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leow

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Hello everyone.

 

I'm new here so please be patient. I am using Roxio 10

 

I am attempting to create a video of an interview of someone. Within the interview I would like to keep the audio going but cut in some other video. I presume that this would be done thru overlays. The problem is I can't figure out how to create a custome overlay.

 

Any ideas.

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grandpabruce Digital Guru

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Hello everyone.

 

I'm new here so please be patient. I am using Roxio 10

 

I am attempting to create a video of an interview of someone. Within the interview I would like to keep the audio going but cut in some other video. I presume that this would be done thru overlays. The problem is I can't figure out how to create a custome overlay.

 

Any ideas.

 

When you say that you would like to keep the audio going, but cut in some other video, are you saying that you want to cut out a piece of the original video, replace it with a piece of another video, and keep all of the original audio?

 

Or, are you saying that you want to keep everything, but put another piece of video overlaying a part of the video, yet you want to be able to see both videos at that point?

 

Either of those can be done, but the approach, to doing it, is different for each.

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When you say that you would like to keep the audio going, but cut in some other video, are you saying that you want to cut out a piece of the original video, replace it with a piece of another video, and keep all of the original audio?

 

Or, are you saying that you want to keep everything, but put another piece of video overlaying a part of the video, yet you want to be able to see both videos at that point?

 

Either of those can be done, but the approach, to doing it, is different for each.

 

 

Yes good point Bruce. Hopefully leow will let us know.

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Bruce,

 

Originally I dragged each clip down to the storyline.

This time I saved each clip so that I could drag the clips into the overlay when needed. Thanks much for your help!

 

Now I am trying to burn it to a dvd. The first version I did looked terrible on my flat screen. When I tried to play it on my kids tv, the dvd player did not recognize the dvd.

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Bruce,

 

Originally I dragged each clip down to the storyline.

This time I saved each clip so that I could drag the clips into the overlay when needed. Thanks much for your help!

 

Now I am trying to burn it to a dvd. The first version I did looked terrible on my flat screen. When I tried to play it on my kids tv, the dvd player did not recognize the dvd.

 

If you did not use any 3-D transitions, in MyDVD, click on Tools, then Options, then click in the circle to the left of Software, under rendering. For most, this gives a better quality video.

 

Also, at the bottom of the screen, make sure the Qality setting is set to (High Quality (HQ). The default is Fit To Disc.

 

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Bruce,

Thanks for the reply. What I am working on is a video of an interview with an artist. During the interview, when he is discussing his methods of reviewing the areas of scenery I would like to fade into or show video clips of the areas he has painted. These video clips are already on my hard drive. I just can't seem to get them into the overlay area.

 

Thanks Jess!

 

And leow, if you just want to add a video overlay that you already have on your hard drive, just add it to one of the overlay tracks. You can then go into the settings panel to resize, etc.

 

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Bruce,

Thanks for the reply. What I am working on is a video of an interview with an artist. During the interview, when he is discussing his methods of reviewing the areas of scenery I would like to fade into or show video clips of the areas he has painted. These video clips are already on my hard drive. I just can't seem to get them into the overlay area.

 

This could get somewhat complicated. If you want to cut out the video, in the interview, while showing video of the areas he has painted, then go back to the video of the interview, you don't need video overlays, per say. You can even keep the original audio, from the interview.

 

If this is what you want, do this:

 

1. In VideoWave, click on View, then click on Media Selector. When it comes up, click on View again, and select Dock Media Selector. You won't have to keep going back and selecting it each time, doing it this way.

 

2. In Media Selector, browse to where your interview video is, highlight it, right click on it, and select, Extract Audio. Save it, as a .wav file, to a folder on your hard drive. I would save it to the same folder where my productions are.

 

3. Now, drag the interview video, down to the first panel in Storyline View. Right click on the video, in the first panel, and select Edit, then Native Audio. You will see a slider named Overall Volume. Slide it all the way to the left, and click OK. This will mute the audio.

 

4. Now, click on the Timeline tab. In Media Selector, browse to where you saved the extracted .wav file in Step 2, and drag it down to the Music track, right below the Video track. Move it left or right to sync it with the interview video. It may be correctly synced right away.

 

5. Now, click on the video, in the video track, and go to the area where you want to split out a piece of that video, and add the video of the areas he has painted. If you want to just split out a small portion, then you have to go to the beginning of where you want to start the split, right click, and select Split. Then go to the end of the portion that you want to split out, and repeat the right click. Highlight the split area, right click, and select Delete.

 

6. Now, click on the Storyline tab again. Go to Media Selector again, browse to the video of the areas he has painted, and drag it down to the top of video in the 2nd frame. This should put the new video, at the point where you split out the interview video.

 

7. Right click on that new video panel, that you just brought in, and mute the Native Audio, of that clip, the same way you did it in Step 3.

 

8. Do a preview, and you should see that you have the audio, from the interview, play through everything that you just did, and the audio from the areas painted, will be muted.

 

Now, it is important that the total time of the interview, and inserted video clips, is the same length of the original interview, so that the narrative, and the video sync up, especially, if you cut back to the original interview, at some point in the video.

 

Play around with it, and if this is what you want, I will tell you how to do the fades, from one video clip, to another.

 

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Bruce,

Thanks for the reply. What I am working on is a video of an interview with an artist. During the interview, when he is discussing his methods of reviewing the areas of scenery I would like to fade into or show video clips of the areas he has painted. These video clips are already on my hard drive. I just can't seem to get them into the overlay area.

 

What do you mean by "I just can't seem to get them into the overlay area"? Do you mean the "overlay area" in Effect Selector or the Overlay Track in the Production Editor timeline?

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