picture in picture with multicam

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Can you give some more information?

If you have two angles and are doing a multicam edit, how does the PIP fit into this scenario? Are you wanting to alternate the PIP image depending on which video stream is active in the multicam?

Please clarify.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

in the multicam scenario, at times camera two shot for example, an sudience shot. It’s not always just a diff camera angle on the subject.

so I just want to have PiP at times, one take PiP in the other.

I hope this helps to clarify.
g

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Okay, so you aren’t using the multicam edit tool, you are just using the word to state you are using more than one camera while filming.

Just use the pan and crop icon on the video event (it looks like a square in the top right corner of the video event on the timeline). Shrink it down (expand it in the pan/crop gui) and place it where you want. Be sure to pay attention to the controls on the left in the gui.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Hi Jeremy,
Yes, I am using the multicam tool. As you know it creates one track with 2 takes. I want to be able to crate a pip, where one picture (track) is smaller in the other (the other track).
G

[Jeremy Rasnic]

I am having difficulty understanding what you are wanting to do.

You have two cams and you feed the footage into the multicam tool. Do you want to take a third clip and make a picture-in-picture effect? Or do you want to take one of the cams in the multicam track and take each event from that one cam and make that be a PIP?

Are either of those correct? Do you have an example of what you are wanting? If so, post a link so I can help you.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

“do you want to take one of the cams in the multicam track and take each event from that one cam and make that be a PIP?”

Yes! that’s pretty well what I want but, at times I want one take to be PiP on the other existing take.

in point form:

1. I have a project with a 2-camera multicam track (1 track with 2 takes)
2. In multicam, you select ONE take OR the other as you select your cameras (or “takes”)
2. At times during my project I want one take to be seen as a small PiP square on top of the other take. both takes can be seen concurrently (PiP)

G

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Here is what I would do. I save a copy of the veg file pre multicam and one for multicam. IF you did this, you can take your already lined up video events from the two cams and place them over top the multicam track (just copy and paste from one instance of vegas to the other). It should be the same length so there should be no problem lining it up.

Now, as you are watching through (solo your multicam track- control on the track header to the left “!”). When you want to add a PIP, make the cuts at the appropriate time and apply the pan/crop at the track level instead of the event level and you should only have to remove the unwanted video from the other track.

Hope this is helpful.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Jeremy,

I was hoping for an easier way. I don’t have a veg file of the project pre-multicam. I guess I would have to re-sync the clip and find the portion that I’m looking for. This will be time consuming.

it’s unfortunate that there isn’t a better way.

Thanks for sharing this work-around though.
g

[Jeremy Rasnic]

Another way would be to take the multicam track and copy and paste it above. On that track you would need to select the event and choose the alternate take (right click dropdown). You would still need to set the pan/crop at the track level.

j razz

https://www.jrazzcreations.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Jeremy!

This is precisely what I’ll do! it works well.

G