[Paul Kon]

Thanks–this is really helpful. I have a similar situation whereby I shot an interview with two cameras, and wanted a clean way to switch from one to the other, without doing a lot of cutting of video.

Fortunately I kept both cameras running the whole time, and so I didn’t have a sync issue. That made using the “Envelope” feature in Vegas really easy, to not just switch from one stream to the other, but even easily define the fade between one and the other.

Paul.

[Paul Kon]

thanks J–looks like a novel approach. I’ll check it out.

Paul.

[Paul Kon]

Thanks all for your great suggestions. I tried Theo’s approach and it worked well. For any other beginners out there, he’s exactly what I did.

1. Duplicated the video track. At first I couldn’t because I had the max of 4 video tracks already (for no good reason). I just deleted one of these and then Duplicate Track became active.

2. I put the duplicate track in layer 2, with the original in layer 1.

3. On the original track, I clicked the flim strip thing for “compositing mode” and chose Multiply (Mask).

4. From the Video FX track I dragged in the “levels” and the “color corrector.”

5. On “levels” I put the Gamma up to 2.1.

6. On “color corrector” I put the gamma up to 2. I also put the saturation up to 1.5.

The result looks pretty much like what Theo generated. Thanks again everyone for your help–the output looks much better now.

Paul.