Adding another track to multicamera combined track

arik wrote on 3/15/2018, 12:50 PM

Hi mates,

I've edited quite a big part of a theatre performance video when the client told me he discovered he forgot to send me a footage from one more camera. So, I've got a multicam track, already cut in zillion places, which was created from 3 cameras footage, and I'm adding the 4th camera to this combined track. Then, in multicamera editing mode, as soon as I select camera 4 at any given point, all the following cuts get also switched to camera 4. Obviously, this way I lose hours of my previous work, so, for now, I just roll back this action. It seems to be a glitch. But how do I move ahead with this, what the workaround would be?

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OldSmoke wrote on 3/15/2018, 1:28 PM

How did you add the 4 camera/track to the already made multicam track?

arik wrote on 3/16/2018, 1:02 AM

I do "Expand to multiple tracks", then I select 4 tracks and create a new multicam track. If after that I expand to multiple tracks again, I see that the 4-th camera track is cut properly, in the same points as all other cameras, but when in multicamera editing mode I switch at least one clip to this newly added camera, all the following clips also get switched to camera4.

Former user wrote on 3/16/2018, 10:55 PM

It is like starting from scratch. The best way would be to add the 4th track and make your changes in the expanded mode.

OldSmoke wrote on 3/17/2018, 6:09 AM

The reason I asked is, that I have never done it before successfully and I am not sure if Vegas is actually designed to do it. There two ways I can think of doing it.

1. Expand the multicam track, first save a copy of the project, but when you expand it back do not keep the muted sections. This will give you 3 tracks with cut events on each. Add the 4th camera and combine all to a multicam track again.

2. Put the 4th camera on a track below the multicam track and change opacity on the multicam cuts/events where you need the 4th camera to 0.

Both are not “clean” but should give what you need without redoing the whole project.