Color coding individual clips

Melachrino wrote on 2/25/2012, 12:04 PM

Is there a way in Vegas Pro 10 (or 9) to color code individual clips on the timeline to facilitate editing and re-ordering. Changing the track color is no help for this purpose.

I now use 2 cameras and several takes with the intent of grabbing the best sections and piecing them together into one, clean, smooth movie. Since they involve music, I post synchronize the different angles and takes manually, not hard to do, then edit and clean each piece and from which I select (via stacked muting or fading) the best required clips.

While with patience and memory excersize I can achieve the desired results, it seems that there must be a better way and perhaps color coding the desired clips may help a lot.

Comments

altarvic wrote on 2/25/2012, 1:09 PM

There is a multicam feature in Vegas that can help you to work with your clips.
Also consider using PluralEyes for automatic synchronization

Grazie wrote on 2/25/2012, 1:10 PM

Been using Vegas Multicam for the past week, and it suits me very well. Give it a go.

G

farss wrote on 2/25/2012, 1:55 PM

Multiple takes using multiple cameras of a musical item. I assume you're using the camera audio as well.
i cannot think of any way to ease the pain. Unless the performers are genlocked I cannot think of any way to ease the pain. I would put each cameras and take's sound and vision on its own track and using the labels in the track header so you know where it came from but even that, probably not much help. I also doubt a colored border for each event is going to help, not enough colors. A tally overlay might help but unfortunately Vegas cannot do text as a plugin, if it did you could apply the plug to the project media and when editing was done remove it.

My best advice would be firstly to use a standalone recorder / mixer and mic the performers fully. Then you have a master audio track for each take. That would avoid having to edit / mix sound AND vision.

Bob.

Melachrino wrote on 2/25/2012, 2:17 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try Vegas Multicam and see if it helps my situation.
I have used genlock before but only in professional studios and not in the present venues. Also, todays digital sound recording on camera is quite good. maybe not optimum, but with care they provide very useable results.

I am now trying Markers and they do "ease the pain" a little ...
Thanks again.