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Tom Pauncz wrote on 7/11/2006, 9:20 PM
A quick and dirty way would be to put each clip on a separate track and use 'Track motion' to shrink and position each clip in the preview window. It's not ideal, but at least you can see both clips.

I am sure others will chime in with better ways to do this including scripts and plugins from VASST.

Cheers,
Tom
Requiem_ad wrote on 7/11/2006, 9:22 PM
I will try it, thank you very much for the quick reply,
Peace and
Cheers
Grazie wrote on 7/11/2006, 11:11 PM
"want to crossfade in and out"

I think the clue for me to what you MAY wish to do is to establish just WHERE you want to edit between your events from 2 cameras - yes?

Well, overlap the 2 events, locate this position with your mouse, hold down Ctrl+ALT - the mouse cursor should change to a doubled ended arrow within a box. Now when you hold down the left mouse button and move left and right you will see each a crossover points of the 2 events. If this is what you want then it can make for faster and more logical edits. Of course you DON'T need to have these overlapped either. Just BUTT each event together and the same CTRL+ALT sequence will work as well. Note that if you go beyond the time length of any of the 2 Events, you will get the events starting to "repeat". You are made aware of this by a tiny "notch" appearing on the top most edge of that Event that is being repeated.

I regularly make use of this easy feature.

I should make you aware of 2 multicam plugins that I know of. Excalibur by Edward Troxel and VASST's: UltimateS 2.0 and InfinitiCam.
Grazie wrote on 7/12/2006, 5:09 AM
I didn't realise that they don't even have to be actually touching at all! Even if there is a BIG gap between, as long as you have the mouse pointer over at least one end of the 2 events.

Didn't know that.


JohnnyRoy wrote on 7/12/2006, 9:35 AM
> I should make you aware of 2 multicam plugins that I know of. Excalibur by Edward Troxel and VASST's: UltimateS 2.0 and InfinitiCam.

Hmmm... that looks like 3 multicam plug-ins to me. ;-)

...and a fourth would be DoubleTake from VASST which is FREE and is perfect for two camera editing. It will let you see both cameras at once and switch between them and then build a master track of only the cameras you want.

~jr
Jay-Hancock wrote on 7/12/2006, 9:43 AM
I haven't tried these plugins. WIll some of them simply edit the automation envelopes of individual tracks instead of creating a master track with cuts?
jetdv wrote on 7/12/2006, 11:08 AM
Excalibur, Ultimate S, Double Take, and Infiniti cam all make a Master Track. If you want to use envelopes instead, at this point you will need to do that manually. To me, the Master Track approach makes the most sense.

For a look at various ways multi-cam can be done, you might want to take a look at Vol 1 #9 of my newsletters which presents multiple ways to accomplish this task including the use of Composite Envelopes.
Jay-Hancock wrote on 7/12/2006, 11:19 AM
Thanks, Ed. I'll be sure to check it out, as I need to learn these things more.

One of the reasons I was thinking to use this approach (envelopes vs. master track) is to apply different FXs (such as color correction schemes) to the different cam clips. But I guess it could be done by applying the FXs to the media instead of the tracks. (It can also be done with keyframes, but that could get a bit tedious for switching back and forth).

I know you guys have already "been there done that" so I'll read your newsletters and other forum posts.

Thanks,

Jay
jetdv wrote on 7/12/2006, 1:00 PM
Yes, apply the FX to the Events on the timeline or the Media Pool instead of the Track Header. This will allow them to be retained when copied to the master track.