hi,

I have just started working on AVID, coming from a Final Cut PRo background. I'm editing a live concert, so I work with the video footage (with the sound of the camera). I have an audio file of the recorded audio of the gig that I've imported into AVID. I want to link this audio to the video (and not use the audio of the camera) Thats all in sync in the timeline. What I want to do then, is to create a video-clip with the video and the new audio (withtout using the bad audio of the camera) I'd like to have a video clip in my bin, with the good audio. I know I can do it by exporting it as a audio/video mixdown, but I would lose quality and I dont want to do that. In Final Cut Pro its very simple, you just drag the selected audio and the video from the timeline to the bin and it creates a new video clip.....(a video clip with the good quality audio instead of the audio recorded by the camera) how can I do that on Avid? thanx for your answers!

Does your video HAVE to be in the timeline first? Is it edited? If not, you can sync the camera rushes to the good audio using Auto sync. 

If it is an edited video track, then you want to do a video and  audio mixdown (you will not lose any quality) but I would have to ask, what would be the point? You can use the sequence as if it were a clip so you really would not NEED to mixdown.

I guess a little more information about why you want a single clip would help and if that clip is an edited finish or just camera rushes.

 thanks,

I've sorted out the problem

Cheers

And you don't feel like sharing the solution?

I bet it involves either AutoSync or GroupClips.