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Multi-cam with stacked intro events?
I’m doing a 2 camera multi-cam video and have a question about an introduction.
Before the actual camcorder videos begin, I have an title/intro at the beginning of the timeline.There is a title event, which is a generated media text with alpha, on track 1 (which is also the track that camera 1’s video is on). There is a moving background file in track 3 which serves as the background for the title text in track 1. (Track 3 also contains the video for camera 2.)
When I create the multi-cam track and start the process of choosing the camera, Vegas considers the generated text and the moving background as separate cameras, so I have a choice of choosing the text or choosing the moving background. I can understand why Vegas does this but it isn’t what I want. I want the title text to display over the top of the moving background like it would in a single camera situation.
I know I can render the intro to a file and substitute that in the time line so that Vegas only sees 1 video event at that point in the timeline. But is there a better way to accomplish this end result in a multi-cam situation?
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[Dale McClelland] “When I create the multi-cam track and start the process of choosing the camera, Vegas considers the generated text and the moving background as separate cameras, so I have a choice of choosing the text or choosing the moving background. I can understand why Vegas does this but it isn’t what I want.”
So don’t keep them on the same track as the multi-camera events. Vegas has unlimited tracks. Use them.
[Dale McClelland] “I know I can render the intro to a file and substitute that in the time line so that Vegas only sees 1 video event at that point in the timeline. But is there a better way to accomplish this end result in a multi-cam situation?”
You could use nested projects. Just create the intro in another project and then drop that project into your main project. It will behave like any other piece of media. No rendering required.
~jr
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Thanks! Both your suggestions are better approaches than rendering. I thought Vegas was treating the text and background as separate cameras because they are, in fact, separate video events on different tracks and therefore Vegas thought it was 2 cameras. I didn’t realize it was because they were on the same tracks as the camcorders’ video. I placed them on their own 2 tracks and now Vegas does not include them in the multi-cam track. What I now realize is that when Vegas creates the multi-cam track, it (wisely) does so only for selected tracks. I had thought it automatically included all video tracks.
Problem solved! Thanks again for your help. Having only recently upgraded from Movie Studio to Pro, I am new to multi-cam editing and am struggling with it a little. But I’m finding it opens up many new and exciting possibilities.
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Dale
I use Vasst Ultimate S and I keep my titles on the top most track
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