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Is there a Track Mixer for PPro? [not audio]
I’ve just finished capturing our latest music video, and now comes the editing. Whilst i’ve been sitting here complaining about a lot of things with Ppro, I’ve noticed something that would have been handy now.
I’ve got just over 30 perfomance tracks which are all lined up and in place now, it would be soo handy if there was a video mixer for me to be able to quickly punch shots in and out that I like. Then I could eventually plop it all down onto my single performance track, and THEN start adding in all the ‘story’ type of shots.Its ok when your dealing with just a few tracks…but this is going to be annoying.
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Also, I want to be able to quickly turn off tracks visibility, either by highlighting a single track and pressing ‘solo’ or by being able to just hold the mouse down once and running it over the little ‘eye’ icons. [kinda like in after effects].
Is there a better alternative program on the pc ?
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I would try to look for a music video director that can shoot far less than 30 tracks!
Just kidding 😉
JP
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Premiere Pro 2.0 has a multi-cam feature, but it is limited to 4 tracks.
Aanarav Sareen
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if this were my problem, I would take it in smaller chunks of tracks. Your ability to look at 30 tracks of video is limited by the human brain, so either use 4 track groups of video using the multi-cam feature, or take maybe 6 or 8 tracks, lay out the video in one multi-picture layout including text names for each track for your reference, then render it out as an AVI.
Do this for each group of tracks.
Then watch each rendered file on a separate timeline, and make your cuts where you want and keep track of what original tracks you want to use in each cut.
If you keep the sync point consistent among all tracks, you should then be able to merge your one track with the razor cuts back to your original timeline, make the same cuts on the original material, then repeat with each group of tracks until you have cut all your tracks to isolate the good shots.
You will still need to decide how to remove the overlaps among multiple good shots, but approaching this in smaller pieces is the best way to go.
In the olden days we did a paper edit before going near an edit bay, you will need a paper trail to help you out here.
Mike Cohen
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