3 camera shoot - best editing workflow???

Kevin Mc wrote on 10/25/2012, 3:34 PM

I just came from a seminar that I shot using 3 cameras - all shooting MTS AVCHD files. Each camera needed some slight color correction before I enabled Multicamera mode in Vegas 12. Now all three takes are in one timeline ready for multicamera editing.

My Problems/Questions:

Due to there being three separate color correctors running - my computer is a bit jerky while editing (too much at times). Should I render these tracks to uncompressed AVIs first (or some other format - please advise)? The seminar was 1 hour and 40 minutes long, making the video tracks very long as well. Transcoding would take forever.... Or is it possible to disable track effects from the three separate, but now combined tracks, until after I complete my multicamera editing? If so - how can this be done?

Any other advise anyone may want to give for editing together a 3 camera shoot would be very welcome!

Thank you!!

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 10/28/2012, 1:05 AM

If you applied the effects to the clips in the media pool (rather than the tracks they were each on) you could disable the effect there and it would then be independent of how they are treated on the multicamera track. Might be too late now to do that. You can re-expand the tracks though.

Kevin Mc wrote on 10/29/2012, 3:21 PM

Thanks for the info - that is how I will proceed. I discovered that when combining the tracks into a mulicam track - all effects are lost anyway. I'll see if using the media pool fixes this issue.

I am still wondering if transcoding these to another format would relieve my computer a bit during editing?? The computer is a Quad Core 2.83GHz X 4 with 8GB RAM. It runs well on most edits, but having the three-camera MTS files in the timeline seem to be making it behave a bit jerky. Can anyone advise on this? I don't want to lose quality - obviously :)...

cold ones wrote on 10/29/2012, 3:51 PM

Liam Vegas is on the money---apply Media FX to each camera, but bypass them while you're editing. (Although, as you noted, their effects don't show up in Multicam Mode anyway, so I'm not sure if they affect playback in that mode.)

Also, have you tried right-clicking on the files in the Project Media window and selecting "Create Video Proxy"? I haven't used it yet, but these proxies are supposed to improve playback performance. Of course, they'll take time & hard drive space to work.

When it's time to render out and you leave the Multicam Mode, turn the Media FX back on for each file (in the Project Media window) and Vegas is supposed to automatically render from the original, non-proxy source for highest quality.

logiquem wrote on 10/29/2012, 4:24 PM

What i do personally (not very complicated or long...):

Cut everything in MT mode, then create 2 new empty tracks (1 per cam).

Make sure you display the take name on the events.

Just select for example all the cam 1 events on the MT editing track and use the num pad "2" to move them in an upper tr. Do the same for the cam 2. Then adjust your fx on each tr.

Hope this help...