Dual Camera Editing

jjyoung wrote on 5/4/2001, 3:59 PM
I have a job I'm doing where I have 2 camera views of the
same scene, from which I need to fade back and forth. I
originally put the events on two different tracks and used
compositing to fade back and forth, but it seems that VV
takes this to mean that all of the events need to be
recompressed during rendering, instead of only rendering
the transition regions, yielding less than optimum results.

I originally put the events on separated tracks so that I
could line them up, then group them together, so they would
be synchronous in time (and audio).

If I put Camera 1 on a track and paste in pieces of camera
2 from the Trimmer, I get a much better end product, but
it's a real pain because I have to manually synchronize
each piece of Camera 2 with Camera 1.

What I'd really like to do is to put Camera 1 on the A-roll
and Camera 2 on the B-roll and put transitions in to fade
back back and forth, so that only the transitions need to
be rendered, but I can't figure out how to do this.

Any suggestions? Or is there a better way to do this that
hasn't occurred to me?

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 5/4/2001, 4:22 PM
Pretty easy to master with a little practice:

1) Line up your two tracks of video (camera 1, 2)

2)Turn off ripple, select the video you want to remove in
the top track as you play(i=in, o=out), hit "s" to split,
and then delete that new event created by the split -video
will "show through" from the track underneath.

3) You can set the "Fade edge of video events" editing pref
to add a default fade handle-

4)If there are fades on the top track's events, only thse
top track's video will be recompressed.

jjyoung wrote on 5/7/2001, 3:55 PM
Thanks. I tried it and it's MUCH easier than what I've
been trying to do.