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Switching between three simultaneous “takes”?
I have filmed my girlfriend dancing to a song three times – synced each of the four minute “takes” exactly, cut out the audio from the recording and replaced it with the CD master.
NOW – I want to be able to switch between the three, as if itwere three cameras. Maybe fade parts from one to the other (opacity) or even splicing them without unbelievably laboriously copying and pasting the entire thing and trimming it to a section.
Various techniques that all revolve around this same thing – fading, splicing, cutting, moving from one point to another.
I know a lot of this must be in key combinations – I’ve tried my damnedest but all I can do is fade the top layer 50% and use composite effects to give that “pop video” feel – but it is not what I want, and a bit tacky he he.
Can you lot help me?
Thanks so much.
Dan
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2 Replies
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There are multiple ways you can do multi-cam edits. Take a look at Vol 1 #9 of my newsletters to see multiple ways including script methods (which have evolved tremendously since then). Also Vegas Pro 8 has multi-cam editing built-in.
Edward Troxel
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I’m using Vegas Pro 8 and have been using it or its consumer-oriented predecessor(s) for some time, about 5 or 6 years, at least. Pro 8 since about early summer 2008?
Due to the limitations of my previous computer and budget, I did a lot of projects where I’d shot in HDV, but captured in SD/AVI. I have one particular project where I have a heavily keyframed timeline, especially on the video stream, and I’m now considering replacing the SD capture with its HDV/M2TS counterpart.
Is there a simple way to copy the envelope(s) from the SD clip in my project onto the HDV footage — or sort of swap the footage and retain the full envelope information?
The best online version of this project probably is the one that appears here:
Would defining the HDV footage as a separate take be a good approach? Or is there something much simpler? I’ve just tried getting my head around the way multi-camera takes work in Vegas, and I have to say so far I’m a little frustrated, but then the footage I was using in that project was not really multicamera per se, but separate takes from separate nights’ performances, each with unique timing that might not have been ideally suited for treatment under “multicamera editing”?
This is nothing 12 hours or so of hands on work won’t cure — but before I do that, I wanted to see if there are better ideas, especially when, in the old project I wanted to freshen up, the footage is really essentially identical, except that the one version has been downconverted. The source tape is the source for both clips.
Of course one twist I’m already noticing is that my original project consists of 3 separate clips in AVI (due to the 640MB limit?) while the HDV capture got all that as part of in one considerably longer clip.
Pointers to the right tutorials would be appreciated, as I suspect this is simpler than I’m making it at the moment.
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