Subtitles of the Movie

Alright in this module let's address something that can crop up as you start to further edit your sequence and you move audio around so that it best tells the story and then you start to move your pictures around, well things can get out of synch sometimes, especially as you independently move your audio and your video and it can also happen when you use the slip tool. So let's take a clip, let's go right to the play head in the timeline, how we can do that, that little purple line there, that indicates the play head and you can go right to it. Blam, right there. So there's the play head and we've got a clip here that looks like this. OK so that clip is in synch, the lips are moving and we're hearing the appropriate audio. What happens if we take, I'm going to unlink the clips here, which was selected before. But I'm going to take this clip and I'm going to move it out of synch. So I'm going to move it one second and 19 frames out of synch. Now what does the clip look like or sound like? OK obvisouly it looks like a kung fu movie now which that may be the effect you're going for but it's not certainly a classical filmmaking. So how are we going to fix this? Well maybe we actually want that picture down there and maybe we want to start that interview here and we decide that we don't like the top of this shot or we want to move that, so there's many reasons why we might actually do this on purpose. Now what can we do about it. Well obviously we can grab our audio and yank it down in the timeline to synch things up and the indicator will go away, you can use our keyboard shortcuts to scootch things along as well. You can use the Option key and we start to move things more in synch then they were. Notice the indicator, these little red indictors will change according to whatever I'm doing on the keyboard, so notice that it's 119 out and if I move one of them its saying well I don't know its 117 on one and 119 on the other so I can't make up my mind about how out of synch I am. So, that's certainly one way, there's another cool little trick you can deploy and that is to use the right click on these little red out of synch indicators. So I hold down the control, click and I can either move into synch like that or I undo, let me select both of these real quickly with the command button and this time control click, I'm going to slip this into synch. I thought I had both of them selected here, slip into synch, so now the audio and the video match. Ok. So I've fixed that problem that I have. If I want to lengthen that now I can put the whole thing so that we match up the audio and the picture and there we go. So we're back in synch here and we're back in synch because we slipped the audio to match the picture, so it's a very handy way to put your audio back in synch. Now there's sometimes where you purposely want to make things out of synch and if you do again you're going to get those indicators like that but you can make a selection and modify, go to the modify menu and then mark in synch. And now what you're saying is that, that is in synch with these things right here. So again when we select all of them and I can do that with command clicks or with just a marquee or a lasso modify and I'm going to mark this clip in this synch. Now even though when we see it it's certainly out of synch to Final Cut we've said nope that's in synch. Again other ways or other instances where you might want to do that sure, if you have the audio you want and you're matching it up with something that's going on in picture but you don't necessarily have to have lips moving or we're not seeing anything that would cue us visually that things are out of synch we can certainly do that and not be bugged by the red indicators that there's a problem in the sequence.