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24Pa Multi camera Help!
I am shhoting a music video and have about 15-20 different takes of a 3 minute song to emulate many camera angles. I am editing the songs 4 camera angles at a time(UltimateS rocks) and render to 1 track bring it back in and add 3 more angles edit them, and render as one track and so on. When I render them over and over there seems to be jaggies on the reds. So the question is If I’m on a 24p timeline and the footage is 23.97 with 2332 pulldown, what do I use to render the multi angles into one clip.(final is a 24p dvd) I have been renderfing at “23.97 with 2332 pulldown” and it seems like it is recompressing as it takes a while, and I have no effects at all on the clips. Hope this isn’t confusing.
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If you want to do it all in a single pass, Excalibur can handle up to 25 cameras at once. Then you wouldn’t need any intermediate renders.
Edward Troxel
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Just make sure you are rendering to the same format as the original footage. (24P or 24PA). You indicated it is 24PA (2:3:3:2). It should be a super quick render if the footage is not being converted and you are not doing any FX to it. You can take a look at the source clips in the Project Media to see if it is “Advanced” pull down or not.
Also — you may want to take a look at Excalibur. It could add a couple of hundred new automated tasks to your toolbox. Excalibur is the original scripting plugin for Vegas that brought multi-cam ( more than two years ago). Real-time camera switching is now possible in Vegas 6.0b thanks to Excalibur (Sony added this feature at Excalibur’s request to further enhance the existing multi-cam). Plus — you get all your camra angles added as “takes” so that you can swap them out on the fly quickly and effortlessly. You can monitor up to 25 cams at once, plus bounce back and forth from your line cut to the 25 cam view, and also get tally updates. It’s definitely the best multi-cam tool available now for Vegas.
I find it interesting that so many others have followed Excalibur’s lead. Pinnacle added multicam to Liquid, so similar to Excalibur it’s eerie. And look at Apple, touting multicam as a huge new feature for Final Cut. Thanks to Excalibur, I didn’t have to wait for the others to catch up as I’ve been editing multi-cam events with it for quite some time.
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