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Media Link
Menu: Options
Media Link is one of the most powerful features of MAGIX music editor 2
. With this option, you have the opportunity to synchronize media files such as MIDI files or AVI files.
These can be complete MIDI songs or sequences (*.MID files), Video clips (*.AVI files) or other files
for which a MCI driver is installed in Windows.
Synchronizing of MAGIX music editor 2 projects with
Video-for-Windows movies (AVI)
With this capability, MAGIX music editor 2 is an excellent tool for film music arrangements. Film and
video clips are recorded as AVI files. A MAGIX music editor 2
virtual project can then be synchronized with it. The music, original sound, voice tracks, effects and much
more can be adjusted on the time line and played with the AVI video simultaneously. As the final step,
the audio signal can be recorded back to the videotapes original audio tracks or mixed for broadcasting.
File Name
Here you can specify the file name and directory where the media file is located. By clicking on the '?'
button you will receive a file requester dialog that allows you not only to look for the location on your
hard disk(s), but also let's you specify which media file type you are looking for. Once you have found
the media file, simply click on OK and MAGIX music editor 2
will make the link.
Offset
The Offset allows you to specify a different start time for the media file. The default is a zero position,
which means that the media file would be started at exactly 0 position, which is the beginning of the file. If
the offset is different than the 0 position the playback of the media file starts at the position you entered.
Here is an example:
Let's assume that we are working on the audio for an AVI file and the audio section does not appear until
15 minutes into the AVI file. It would be unnecessary to create 15 minutes of empty space at the
beginning of the VIP in order to line up the AVI frames and the audio. Instead we can specify an offset of
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