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V10.0 Multicam Editing & Track Priority
I’m currently working on a Multicam project where I have two camera video tracks and a third video track where I’ve placed .JPG’s saved from a PowerPoint presentation. Camera 1 and 2 have been sync’d and the .JPG’s added where they belong in the workflow. The idea is to add in the .JPG’s when the presenter makes reference to a particular slide.
I enabled the Multicamera Editing mode and have the three video tracks displayed in the preview window. I’m able to toggle the display and select the take I want as the project runs. Most of the time things work well except occasionally, the active take will move from one track to another. Example: Active in Cam 1 and then jumps to active in Cam 2 without my selecting it. I’m able to stop, reverse and correct it IF I happen to catch it. Is there a track priority? Is it ok to have blank areas in a track, such as placing .JPG’s intermittently with space between?
Brad -
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Can you show a screen cap of your project? I’ve had problems somewhat similar to this, though it was when I was highlighting footage, then switching angles, and even though the cursor was at the end of the highlighted section, the cut was made at the beginning of it. You may be doing something unintentionally like that.
How are you switching angles? Are you using the keypad, or clicking directly on the preview monitor? I’ve had slips of the finger where I quickly cut to the wrong track immediately preceding or following the one I intended.
You shouldn’t have a problem putting the still pictures in empty areas as long as you’ve already created the multicamera track. If you were to try to add them on an additional track as a third track and create a veritable new multicamera project, then it wouldn’t work.
Save your project before you try such changes as a separate project so you can go back to it if things go irretrievably wrong.
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Hi Angelo,
Don’t know how to do a screen capture and I don’t think it would show the problem anyway.
I set up a controlled test using video in track 1 (its’ audio in 2), video in track 3 (its’ audio in 4), and a string of JPG’s in track 5, and then enabled Multicam mode and Multicam editing.
The timeline view is now the new Multicam track with active video on track 1 and audio on track 2. In the preview monitor are the 3 video tracks. (I use the mouse to select the take I want in the preview monitor).
Here is an example of the problem; video is running fine and then selected a JPG in track 3 to become the active take; at the end of the preset time for the JPG, the active take bounces back to the primary video in track 1, even though there is another JPG follow the one I previously selected. What I wanted was, following playing the two JPG’s, to manually make the selection to make track 1 the active track again. Consistently bounces to track 1 after just the first JPG. I tried this several times with the same results.
There is a rule in Multicam that a blank track can not be selected. Maybe the software sees the transition between the 2 JPG’s as a blank area, even though I tried butting them together and then again by cross fading them. Same results.
I’m at a loss.
Brad -
Press the “Prt Scr Sys Rq” button by the scroll lock to make a screen cap. Then paste it in Paint or whatever and you can upload it here. I’d be interested in seeing your timeline.
It sounds like the jpeg picture is just not long enough on the timeline, forcing Vegas to switch to another track. Are all your pictures the same length? Vegas defaults to 5 seconds for me for pictures.
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Angelo,
I created a new simplified project as a sample;The first screen shot shows the project with about a 1 minute video
and associated audio in the second track. In the third track I’ve added
three, 5 second JPG’s. The first group I have left space between them.
The second group are butted, and the third group are cross faded.
The plan was to see if it made a difference in the multicam editing;
The scecond shot is after selecting Ctrl A, Multicam Track;
The third shot is after selecting Multicam Editing, but before editing;
When I start the video playing, the JPG’s will eventually appear in the project
preview window as Cam 2. I can manually select the JPG to be the active take,
but at the end of the JPG, the take automatically switches back to Cam 1.
This happens with all three test groups. I would expect this on the group where
the JPG’s have a blank space between them, but not on the joined groups.
It seems that whenever the Vegas SW sees a “fade handle” on the JPG in Cam 2,
it automatically defaults back to Cam 1. What I really want is to “play through”
all the butted or cross faded JPG’s before switching back to Cam 1.Hope this helps,
Brad
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