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Cutting out footage on Wedding
I have some wedding footage that has ceremony and mass included. I have to cut out the mass, because client only wants the ceremony. I have 2 tracks of video/audio, and have already used Excalibur Multicam feature and assigned all the camera switches. My question is, to get that 20 min. of footage removed, do I “Select All” and do splits and remove, or do I render to mpeg2, bring back into Vegas and do my splits then? I tried the first option (select all/split) and it seemed to have scattered the files, and removed the tally track & master track. Unless I did something wrong.
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I’d render the full production out to your native format (DV, HDV or whatever). The same format you started with, it will be lossless (no loss of quality). Then take that new file back into Vegas and cut. Then render out to Mpeg2 for DVD’s.
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So what you are saying is start from scratch? I captured with Scenalyzer 4, (which captures in avi). So, go back to the avi file, cut out what I want in Vegas, then go through all the syncing and multicam camera settings, etc again? I hope there is an easier way, cause this will put me back at starting fresh.
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I think he means take the multicamera edit that you have, and render the whole project to a NEW avi. Then drop that already edited avi into a new timeline and cut out the mass. Then render to mpeg2 for dvd.
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No need to render anything. Just drop your project into a new project as a “nested project” and cut out the parts you don’t want. When you render, it will be as if you rendered just the sections you wanted from the original project.
~jr
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Have not created a nested project before, so this is what you are saying. Open a new project in Vegas, go to explorer pane and find wedding veg, and drag it to timeline? Isn’t it going to just look for all the files (same as original project) and place the project on the timeline looking just as it does in the saved project?
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> Have not created a nested project before, so this is what you are saying. Open a new project in Vegas, go to explorer pane and find wedding veg, and drag it to timeline?
Yes, just like any other piece of media.
> Isn’t it going to just look for all the files (same as original project) and place the project on the timeline looking just as it does in the saved project?
Nope. It looks like a single piece of media just as if you had rendered it and brought it back in. the cool part is that you can still right-click on it and select Edit in Vegas and a second instance of Vegas will open up with all of the tracks. You can then edit it and save it and when you return to your master project, the changes will be visible.
I use this all the time to create complex multi-track openings to my projects but keep my main project just a few tracks because all of the complexity remains in the nested project.
If you haven’t used nested projects before, you are in for a “expanding workflow possibility” treat. 😉
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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