for editing again?  I've tried everything I can think of, but I've learned that there are solutions in this program that are far from intuitive!  (Thanks for the info to drag autodetected scenes into Videowave, I tried everything and never would've ever guessed that would be the only way!)  Anyway, can anyone help, or do I have to recreate the project from scratch?  I did a test doing that and the native audio options are easily available.  It just seems to be something within Cinemagic.

Thanks!

[sknis]

smithgg, on Sep 22 2006, 05:54 PM, said:

Hello,

I just purchased EMC 8 and, while I've had to spent more time than I think I should to learn basic things, I am struggling through and am happy with the results so far.

I started by putting together a Cinemagic project and then editing it to see how things work. Now, I have a nice little movie but I want to make the native audio of some of the movie clips audible over the background music, or even stop the music while the native audio plays and fade back into it when it's done. The problem is anything to do with editing the native audio anywhere that I have looked is greyed out (disabled). Is there a general protection set somewhere or an attribute set in the Cinemagic process that can be reversed to get the native audio available for editing again? I've tried everything I can think of, but I've learned that there are solutions in this program that are far from intuitive! (Thanks for the info to drag autodetected scenes into Videowave, I tried everything and never would've ever guessed that would be the only way!) Anyway, can anyone help, or do I have to recreate the project from scratch? I did a test doing that and the native audio options are easily available. It just seems to be something within Cinemagic.
Thanks!

CineMagic is designed not to use native audio since the show will be made up of a lot of short clips and the sound would be incoherent.  Use VideoWave if you want to create a project with native video, native sound, added transitions, added music, added text, added overlays etc.  I don't have V8 loaded on this machine but you should be able to edit that production in VideoWave and add in the sections where you want the native sound. and take out the same sections with the music.  You would have to redo the music altogether so it is a toss up about starting from scratch and editing the CineMagic production.

[smithgg]

sknis, on Sep 26 2006, 06:54 AM, said:

CineMagic is designed not to use native audio since the show will be made up of a lot of short clips and the sound would be incoherent.  Use VideoWave if you want to create a project with native video, native sound, added transitions, added music, added text, added overlays etc.  I don't have V8 loaded on this machine but you should be able to edit that production in VideoWave and add in the sections where you want the native sound. and take out the same sections with the music.  You would have to redo the music altogether so it is a toss up about starting from scratch and editing the CineMagic production.

Hi,

Thanks for your response.  I had tried in vain to edit the Cinemagic project in Videowave.  But, as I said, couldn't get the native audio "re-enabled" for lack of better words.  I ended up having to write down all my edits and re-create in Videowave.  It came out great, finally.  Wish the audio couldv'e been turned back on so I didn't have to do that.  But, at least I learned a lot by using Cinemagic as a start.

Thanks again for you response!