I have worked with Premiere Elements 8 and have nearly finished my first major project in ProShow Producer. I had assumed that Producer would give me the same type of audio tools that I am used to in PE8. It clearly does not, so here is my problem and also a very time consuming solution. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate your advice.
It is a half hour mixed video and still (mainly still) presentation. The sound track consists of narration (297 separate narration clips to match the screen images), wild recordings made on location and recorded background music. My plan is to have music sometimes playing behind the narration, then fade up when there is no narration, with the wild recordings fed in at appropriate points, also capable of sometimes being “behind” the narration.
To accomplish this, I would need at least two parallel sound tracks. It seems to me that I am able only to associate one sound track with any given point in the ProShow project. My time consuming solution is to prepare a spreadsheet on which I record the start and end times together with the timeline location in the production of each slide or video clip and the length of each SFX component and its location. I then go to my audio editing software and lay down each SFX component according to its timeline location, using several tracks. I then mix down the tracks to one final version which I then import into the ProShow project. Because this is not an exact science, I end up having to tweak the length of some of the images to make the sound track “fit”.
Surely, there must be a better way. Many thanks in advance.