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  • QUESTION – trackers for multi camera

    Posted by Seth Palenscar on November 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Hello,

    I have a two camera scene I am editing in multi-camera mode. I need to blur out 2 to 3 faces on each camera shot. Does anyone have any suggestions on the easiest (fastest) way to do this? I have too many cuts from one camera to the other to manually adjust the trackers for each shot. I’m also only talking about one take for each camera and the shots stay at mostly the same framing. Is there a way to add an effect to a whole clip and then edit from that clip without having to first create a sequence. Thanks in advance.

    Seth

    Seth Aaron Palenscar
    Producer / Director
    Fairfax County Police Department
    se************@***********ty.gov

    Juris Eksts replied 16 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Scott Cumbo

    November 16, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    there may be a better way to do this, but off the top of my head I
    would take angle 1 only cut it into a sequence, track my blur.
    than do the same with angle 2. then i would do a video mixdown of each, then group the mixdowns and the audio (maybe even include the un blured clips in the group. just to keep the timecode with the group) and cut it that way.

    down side is your lossing your timecode so you can’t re-capture.

    Scott Cumbo
    Editor
    Broadway Video, NYC

  • Juris Eksts

    November 17, 2009 at 10:28 am

    First try Scott’s method above, but if you’ve already cut your sequence, try putting the blur effects on two filler layers above the multi-cam sequence, one set-up for one shot, and the other for the other. Then using add-edits at the cut points, cut both filler layers, then delete the appropriate un-needed sections.

    Juris

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