[Margie Marfi]

Ok, will send within the next 10 or 15 minutes.

[Margie Marfi]

Hi Edward,

This is getting so long I didn’t know if it’d be better to start another question… but it’s still me. I did the cuts and deletions..camera switches, etc. Ran the multicam wizard and it moved only about the first two minutes up to the Master track .. then went back to the muli pip … which was not on the Master Track, it was below on the pip track. I do know that my marker flags ..nos 1 and 2 were at the start and 3 had the content marked “end” then I had about 26 camera switches inbetween those two extremes. Didn’t know if that’s the problem. Removed the #3 “end” updated tally indicator ..if that did anything and got the same result. If that’s the problem is there anyway to automate renumbering all the marker flags in the proper order from start to end?

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks Charlie,

I’m so perpetually green at all of this I better never add that convenience in :):)!

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Ted,

Probably I should’ve or should take a short piece and do it your way then do it with Excalibur to see how it works. Between Vegas and Excalibur there are a huge amount of tools. Just takes time to learn. This support group helps a HUGE amount.

Just wondered, for you, after you have the top tracks .. your master track, can’t you just delete the source tracks rather than muting them (not from the project but just from the timeline). Does that make a difference in lightening up the project when rendering? Or just not so much to look at? I repaired a multi frame drop out with a recapture that happened to have a good piece in it to replace the bad. When I was done, I deleted the “donor” from the timeline and rendered out the good intact one as an AVI to use in this project. That was per help from Edward!

Thank you again,
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks Edward,

I printed off the keyboard shortcuts yesterday to take to work to see where the mute all was. Didn’t know if a fat wayward finger accidentally hit a wrong key!

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thanks Edward,

I had to go to work work yesterday so had to leave. Today I don’t so can work on this more. Some of the audio that I want is under the video that I don’t want so if I cut the section then the audio will be gone too. Don’t know if I should do a cut paste on all three videos and audios so they are all made up with more of what I want and all more equal in length .. and then run the sync for the multi cam?

Then, when do I do any special effects that I might want. ie Chroma Keyer ..etc. After I get done with this part (the camera switches) and it’s rendered out as a single piece ie one video and one audio? Or do I do special effects before all of this?

Thanks again,

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you for your post! Don’t have the time to laugh at myself right now ..opened a project earlier that had many tracks grayed out … nothing.. so went back to an earlier save. Just figured it was the way things were going. Must’ve done the same as you, now just need to find where the mute all button is so I know how to fix what I didn’t know I did.

Thanks,
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Forgot do I have the post edit ripple mode turned on .. must or there would be holes all over the place. How about the group mode. Then worried about chopping a music piece off when I get rid of the dead video. Shhesssh. Don’t understand how not to worry about the audio just the video.

Thanks,
Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Edward,

I’m just worried that .. working on the three tracks, say I remove five min from one 15 min from a second and 30 minutes from the third from areas within and without… won’t that throw off my sync big time!!??

Margie

[Margie Marfi]

Thank you Ted,

So then if you have 3 cameras worth of one plus hour where you have sections of garbage in the assorted middles of all of them .. how do you jump from one to the other spanning the sections that you don’t want? Now I’m thinking in mine perhaps my problem is that all three weren’t started at the same time. The body of all are the same, but not the beginning and end. One has preview shots of the church, etc. Then starts as guests are coming in. Maybe I need to separate the unrelated events rather than have them grouped together as a single event on the timeline.

Margie