Tracktion waveform and video

[sdantonio93]

Hi.

I'm completely new here so please forgive me if this has been discussed before and please feel free to point me in the direction of previous discussions.

I'm looking to get back into making some instructional videos for my jazz guitar students and also looking to compose some background tracks to videos.

Lets tackle the instructional videos in this post, ideally I would love to:

1. Simultaneously record a video and audio file.
2. I have Wondershare Filmora to record the video part of the file (unless this can be done in Waveform).
3. The audio I can directly record into the Waveform DAW
4. Then I would like to be able to load up the video file in Waveform, synchronize them, mix and master them, and then output them as a single file.

The alternative to doing step 4 in Waveform is to output the final mix and mastered file from waveform as a WAV file, load the WAV and the video into Filmora and trying to synchronize them there.

I'm also very open other suggestions if anyone has done something like this successfully in the past. In fact since there seems to be nothing like this online I think this would make a great youtube instructional video set for someone.

Thanks
Steven

[jabe]

I wish you luck. I've had Waveform/Tracktion since version 1.6 on Windows on several computers and can't get the video to work despite finding and loading multiple codecs.

[talby]

The video feature of Waveform Pro is very basic and can be used to playback video to guide for audio processing. But cutting the video will quickly leave you with synchronization issues occurring between the video and the audio parts, which you do not want to hassle yourself with.

Do all video editing in Video Editor apps like Kdenlive, maybe Blender, Lightworks or DaVinci Resolve, all available for Win/Mac/Linux. All cuts and processing instructions in these advanced apps will be registered in some kind of a job list, to explain it in simple words. This allows to anytime exchange the media material, like the video or audio track(s), for alternative material. When exporting (rendering) the final video, then the job list will be applied on the media then being in place.

So, do the audio works in Waveform for generating your final audio material, and then use this in the Video Editor for substituting there the original audio with the by Waveform generated new version.

[sdantonio93]

Thank you

What I realized I should have done first is to check with my stepson who has a degree is film production and studied with Spielberg. He uses cakewalk sonar, but basically said the same think you did. I was hoping that with a different DAW (Waveform) might have different features to make things easier for me.

[Watchful]

Yeah, Waveform is definitely not a video tool or anything like that. Its ability to import video is--at best--a convenience for someone doing scoring work or trying to synch audio to specific times. It's not designed for, nor advertised as, anything superior to that.

I imagine there's a market for solid video integration--certainly you looked at it as a candidate, for example--but that's got to be at least a decade into Waveform's future.

[talby]

I in the recent past put many thoughts into this topic, and my recommendation is to use DaVinci Resolve - if the computer hardware, especially the dedicated GPU, supports it. DaVinci Resolve includes Fairlight, a DAW on its own. It is perfectly integrated into the DaVinci Resolve video editing system. But I don't have the heavy hardware, which DaVinci requires to run on it. For my hobby purposes I couldn't justify to purchase such PC with such specially powerful GPU, and DaVinci Resolve simply rejects to start operating as long as it doesn't find the wished, quite specific hardware. The older version 18.5 from a year ago right away rejected the installation. The current version 19 installs, but then, after already having asked for some user configuration, does not continue to start operating.
On my mediocre hardware, some laptop only, impossible to upgrade it with the needed specific GPU, I am now separating the video works to Kdenlive, and the audio works to Tracktion Waveform and apply a workflow as pointed out in my first message.