{"id":130,"date":"2007-09-02T21:53:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T03:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/video-editing-timeline-considered-harmful\/"},"modified":"2007-09-02T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T03:53:32","slug":"video-editing-timeline-considered-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/video-editing-timeline-considered-harmful\/","title":{"rendered":"Video editing timeline considered harmful?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I previously admitted<\/a>\u00a0my\u00a0limited beginner\u00a0facility\u00a0in video editing. Along with the suitcase<\/a> for audio recording, I took our new video camera<\/a>\u00a0along to Dallas on Thursday, set it up, pointed it in the right direction and focused on the audio.<\/p>\n

The all but ignored camera produced surprisingly good video but mediocre audio. The obvious step was to replace the audio with the mixed multi-track recording.<\/p>\n

Except, what about synchronization of the audio and video?\u00a0SMPTE time code<\/a>\u00a0would be prohibitively expensive in a product such as the MPVR+<\/a>\u00a0and likely unrealistic in the iO|14. (Time code\u00a0may be hidden in the iO|14 MIDI features, but that probably is wishful thinking.)<\/p>\n

Forging ahead with Windows Movie Maker, I first imported the mixed multi-track audio, establishing the timeline and synchronization reference. Then I nudged the video clips into the timeline so that the audio from the separate sources (multi-track and video) was almost in sync. Without the reference timeline and the clip timings, getting things even as close as this<\/a> would have been beyond my capabilities.<\/p>\n

Though I used Windows Movie Maker, I think I know how I could have done the same things with the iMovie I have. But iMovie \u201808 eschews timelines. Depending on the reviewer, iMovie \u201808 is a major step forward or backward. Based on the detailed analysis in iLife ’08\u2014Part 2: iMovie\u2014Flawed Genius<\/a>, both perceptions seem valid.<\/p>\n

For now, it doesn’t matter to me, but I’m curious how I would have fudged the audio and video together in the iMovie\u00a0\u201808 paradigm.<\/p>\n

I previously admitted\u00a0my\u00a0limited beginner\u00a0facility\u00a0in video editing. Along with the suitcase for audio recording, I took our new video camera\u00a0along to Dallas on Thursday, set it up, pointed it in the right direction and focused on the audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operating-systems","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8c9uP-26","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}