combine video from two cameras angles

videomom2 wrote on 9/25/2010, 8:50 PM

Has anyone used more then one camera for the same event and then used only the audio from one camera and combine into one dvd. I want to use the camera that was closest to the object for the sound and some video from this camera also. I also want to fade in some video from a different angle. Not sure how to do this and keep the audio sinked.

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KenJ62 wrote on 9/25/2010, 10:04 PM

Yes, last spring I used three HV20 camcorders during a field interview. We had one camera on each person and one in the middle showing both (2 shot). I used the technique listed here with VMS9 and it worked very well.

Regarding audio 'synch' you can zoom in far enough on the timeline to match the audio waveforms. Do that first before any other editing.

MSmart wrote on 9/25/2010, 11:47 PM

Hmm.... composite level, I've never tried that but will have to check it out.

Briefly, what I do is sync the tracks then ungroup the audio tracks. I split the video tracks where needed then delete what I don't want allowing what's underneath to show. I mute the audio track that I don't want then render. Ungrouping the audio tracks prevents the deleted parts of the video from deleting the audio as well.

To smoothly transition between video tracks, I drag the top corners of the top video track in to create a fade transition.

jetdv wrote on 9/26/2010, 5:10 AM

Take a look at Vol 1 #9 of my newsletters. It explains several ways of doing multi-cam edits:

http://www.jetdv.com/vegas/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17

MSmart wrote on 9/26/2010, 10:12 AM

I took a quick at Composite Level, I think I'll stick to splitting and deleting for now which is how Ed (jetdv) explains it in his newsletter.

@videomom, here is a previous thread discussing multi-cam editing:

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=12&MessageID=635337

videomom2 wrote on 10/15/2010, 3:08 PM

Thanks everyone for your help I am still trying to finish up the edit. Have learned much just from this one project alone.