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2 Choose Slip Others into Sync from the shortcut menu.
After syncing
Establishing Different Sync Relationships Between Linked Clip
Items
There are many reasons you might deliberately edit the video and audio items of a clip
to be out of sync with one another:
• Aligning the visuals of an actor reacting to a voice
• Reediting an actor’s audio from one take to match the visuals of a different take
• Changing the sync of ambient sound behind an image without critical audiovisual sync
points (such as dialogue)
• Performing sophisticated audio edits to sweeten an actor’s dialogue
Marking a Clip as In Sync
If you’ve moved a selected clip item out of sync deliberately and you want to permanently
change that item’s sync relationship to its corresponding linked audio or video items in
the sequence, you can use the Mark in Sync command. Final Cut Pro marks the items’
current relationship in your sequence as being in sync.
If you move one of these items out of sync again, the out-of-sync indicator shows the
number of frames to resync to the new sync point.
Note: Using Mark in Sync does not affect the original master clip in the Browser, nor does
it affect your media file on disk. It only affects the selected clip items in the Timeline.
602 Chapter 40 Linking and Editing Video and Audio in Sync