MultiCam Tutorial

[Rick Mac]

Here is a link to a video tutorial.

Regards, Rick.

https://www.jetdv.com/excalibur/multicam.php

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Steve Edwards]

Thanks Rick.
So if I am doing a wedding with say 3 cameras, I need to save, from beginning to end, all three tapes to my hard drive, and maybe label the file of each tape captured to hard drive, as camera #1,#2,#3 ?
And doing a wedding, what sort of way would you use to see a defining point on the audio, for syncing each one?

[Rick Mac]

[steveandbelinda] “what sort of way would you use to see a defining point on the audio, for syncing each one?”

You could set off a camera flash that all three cam’s can see.
Cam flash is great since it happens so fast you can get your sync frame accurate. You could also put all three cams together and clap. Then look at the audio waveform to sync.

Be sure to keep all cameras rolling (no stops) until the ceremony is done, that way you do not have to resync your cameras.

I use excailbur for all my multicam shoots and it works very well.

If you forget to do a sync flash or clap of your own fear not, at weddings there are so many flashes going off that you can use one of them.

Regards, Rick.

[Edward Troxel]

The video at the link Rick gave gives a good overview of the process. I usually use audio as a sync point. It’s easy to find a spot where audio suddenly starts from silence. I line those up and then manually fine-tune while listening.

The clips can be named anything you like. The tracks you place the clips on need to be named 1 for camera 1, 2 for camera 2, etc…

Edward Troxel