Using Multi Cam in Vegas or Excalibur

[Steve Edwards]

I do stand corrected. I must have stopped the one camera several times in the beginning when people were coming into the church, cause I played back the tape, and it switches scenes several times before the ceremony. (swore that I did not do that, but must have). Now what I can’t understand, I pick a point where the ceremony starts (with the bride/father in doorway of isle), and I have both cameras lined up (but audio is off), and by the time she gets to the altar, video/audio is off already. If I line up bride/father with a timeline at 00:07:02;03 on both cameras, by the time they get in front of the priest, one track is at 00:08:12;23, and the other track has to be lined up at 00:08:30;12 to be at the same spot on the video. If multicam editing is the difficult, I don’t want to me with again. But, I have this wedding video to finish, and at a halt till I figure out the solution. Thanks for the help, guys, I sure appreciate it!!!

[Don Bloom]

Multicam editing really as hard as it sometimes seems and here’s the trick.
Forget the timecode as the 2 cams might be off a bit. Snyc the audio by way of looking at the wavform-find a peak and use that as the starting point. Once you have that, there is a slight possiblity that it may drift a bit as time goes on but that’s cameras not software. Every camera is a tiny bit differnt but usually not enough to make a noticable difference.
Once you have you’r starting point then close your eyes and use your ears to go thru the audio at various point and see if it stays in sync or drifts-for fine adjust ment use the number pad 7/9 and 4/6 to move in varying increments to keep it where it’s supposed to be. Honestly once you have it sync’d there should be very little if any drift of the audio. Again if need be (if it does drift) find a slient area and cut the split the audio tracks and move with the keypad until it’s back in. You might need to do this more than once or not at all.
HTHs
Don