[Gary Orish]

SOLUTION:

I came across a way of doing this by accident.

Step 1. Make all the cuts and edits with the master camera clip (e.g. /raw/projectx/cam1.mp4)

Step 2. Export the EDL.

Step 3. Find & replace all “cam1” with “cam2” (or “camX”): /raw/projectx/cam2.mp4

Step 4. Import the EDL.

The timeline is replicated with all the cuts and edits, but with the another camera(s).

The whole timeline could then be rendered – as input for a multicamera edit; or it could be copied into the master project as a number of tracks that get sync’d with the master camera.

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[Gary Orish]

Hi and thanks for the swift response.

I’m afraid your suggestion doesn’t work. I can zoom in/out to change the size of the image with the pan/crop effect. OR I can crop one or more of the sides of the image (or video). But I can’t do both, I have to choose either one or the other.

I think what I’m looking for is a pan effect and a crop effect, separate from each other. I’m not quite sure why Sony combined them into a single effect – unless there is a way to do both cropping and panning [zooming] in the controls somehow.

When I tried your solution, the image was cropped (great!) but then the ENTIRE TRACK was panned off to the side (and was hidden from view). I tried moving the clip to a different track, but then it was still hidden – so maybe a kind of transparency mask might work. It’s also not feasible to create an entire new track just for one clip – and I have hundreds of clips that need to be cropped and moved into the correct position on top of an existing image.

What I managed to do as a work around was to use a graphics editor to crop an image, or a separate instance of vegas to crop and then render a video clip – and then I imported the image (or clip) back into vegas and applied the pan effect. Long-winded, but it works. If you have a more immediate or elegant solution then please let me know.

BTW, I also tried to max zoom out approach to make the edit-handles visible, but there was still nothing. I can’t reproduce this issue now, so when it happens again I’ll post a separate question to deal with it.

Many thanks,
Gary