Editing 2 films of same event

Antlers wrote on 3/15/2004, 10:17 AM

I have 2 films from separate cameras (!) and am trying to edit out the jack-in-a-box of the photographer who bobs up from side to side. is it feasible and how to edit both films but only one sound track? I have edited them separately into their own .vf file and have tried unsuccessfully to import one withoput its sound track but have failed miserably - any answers please?

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IanG wrote on 3/15/2004, 11:14 AM

If you've already done some editing you can open 3 instances of MS and drag and drop between them. By switching off event grouping you can move the audio and video separately.

Ian G.

Antlers wrote on 3/16/2004, 10:03 AM

Sorry, should have said I am using VideoFactory and it does not seem to want to open twice concurrently.

tjw wrote on 3/16/2004, 10:33 AM

I have done something similar. I recorded my sons band playing with two cameras, one stationary on a tripod and I carried the other around. I then put the stationary camera video on the bottom track and the handheld on the upper track. I moved the sound track of the handheld camera to a lower audio track and synced up the two using the audio track, then mute the audio track you don't want. I then just cut away what I didn't want on the handheld video (top video track) adding fade ins and outs. You could put the head pop up track on the upper track and then remove the parts where the head popped up.

Antlers wrote on 3/22/2004, 9:08 AM

Thanks very much - worked brilliantly - especially as I found variable "opacity" and could shade both streams together before editing and inserting subtitles where the volume of wedding ceremony was difficult to hear. Thanks again
Keith

ahhyeah wrote on 4/14/2004, 7:20 PM

Can you tell me how you did this exacly? where the settings are for opacity? I have two different nights of a musical recored from two different angles. I've got the videos synced and the best sound from the second. But I can't figure out how to fade back and forth. Please help!

IanG wrote on 4/15/2004, 12:50 AM

You can drag the top of a clip up and down to adjust its transparency. Dragging the top corners in and out adjusts the fade in / out. There's a performance hit if you leave stuff around with 100% transparency, so it's best to cut it out before you render.

Ian G.

sre7 wrote on 4/15/2004, 6:14 PM

IanG....

Could you please explain what you mean by your statement:

"There's a performance hit if you leave stuff around with 100% transparency, so it's best to cut it out before you render."

I don't quite follow what you are indicating.

Thx for any and all help.

Steve

IanG wrote on 4/16/2004, 2:09 AM

If MS has to adjust the transparency of a clip to 100% there's more work involved than if the clip simply wasn't there. There was some discussion about this in this topic.

Ian G.

Antlers wrote on 5/11/2004, 8:22 AM

Don't know if this is too late but I thought the topic was ended.
When you have two video clips on time line only shows if you do not reduce the opacity of one of them. If you hover the mouse over the top edge of the clip and when "opacity" shows drag it down. One clip Clip fades with the other showing through to an extent, you can choose the one you want to include, delete the other and drag the opacity up again. With the sound from both you can match the clips with the wave form but again delete the one you don't want. Come back again if I can help more.