Vegas multi-camera joy
Just to say I do love the Vegas multi-camera function which is fantastic - used it for a 2 camera shoot. But i cant find in th emanual how to restore the original 2 tracks, they disappear leaving the final edited one. Anyone help in restoring the original tracks?
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The newly created multicam track stays as one trcak after multicam editing is finshed/disabled.
What you want to do is, after you've sync'd up the tracks,and BEFORE you create a multicam track, duplicate the 2 video tracks, so now you've got 4 video tracks, THEN select 2 video tracks (one from each cam) and create the multicam track , you now got 2 spare video tracks, already sync'd to use as spare after completing the multicam track. If you don't need them after then delete them. Paul. |
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The "duplicate" tracks method paul refers to is too cumbersome for me as I will sometimes have a half dozen other supporting audio tracks synched up with the video.
I just synch everything up first before starting the multicam edit then do a "save as" making myself a temporary copy of the project. I then reopen the first project and make the edit. Once I'm done I just open the saved project with all the extra audio tracks in it, copy and paste those in the multicam edit. Being able to have multiple copies of Vegas makes this pretty painless. I'm new with Vegas so if there's a more conventional way to do this with a lot of tracks I'd like to hear it. |
Rick, I think Paul is only suggesting you duplicate the video tracks which you can lock to the audio tracks. I may have misunderstood, but creating a whole separate veg appears to be even more cumbersome. I had a bad night though, so my brain is numb this morning!
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While multi-cam is built-in in Vegas Pro 8, multi-cam has been available for over 5 years in Vegas! |
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Chris, it wasn't so much the creation of the second veg as the copying and pasting of the tracks back into the original that Rick talked of that I thought was cumbersome.
Rick said . . .: "I just synch everything up first before starting the multicam edit then do a "save as" making myself a temporary copy of the project. I then reopen the first project and make the edit. Once I'm done I just open the saved project with all the extra audio tracks in it, copy and paste those in the multicam edit." . . . which appears to be different to your method and involves more steps, hence my comment about it seeming more cumbersome than just duplicating the video tracks and muting/minimising them as required. But to be honest, I'm not an event videographer and I haven't used (and don't expect to use) the multicam features of Vegas, so this was just an uninformed observation. |
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It's just a lot easier for me to open another instance of Vegas with the original synched timelines (before I invoked multicam)... copy all the audio tracks and paste them into the multicam edit. Takes all of 10 seconds. This is a workflow I'm just carrying over from Premiere. I haven't quite figured out how to apply any CC filters to the footage before I start multicam though. I think I have to do in the project media window first. |
Ah, I just meant duplicating the video tracks.
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But I agree that the behavior of Vegas is annoying when the tracks get combined AND all the clip video fx (like color correction) disappear. Seems like it Vegas should have left the clip FX alone OR left the tracks where they were and just performed the cuts. I personally would prefer that the clips would be left on the initial tracks so I could apply track level color correction (media color correction doesn't work if lighting conditions change inside of the same clip). |
I had to giggle at Ron's reply to Ed. Ron clearly wasn't aware that Ed wrote Excalibur. I'd be interested in hearing more about his take on all this.
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