Adding a commentary track

[David White]

I have been producing an A/V and successfully adding commentaries to it.

I needed to change one of the earlier images so I remove the existing one and successfully replaced it. However when I removed it, it also removed the associated commentary.

This did not surprise or worry me as I had the clip saved.

I therefore copied it into the project and it duly appeared in the Audio list.

I was a bit surprised because although I had all the clips numbered in sequence, and this was number three out of more than 20,  it put it at the bottom of the Audio list.

I tried to drag it up between slide 2 and 4 but it immediately returned to the bottom of the audio file list. I tried to lock it to slide 3 and it indicated that I had done so. However I still couldn't move it down to the commentary track.

I kept trying to drag the clip below slide 3 but although I could pick it up and move it down it just appended itself to the Music file list which is below the Audio list.

I can still move other audio clips to different places on the audio file list but I now can't drag and drop any of the Audio files down to the commentary track under any  of the slides.

Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

[David White]

I've worked out what has happened. When I reattached the commentary clip it must have got in a long way from the slide it was intended to attach to.

I eventually found it and then dragged it back where I wanted it and now it is firmly back where it should be!

I also had a memory lapse and was trying to drag it directly from the Audio file list - seems to be a logical way of moving them, is there any reason why it can't work that way?

[Igor]

David,

Sorry for my late response. Glad that you found the solution.

31 minutes ago, David White said:

I also had a memory lapse and was trying to drag it directly from the Audio file list - seems to be a logical way of moving them, is there any reason why it can't work that way?

Please tell in more details. Do I understand rightly that you clicked on an audio file in the File list (in the main window) and dragged it into the timeline view?

[David White]

Hi Igor,

What I did was this:

I started on the Timeline screen.

I then selected  Project Options

Then Audio on the drop down menu.

I then tried to select the audio file and drag it down to the Commentary Track. ie the same as I would drag an image down to the Slides track from the File name panel on the Slides screen.

The reason why I was fooled for so long was that you can, of course, actually pick the Audio files up and move them but not out of the Project Options screen - only down to another (in my case Music track) - or else it jumps straight back to its original position.

I thought it would be very convenient if it were possible to this.

Thanks David