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Autosyncing Clips
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6. Select Sync Point Editing (Overwrites) in the Edit tab of the Composer Settings dialog
box or select Special > Sync Point Editing.
The orange mark on the Overwrite button signals Sync Point editing is active.
7. Select the source and record tracks for this edit, then click the Overwrite button.
The system completes the sync point edit.
Autosyncing Clips
When you capture footage that includes both audio and video, your Avid editing application
automatically establishes sync when it creates clips in the bin. Autosyncing applies to audio
and video clips that you capture separately, usually from two separate sources. Autosyncing
creates a new subclip that displays sync breaks in the Timeline as though the audio and
video were captured simultaneously.
Example of sync break information in the Timeline
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For more information on tracking sync breaks, see “Fixing Sync Breaks” on page 595.
Understanding Autosyncing
Autosyncing is often used for projects in which picture and sound were captured separately.
These clips are often synced based on common film timecode, sound timecode, or auxiliary
timecode.
You can also autosync
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any audio and video clips based on a user-defined In point or Out
point relationship that you establish with marks. For example, you can use the slate as a
common visual and audio reference for autosyncing the clips.
Use the following guidelines when autosyncing:
• You can autosync audio clips with video clips only. To link two or more video clips or
audio clips, use the Grouping option described in “Understanding Grouping and
Multigrouping Clips” on page 1201.
• You can create only one autosynced subclip at a time. You cannot autosync numerous
pairs of audio and video clips simultaneously.