Create 2 instances of the same media?

farss wrote on 8/17/2008, 6:36 AM
Can't see a way to do this. Here's why I want to.
In some marvel of organisation two camerapersons covered a football match. One shoots the match and the other shoots the presentations. In order to do a rough in camera edit they swap tapes back and forth, just to help the editor. Except one camera is 4:3 and the other 16:9!

All efforts to convince Vegas that clip 1 & 2 are 16:9 and event 3 is 4:3 fail, it's the same piece of media. I could make two copies of the media files but not too elegant. I have fixed the problem by putting the 4:3 clips onto their own track and using track pan / crop to fix the AR. Can anyone think of a better solution, two instances of the media would do it.

Bob.

Comments

fldave wrote on 8/17/2008, 7:30 AM
Nested Vegs? One veg for each piece of media, one 16x9 the other 4x3. Trim out the non-matching format in each if you want.

Then work with the veg files in your main project instead of individual clips.
ECB wrote on 8/17/2008, 7:35 AM
I am not sure this will do what you want but if the project is set to 16:9 click on the pan & crop for the 4:3 clip then click on the image and select match output aspect ratio.

Ed
DJPadre wrote on 8/17/2008, 7:46 AM
al i can think of is -

16:9 project

SPLIT the clips into tape change portions.. (literally scrub through.. unless Vidcap can scene detect properly)

Convert all 4:3 to 16:9 this SHOULDNT change the other parts of the clip, even iif they share the same name (the ones which are native16:9)

Copy and paste event atributes to all 4:3 material

This SHOULD work.. ive done it quite often when mixing DVX100 with DVX100a footage...