Here's our new Vegas forum, with your host Edward Troxel (welcome to the podium, Edward). You asked for a Vegas-specific board -- you got it -- we aim to please here at DV Info. Enjoy,

Wahey

Awesome! Forget hanging chads and the election of 2000... your votes actually count here at DVI!

Can't think of a better guy to run it than Edward.

Thanks Chris, and everyone else who had a part in making a forum just for Vegas! Another thanks goes out to Trox for taking the time to be moderator...how perfect is that!

Speaking of moderator, you can delete my other post on here- I sorta jumped the gun when I saw the new forum up and started another thank-you post. Man, I'm putting you to work already!

YAY!!!!!!!!!!

sweet. this should be good.

Rob:D

Andrew- I heard august 3rd. I'm waiting patiently as well....

Outstanding! Thanks, Chris.

Thanks Chris. This is really great !

Nick

Oh no - another Vegas Forum! When am I gonna get time to do my WORK!!!

Edward, nice one! - Excalibur Rules OKAY!

Thanks Chris,

Grazie

Great Chris, very happy with your decision.

<<<-- Originally posted by Graham Bernard : Oh no - another Vegas Forum! When am I gonna get time to do my WORK!!!

Grazie -->>>

What?!?!? You're supposed to work???? I thought the goal was to play with Vegas all day!

<<<-- Originally posted by Edward Troxel : <<<-- Originally posted by Graham Bernard : Oh no - another Vegas Forum! When am I gonna get time to do my WORK!!!

Grazie -->>>

What?!?!? You're supposed to work???? I thought the goal was to play with Vegas all day! -->>>

Productivity? Pssssh. I just like to click the buttons.


ps that Vegas book is now listed at Chapters as 'unavailable for purchase'...

And thanks, Edward, for being the moderator.

By the way, Edward. . . nice name! :)


Edward Fiebke, RN

I like it! (I just don't like any of the shortened versions - to my friends, I'm Edward)

OK enough thanks (Thanks Chris-by the way),

Edward,

Can you do a short descrip of the Multicam thing. Does it cut and assemble tracks automatically or what? Is it limited to four cameras?

Tery

There are two multi-cam products currently available and both offer:
1) Assistance with syncing
2) Auto creation of PIP'd view
3) Camera buttons for easy switching of cameras via the toolbar, keypresses, or other devices such as the ShuttlePro.
4) Live switching on Vegas 6.0b
5) Tally system showing which camera is currently active
6) Auto updating of tallys should a marker be moved.

Ultimate S 2 from VASST does the above for up to 4 cameras.

Excalibur 4.5 at www.jetdv.com/excalibur does the above with presets for up to 25 cameras.

Naturally both do a little more than is listed above and each does a couple of things the other doesn't. For example, Ultimate S is less restrictive in the track naming convention and will allow moving of the markers after the master track is created and then will readjust the master track to match.

Excalibur does want specific names (i.e. 1 for camera 1, 2 for camera 2...) and, instead, adds all alternate angles as Takes so you can easily change any segment to a different angle after the fact. Plus edits can be easily slipped by holding down the ALT key and using the mouse.

A couple of additional features in Excalibur are that any crossfade can be of a specified length. You can use the default length (which you can specify) or specify an override length. Plus any transition can be assigned to any crossfade. Another cool feature is that the tally will actually dissolve the same length as the specified crossfade on playback giving you a visual indication of the length of the dissolve.

For more information, you might want to look at Vol 1 #9, Vol 2 #2, Vol 2 #7, and Vol 3 #1 of my newsletter.