This isn't exactly a scripting question, but this might be the right crowd to bounce this idea off of.
I am wondering if anyone has heard of a way to generate an EDL from a live switcher? My church has a Panasonic WJ-MX50 with an RS232 comm port. I still haven't found an answer whether or not the switcher sends a signal or only receives it for control.
But let's say for a moment that it does send a control signal out of the switcher that gives info on what source it's on at any given time, type of wipe pattern, etc, etc, etc.
What I hope to accomplish is this: I do a live mix of three camcorders anywhere from 100-200 feet away. I use dual-coax video lines for my S-Video signal, which decreases the signal loss, but I still get a large amount. What I want to do is do a live switch, record video in each of the camcorders, then "magically" take the switching that I did directly into Vegas Video so I can do the exact same switching in post. If I could somehow develop a program that would take the output from the switcher and convert it into even a simplified an EDL, that would be terrific. Does anyone know of such a solution?
Any other ideas to help me out here? I can live (and have lived) with the degraded signal... just recorded the switched video, but I would love to be able to tweak the switching (in case I made a mistake) and also have the benefit of having a much better video source from recording in the cameras.
I am wondering if anyone has heard of a way to generate an EDL from a live switcher? My church has a Panasonic WJ-MX50 with an RS232 comm port. I still haven't found an answer whether or not the switcher sends a signal or only receives it for control.
But let's say for a moment that it does send a control signal out of the switcher that gives info on what source it's on at any given time, type of wipe pattern, etc, etc, etc.
What I hope to accomplish is this: I do a live mix of three camcorders anywhere from 100-200 feet away. I use dual-coax video lines for my S-Video signal, which decreases the signal loss, but I still get a large amount. What I want to do is do a live switch, record video in each of the camcorders, then "magically" take the switching that I did directly into Vegas Video so I can do the exact same switching in post. If I could somehow develop a program that would take the output from the switcher and convert it into even a simplified an EDL, that would be terrific. Does anyone know of such a solution?
Any other ideas to help me out here? I can live (and have lived) with the degraded signal... just recorded the switched video, but I would love to be able to tweak the switching (in case I made a mistake) and also have the benefit of having a much better video source from recording in the cameras.