Linked video and audio
A video's sound on its own audio track, linked to its picture: they move, trim, cut and delete together; Alt edits one side for J and L cuts.
A video clip's sound can live on an audio track as a clip of its own, linked to its picture. The pair moves, trims, cuts and deletes together, so it stays in sync. Hold Alt to edit one side alone: the sound starting before the picture is a J cut, running on after it an L cut.
Description
The AI trailer in Edit with the bin open. Import video or stills brings in a clip with sound: its picture lands on V2 at the playhead and its sound on A2, both showing a chain. Dragging the picture moves its sound with it. With Alt held, the sound alone is dragged later, so it runs on past its picture (an L cut), and a red badge shows how many frames the pair is out of sync. Right-click, Move into sync puts it back.
- Import a video with sound into the bin (Import video or stills). Its picture lands on V2 at the playhead and its sound on a free audio track, linked: a chain shows on both.
- Drag either one: the other follows.
- Hold Alt and drag the sound's edge, or the sound itself: only it changes. A red badge on the pair shows how many frames the sound is off its picture.
- Right-click → Move into sync slides it back.
Unlink and link
- Unlink audio (right-click a scene or video clip) puts its own sound on an audio track, linked to it, and mutes the sound the clip carries inside, so nothing plays twice. Use it on a scene from your page whose video has sound.
- Link audio back removes those sound clips and lets the clip play its own sound again.
- ⌘L (Link / unlink clips) links the picked clips so they edit together, or unlinks a linked pair.
- Clicking a linked clip picks its partner too; Alt-click picks one side.
What follows the link
| Edit | Linked partner |
|---|---|
| Move (drag, or a ripple on V1 moving the scenes after an edit) | Moves by the same amount |
| Trim an edge, slip | Its edge or source moves by the same amount |
| Cut (⌘B, the razor) | Is cut at the same place; each half stays linked to its half |
| Delete, ripple delete | Is deleted too |
| Anything with Alt held | Stays as it is |
Every linked edit is one undo step. From the agent, CLI, REST and plugins it is sequence.edit with linked: false to
edit one side, and the detachSound, attachSound, link and sync edits: see
Agent, CLI, API and plugins.