No Gretsch content, I'm afraid... :(

Until now I've done all my recording - audio and visual - through a tiny, very old, and cheap Sony digicam. Thus any audio you hear has been captured on as low-tech a mic as can be. Hearing the beautiful sound that others get on their YouTube videos I thought I'd try something different. So here I've recorded the audio onto a Tascam DP004 - only using its built-in mics, but at leasts it's higher quality than the digicam. Wouldn't mind getting a decent condenser mic to take this idea to the next stage...but one step at a time, eh?

Anyway, in Windows Movie Maker I import the video and the audio and manually synch them up (although YouTube itself has a way of unsynching things on seemingly random plays) but what I can't find a way to do is to trim the video and audio together in WMM. Once synched, using a handclap as my reference point, I want to be able to trim everything, but... I can't. Does that question make sense?? Basically, the moment I trim the visuals the audio stays as is and I'm out of synch angain.

So I've had to save it all as a movie, then load that back into WMM and trim it and re-save - but I suspect I'm losing some quality. I also suspect I'm not explaining this very well!

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Any advice gratefully received!

Kind regards,
Derek

If we are talking Windows Live Movie Maker as supplied with Windows 7, then I think you're right Derek. There doesn't seem any way to edit the video and the imported audio together.

I seem to recall the earlier version of Windows Movie Maker that came with Vista and XD, you just needed to highlight both the video and audio and it cut both at the same point.

So I've had to save it all as a movie, then load that back into WMM and trim it and re-save - but I suspect I'm losing some quality. I also suspect I'm not explaining this very well!

You say you suspect you're losing some quality.
Have you done a side by side test by saving the original and then the edited version to check for any loss?

Very frustraiting!

i've had a lot of similar troubles with windows movie maker. when i had the vista version, it was very easy. the version for windows seven feels simplified to the point of limitation. small things, like not being able to trim pictures, or split the audio and video together.

Had another bash at using the DP004 to record the acoustic. Not quite as happy with sound as the first video (above) but it's still way better than the Digicam mics:

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Man, that's some fancy pickin' :)

I messed with Moviemaker a couple weeks ago. It seems primitive and frustrating. I think I'll try something else next go around.

I think you did a great job. Your playing was great and I think you synced everything up well.

You might try one of these.
http://www.womble.com/products/index.html
http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tme3.html

Fingerpicking is a new obstacle for me to tackle, and I have quickly learned how much talent it takes to do it well. I'm VERY jealous of your skills delboy! Amazing!

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