Editing video to an audio track

[airraider]

I'm tired of just adding background music to my videos. I'm from the old days when you could lay down an audio track on tape and insert video clips to match the music. Are there consumer products out there that will allow this? I have Pinnacle v8.8,Ulead Movie Studio and others. Perhaps these programs can do what I want and I just haven't figured it out. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

[guns1inger]

I don't understand how that is any different to now. It is the reverse of what most of us do, as we usually start with the video, but any editing program can also work from the audio first. Unless I'm missing something in your request ?

You might have to lift yourself a tier in software to find better audio editing capabilities - Vegas has very good multi-track editing, for example.

I guess I don't understand what you are after, as I can't see why current software can't do it.

[airraider]

I apologize for being unclear. Back in the old days I made music videos on 1 inch tape machines. A/B switching. Tape 'B' would only contain the audio I wanted for the video. Tape 'A' would contain the raw video. I would insert video from tape A to tape B 'on the beat' so the video being seen would make sense relative to the chosen audio track. Since I now use a computer for this type of project, I am lost as to how to perform this once simple task. What I want to do is hear my audio only and then decide which video would fit a particular passage with frame accurate editing.
I hope I'm making some sense. I really miss editing my videos with this method...thanks

[guns1inger]

Basically you want realtime insert editing in a non-linear world ?

I have done similar in Vegas by putting the audio on one track, multiple video tracks on their own timelines - some times different cameras form the same shoot, sometimes not - then mute the ones I don't want to see. I can move them backwards and forwards by dragging them, and then play again. By simply turning on and off layers I can see what different angles bring. it is close to realtime in many respects.

Otherwise you might have to Google for VJ type packages that allow you to mix video to audio in a live setting. Something like that might suit you better.