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Laying down audio tracks
Colleagues
I am brand new to Vegas.
I have some video from a multi-camera shoot that I need to edit. The cameras all recorded their own audio and the source files are all AVCHD. I am looking to take the audio track from one camera and lay it down through the whole edit. I then want to place shots from different cameras (different angles) along the timeline. I am struggling to find how you do this. I guess that you can understand that the simplest editing you can do with Vegas treats the video and audio tracks as tied together so that when you cut from one video to another you get all the audio tracks with it. Sorry this is such an elementary question but any ideas please?
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3 Replies
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If you have Vegas Pro, use the multicam feature that was introduced in Pro 8 as it works great.
If you won’t have Pro, then it gets a bit trickier.
My suggestion would be to drop all the tracks on your timeline, one on top of the other.
Use Track Motion to place each camera in one of 4 corners.
With AVCHD footage, your computer will struggle unless you’re running an i7 with a lot of RAM.
Use one track as the master and then start syncing the other tracks to it, one at a time.
Use the track mute options to turn off the other tracks.
Once you get them all synced up, press the “Ignore Event Grouping” icon on the task bar (the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+U) and delete the unneeded audio tracks.
Disable this option as soon as this is done.
Go through the timeline and drop a marker (shortcut key is m), labeling it as to which camera should be active at this point.
Once you’re done, open up Track Motion on each track and restore it to it’s normal size.
Create a new video track and place it on top.
At each marker, click on the specific track to highlight it, split it using the “s” key and move that event to the top track.
I use the number 8 on the numeric keyboard to do this.
Numeric 2 will move an event down each time it’s pressed.
Once you’re done, mute all tracks except the master video and audio and watch it to see if it’s what you want.
Keep the other tracks there in case you change your mind and want to go with a different shot. -
Mike
Brilliant. Very comprehensive answer. Thanks.
I have the non-pro software. I have to say that it is remarkable for the price but I guess this is one feature that differentiates the better version. Even so I tried what you suggested and it works OK.
Richard
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Richard, I’m very glad to hear that my suggestion worked for you.
I had to do something similar about 6 years ago (back in my Vegas 4.0 days as I recall) and used that same technique.
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