I’m still a fairly new kdenlive user, so my apologies if this is just a rookie mistake.
I’m editing a podcast with a 3-camera shoot, with audio coming from a RODECaster four-channel mixer. I’m using the mixer audio as the reference audio and snapping the three videos to that track, muting the audio on the other two cameras.
During the taping, though, one of the hosts was sitting too far away from the mic and it didn’t pick up his questions. However, the audio on the three video content cameras picked up audio from these moments.
Is it possible to clip out a piece of audio from one of the secondary (muted) audio tracks and stitch it into the exact same spot in the root audio clip so we can hear his questions? Or is that something I’d have to do in a dedicated audio editor like Audacity?
What actual problem are you having with trying to do this?
If you have audio ‘bound’ to a video clip you can ungroup it and move it around the timeline independently of the video, and you can have as many audio tracks as you want, so you can just drop it into any other ‘unmuted’ audio track. Or you could mute the clips you don’t want audio from instead of muting the whole track. Or many other things.
There’s lots of ways to do this, so there’s no Right Answer until you narrow down the problem by telling us what you tried and why that didn’t work exactly how you wanted it to.
Thanks for the reply and request for clarification. The three audio tracks are from the same session, so the two louder (in-room audio capture, not the mixer) audio tracks are tied to the video from their respective videos. Both of those audio tracks are complete muted. When I try to replace the audio in this part of the sequence, I mute the main/reference track, unmute the secondary track I need, and it sounds fine in that small sequence, but of course, as soon as that short section is done, now both audio tracks are playing, much louder and with a slight delay.
What I’m trying to do is cut a piece from one of the two muted tracks and overlay it into my main audio track. If I were to do a shift-R on either side of the section and cut the secondary audio track, then delete the corresponding part of the main recording, can I slide that piece of secondary audio into the same-sized gap in the master audio track?
I’m imagining it like audio tape - just razoring out a section of the safety reel and glue it into a portion of the master reel that was damaged. Sorry if I’m not explaining it well.
You could, but you could also just drop it into empty space in another unmuted audio track without needing all the fiddly cut and replace.
And you can use the keyframed Volume control in both clips to set the mix that each should contribute to what is audible at any given time.
Or you could just not cut the audio you want out at all if it’s already in the correct place, just use the volume keyframes to mute the bits you want silent instead of muting the whole track?
You can have multiple copies of each clip in as many tracks as you need to compose your edit. But it sounds like you just want to be more selective about what audio to mute than using the all-or-nothing big hammer of disabling the track.