[Edward Troxel]

I like WMV. Play around with the presets around 1Mbps. See what file size/quality you get. If you need a smaller file, go down a preset. If you want a larger file and better quality, go up a step.

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[Edward Troxel]

Yes, there is a script that can help you. Excalibur will bring back missing audio or video from the remaining pieces. Just click on the audio, run the Restore Missing A/V tool, and your missing pieces will be returned. They will be added to a new track so you may wish to move them to the proper track afterwards.

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[Edward Troxel]

[Ted Snow] “I forgot to mention that once I get all the video edited the way I want it I mute the original video tracks.”

That’s really unnecessary unless you’ve lowered the opacity of some of the events on the Master track.

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[Edward Troxel]

[Ted Snow] “I Then “cut” the sections of video I want to use from each individual video track and drag it to the top track. Then I pick the next scene from the best video track and repeat the process of cutting and moving to the top track.”

That’s basically what Excalibur does – except it does all the hard work for you. You can always tell exactly which track is active via the tally system. Here’s an overview of how Excalibur 3 worked (but the principles are the same for Excalibur 4 – it just has more features!)

https://www.jetdv.com/vegas/ExcaliburOV.wmv

For an overview of multiple ways to edit Multi-cam video, look at Vol 1, #9 of my newsletters.

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[Edward Troxel]

[Terje A. Bergesen] “Rendering is CPU and RAM bound, not disk bound.”

That’s not always true. If I’m rendering something that is predominently DV-AVI with no effects, it’s basically doing a “file copy”. In this case, it generally WILL be faster rendering to a separate drive. Bottom line – it depends on the project so it may or may not be true.

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[Edward Troxel]

Each track has mute and solo buttons that can cause this “problem”. Also, under OPTIONS, you will find the “Mute All Video” and “Mute All Audio” options.

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[Edward Troxel]

First of all, if they’re ALL running ALL the time, the “Holes” should be the same length on every one of them (i.e. there was a five minute pause, all cameras have a five minute pause). So, you should not have a problem cutting 5 minutes from one, 6 from another, and 10 from the third – they’ll all have 5 minutes cut.

I leave ripple editing turned off. Do what I said in the previous post to get everything synced. Now to remove the sections, simply put a selection area around the section to remove, press “Delete”, and then CTRL-Shift-F (post ripple edit mode – ripple everything). Now everything to the right will fill the “hole”. So there will be NO holes on the timeline once you have removed all of the unwanted sections.

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[Edward Troxel]

You may also have to update to QT7.

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[Edward Troxel]

[Unkhakook] “what would be the procedure for doing a re-render of the individual clips on the timeline (using regions, I believe you said)”

Excalibur has a Marker/Region tool that will add a region around each clip and will name each region from the Take Name. It also has a “DVD Asset Collector” tool which can be used to then render each of those regions to a new file using the Region Name as the file name.

[Unkhakook] “if I re-render DV clips, will I lose quality?”

Straight DV-AVI to DV-AVI will simply be a “file copy” – NO loss.

[Unkhakook] “should I be using the native Vegas DV codec? (the sony one, right)”

Yes. Stick with the Sony Codec.

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[Edward Troxel]

Margie, I agree with Ted. On a multi-cam shoot – start them all at the beginning and just let them run. Here’s how I would do it:

Capture each camera.
Load each camera on the timeline, labeled properly, and then SYNC them. You now have the sync’d PIP view.

Now I would go through the timeline and delete the “dead” sections making sure that ALL tracks close the gaps created properly. You will now have a shortened timeline that has all the dead sections removed and you only had to sync ONCE!

Now use Multi-cam to edit the “good stuff”. Make sure you put a camera switch at the point where you cut out each “dead” piece as you’ll probably want to change cameras at that point.

It’s MUCH easier to sync once and delete than to sync 30 times!

Edward Troxel