In the spirit of teaching and learning on the forum, here's something I did that seems obvious but wasn't, and which caused me no end of frustration.
The scene is midnight, on a wet and stormy night.
I've loaded the tapes from a two camera shoot into Vegas 4.0, synced up the audio and, going through the usual procedure prior to using Excalibur multi-cam wizard, I created a PnP file to use for cutting reference.
Now, as I begin inserting markers I realize that the tapes are slightly out of sync. So I slide the tape on track two slightly and -- nothing happens. The shots in the PnP don't change. So I slide some more. And some more. Still no change -- and still no sync. I tried again and again: no change.
After lots of cussing and a noticeable rise in blood pressure I go for a cup of coffee and think about what's going on. It finally dawns on me that the PnP is a rendered AVI file, and that nothing I did to the underlying tracks could change it. While this should have been obvious to me from the start, I let my frustration get in the way of solving the problem.
The solution: back to square one. Delete the PnP from the hard drive, sync the tapes, and render another AVI PnP.
The moral: thinking through to a solution beats butting heads with a problem and getting all bent out of shape by it.
Jack
The scene is midnight, on a wet and stormy night.
I've loaded the tapes from a two camera shoot into Vegas 4.0, synced up the audio and, going through the usual procedure prior to using Excalibur multi-cam wizard, I created a PnP file to use for cutting reference.
Now, as I begin inserting markers I realize that the tapes are slightly out of sync. So I slide the tape on track two slightly and -- nothing happens. The shots in the PnP don't change. So I slide some more. And some more. Still no change -- and still no sync. I tried again and again: no change.
After lots of cussing and a noticeable rise in blood pressure I go for a cup of coffee and think about what's going on. It finally dawns on me that the PnP is a rendered AVI file, and that nothing I did to the underlying tracks could change it. While this should have been obvious to me from the start, I let my frustration get in the way of solving the problem.
The solution: back to square one. Delete the PnP from the hard drive, sync the tapes, and render another AVI PnP.
The moral: thinking through to a solution beats butting heads with a problem and getting all bent out of shape by it.
Jack