Hi Guys,
How do I mute the audio on an imported video track? There seem to be no control options showing and the track doesn’t appear in the mixer window. Am I missing something?
Greg
Hi Guys,
How do I mute the audio on an imported video track? There seem to be no control options showing and the track doesn’t appear in the mixer window. Am I missing something?
Greg
On my system (Windows), when I import video with audio, the audio gets it’s own track which behaves and handles like any other audio track.
Maybe I have some bug. There’s no extra track appearing for me but I can hear the audio, so it’s there.
Just looking at the image - is that “Rhythm Guitar” event actually a guitar? It says “BBC planets” and looking at the video image thumbnails I’m getting the feeling it’s maybe the video audio that ended up on the wrong track by mistake?
I have the same experience as Googly_Smythe with imported video’s audio ending up on a dedicated audio track. So I’ve never seen what you see.
@MattiasNYC Damn, you must be really good at Find Waldo I had a close look and did not notice - well done, Sir!
Edit:
Video and audio track are kept separate. The audio track is only available in Cubase if extracted from the video file. extracted automatically when importing a video file.
Ok. so how do i import the audio and video separately? I assumed it would split it into separate parts.
For me it is automatic. I don’t need to do anything to get a video track separate from an audio track.
Did you perhaps rearrange tracks after import? I think there might be cases where imported audio automatically is laid on tracks that are highlighted, or on the “next” available audio track. If that was the case then simply make sure that you either have no tracks selected when you import video or that you have that last track selected. There’s also one or two preferences for video import as far as audio is concerned so maybe check those as well.
You are right, I can confirm that rather strange behaviour (test run just now).
You can select ANY track type in the project window (ruler, MIDI, audio whatsoever) - as long as there is an AUDIO track right below the selected track the extracted audio material will be laid on this audio track. If the track below the selected track is not an audio track an additional audio track will be automatically created.
Was it always like that?? Never happened here. Or maybe it did and I simply corrected it and got on with work. I don’t know. Very strange!
Been like that for a while I think, including earlier versions.
Thanks for clearing that up. I have imported so many video files ever since the dreadful Quick Time days and yet I can’t remember. Should I be worried…
Worried about your memory or about importing video?
Unsupported audio codec?
What kind of video file?
Haha, nah the first. I came to the conclusion that predementia is highly unlikely and that I just don’t notice these flaws anymore. I just do what needs to be done and forget about it. If I was brooding over every little flaw in Cubase, not good practice at work. That part of my personality can run free in this forum
Cheers for asking - all good!
Hi Everyone and thanks for your input.
I ended up just reimporting the video but made sure there was an audio track after the video track and ths did the job.