[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

Thanks for your advice, but no success.

I selected the audio first, afterwards the IMAGE, and the created a multicam source file, with the settings as can be seen here

Afterwards, it generated all separate source files like

When I do it based upon timecode I have one multicam source, with both camera’s on top of each other (which I need, see screenshot 3))

Thank you,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

I’ve tried to use the audio option.
It took 5 minutes or so, but now it generated only separate multicam sequences.
Also, not all my image files are included, and I have the feeling it doesn’t always generate 2 video tracks in the timelines, but one, for one camera.
Also audio gets cut, so I think I must be doing something wrong here.

Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

Thank you for your suggestion.
There is reference audio from the camera, but I’m syncing using the timecode which is given in the metadata of the image and the separate sound files.

Even though these timecodes are 70% correct, sometimes it drifts depending on which camera I look at (A or B), with one or 2 frames, so I have to check these manually.

Are you saying to sync everything using the “audio” option from the “create multi-camera source sequence” (instead of the “timecode” option) will do all this work for me? Won’t it take a very long time to calculate everything (each sound file has 9 tracks, both from the camera and the files from the sound-guy)?

If that option still would have a drifting sync (because the timecode started drifting on the set due to calibration issues):
Is there a way of seeing the timeline, and seeing the camera points all at once, so I don’t have to switch between the visibility of both tracks?

Thanks,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Jim,

Thanks, but it still has the necessity of moving my hand to the mouse, clicking a clip, and disabling it, and moving back to the keyboard to work on the clip below, move my hand again, click it again, and enable it again.
I would like not to use the mouse, and that’s why I wanted to toggle the track by pressing for example 1 for V1, 2 for V2, and so on.

Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

Do you mean a multicamera source sequence?
It’s actually such a sequence, but I open it in the timeline. I need to sync up the slates of two camera positions each time, but sometimes the slate of one position is one frame off in comparison with the other one.

Everything is unlinked (audio came separately) so I move clips now, by clicking them and pressing CMD + left arrow or right arrow. I first check one video track, then I check the track above or below, by changing the visibility.
Maybe, there’s a handier way of doing that and I’m too inexperienced in working with multicam ☺ , and is there a possibility to see and move a clip a frame in multicam view.

Thank you,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Andy,

Yes thanks, I know about that option. But I need to check quickly between two (multicam)video tracks if my sync is right or not.
So, instead of clicking it, I think I would win half of my time by having a shortcut (it’s a thing I have to do 400 times a day ☺ )

Thanks,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Eric,
Thank you for your answer, but unfortunately, this explains the toggling of the target of the tracks, not the visibility.

Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Roei,

Thank you for your reply.
I didn’t know that plugin, so maybe it can be a good idea to try that too!

Thank you,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your reply.
It’s for a website I have to create. When hovering over the image of the man or the horse, both of them start breathing.
I ‘ll try the time remap trick as soon as I have filmed it.

Thank you,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

The only solution and workaround I can imagine, is to photoshop previous and next button-images on the slides (because apparently I can’t add real buttons to a slide) and to make the slideshow manual. That way the menu remote button will work. It isn’t that a big problem for me the slideshow won’t be automatic…