• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Edit problem in CS6 – alignment of two clips

  Posted by Gavin Melville on February 24, 2013 at 4:03 am

  This might be a newbie question….

  I’m trying to align two clips by an event common to them. Only one has source timecode. They are in different formats, taken from slightly different angles.

  Consider the case where two dissimilar cameras see the same person, who blinks. I want to use footage before and after the blink in both cases, ie. the in and out points are not at the blink.

  Currently I’ve been setting the opacity of the higher numbered clip to 50% and seeing both overlaid, but this isn’t easy.

  I guess what I’m after is put a “marker” on each track and then align the markers.

  Is there an easy way to do this — even if I could get two tracks on the Program Monitor at one time, one above the other, that would do fine.

  Any bright ideas ?
  Regards,
  Gavin Melville.

  Angelo Lorenzo replied 13 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jon Barrie

  February 24, 2013 at 8:45 am

  G’day Gavin,

  You can do this in the timeline and have them both set to “Scale to Frame” then set the scale to 50%.

  To get one on the left side, alter the Motion (twirl down):
  position value of x to 0 and y as default
  anchor point value of x to 0 and y default

  To get the other on the right:
  position values x and y as default
  anchor point of x to 0 and y default.

  The real trick to working with footage like this is to have a camera flash both camera’s can see or to clap before or after the main footage is shot so you have a visual and audio reference to marker as 0 or another number the same and sync that way.

  Good Luck.

  – JB

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  Angelo Lorenzo

  February 24, 2013 at 5:38 pm

  Window > Reference Monitor. When the new panel opens, go to the little context menu in the upper right and turn off “Gang to Program Monitor”

  Now you basically have two independent program monitors.

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