Crop, rotate and color correction before multicam editing

[Mike Kujbida]

Multicam first, everything else afterwards.

[Fabio Mereghetti]

Won’t multicam split my clips in multiples events?

Than will I still be able to apply the crops and the correction
to the whole media at once or will I have to do it event by event?

And, most important, as I’m using a proxy track for one of the cameras,
will all this still let me substitute the proxy with the original, in the end,
and retain all the work done?

(I’ve not been using Vegas for some months so, please forgive me
if the answers to my questions are obvious).

Thanks.

fabio

[Mike Kujbida]

“Won’t multicam split my clips in multiples events?”

Yes it will.

“Than will I still be able to apply the crops and the correction
to the whole media at once or will I have to do it event by event?”

From an old post on the topic, FX applied at the track level will disappear.
FX applied at the event level will remain when the Master track is created.

“And, most important, as I’m using a proxy track for one of the cameras, will all this still let me substitute the proxy with the original, in the end, and retain all the work done?”

I don’t use proxies so I don’t want to guess at an answer.

[Mike Kujbida]

John Rofrano offers some excellent tips in the Multi-Cam on events with Video FX? thread.

[Nigel O’neill]

The Vasst Ultimate S Pro 4.x Quadcam plug-in will allow you to work as you suggested. I use it in exactly the way you describe. I work on the events at track level and apply FX and do what ever pan and crop is needed.

I believe the built-in multi-cam plugin that ships with Vegas is a bit limited, and I have not used it more than once, after which I got too frustrated with its limitations.

The Quadcam within Ultimate S is a bit quirky at first to use (perhaps because I did not fully RTFM), especially after you have processed the cameras to create the Master track and notice the lower tracks bleed through with the MC-Tally and MC-Overlay. I simply mute the lower video tracks once I have created the Master. Titles need to be on the top most track.

Download a free trial of Ultimate S. Some of this will make sense once you use the plugin. If you do lots of multi-cam work, this plugin is a must. If you need to use more than 4 cameras, you should look into Infiniticam. Once again, the user interface has a few quirks, but you should be able to figure them out.

I have used both and would highly recommend you check out Ultimate S Pro 4.x. I use Ultimate S almost in every project I do.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6