Muting audio in a section of video

[tingsern]

I searched through the EDIUS PDF manual - but, I don't see any easy way for me to do this -

I want to mute the audio (not the entire track) of just some sections of the video on the VA track.

[John Lewis]

Try cutting at both ends and then moving cut portion to a video only track and then move back, the audio track will dissapear, or just adjust the rubber bands at both ends of the cut portion

[DigitalDave]

I would simply cut the sections you want muted and then enable only the video sections or if you knew they would never be needed ALT A to delete the audio

[mattie]

why not just use the audio rubber bands set to 0 for the bits u need muting?

[SRsupport]

alt + click audio part of clip (to select audio only) and press 0 (zero) to disable audio.

[tingsern]

Dave,

Your method is the best. Alt A to delete the audio portion of the clip.

Steve,

I tried your Alt+Click, then 0. If I select one clip using that method, great. Then further down the timeline, I do the same thing to another clip ... and the previous one got enabled again !!! I think it worked like a flip-flop switch :-).

Thanks, everybody for the responses.

[DigitalDave]

why not just use the audio rubber bands set to 0 for the bits u need muting?

Takes longer - suppose you have ten-twenty clips to mute......?

[tingsern]

Yes - Dave is right. Too tedius to use the rubber band method. Okay for adjusting the volume of individual clips - but, just for muting, I rather use the "brute force" method - Alt A :-).

[SRsupport]

Steve,

I tried your Alt+Click, then 0. If I select one clip using that method, great. Then further down the timeline, I do the same thing to another clip ... and the previous one got enabled again !!! I think it worked like a flip-flop switch :-).

Thanks, everybody for the responses.

It should work I do this all the time if a previous clip gets enabled again you have not shifted selection. :)
But I see you already have a another way of doing what you want enjoy.

Btw If you know you will not need audio of particular clips you can drag them to a V track or disable audio when adding to timeline.

[tingsern]

Steve,

I understand your method ... have to SHIFT SELECT all the AUDIO clips that I want at one go. But, I don't know that in advance ... I am removing processing audio one clip at a time. Hence, for me, ALT A is the best. Thanks anyway :-). I only require to remove some clip's audio - not all of them.

[mattie]

ah an even quicker way then is to only copy video from playback monitor to timeline - simply click the mute audio button and then no audio will transfer across.

[pjsssss]

All you guys are forgetting about the little speaker icon right above the timeline. Click that and no audio comes with the video.

[SRsupport]

This shows there are many ways to achieve something in EDIUS. :)

[pjsssss]

This shows there are many ways to achieve something in EDIUS. :)

Sometimes tooooo many ;-)

[SRsupport]

Choice is good. :)