My first time editing a full-blown wedding. Vegas offers a lot of flexibility, but how best to use it? Four cameras were present; first they are assembled and sync'd on the Timeline, itself time-offset to correspond to the clock time of the actual event (to simplify rough positioning of timecoded footage). Use Track Motion to put them into quadrants (quarters) of the screen. Sync them more accurately based on waveform or visual correspondence etc. Routine stuff so far...
But now it's time to edit...
For my normal fare, namely lectures and music events where most of the content must remain in place, time is preserved continuous (not fractured) and only a few unwanted bits need to be removed or one or two segments are moved in time as cutaways. For that all I need to do is sync everything then use Vegas's MultiCam, which works very effectively. Dead easy, relatively speaking.
However for a wedding there is a huge footage-to-target ratio, and massive scope for potential resequencing of cutaways etc. Hard to get the head around what is the best method to cope with this. Not sure that straightforward use of multicam will be sufficient.
I abandon any idea of whittling away at the above project as a single whole. I first copy it to trimmed-down sections for Church (arrivals, main ceremony, service, photos etc.) and for Reception (etc.). Then I copy the tracks and make a Vegas Multicam track and mute out the copied tracks (only needed as a safety measure). I group all the tracks so that when I cut or copy (events on) any track I cut and copy (corresponding events on) every track. Then for each section, I regard this project (just a synced set of footages relevant to that section) as a "pallete" from which I can pick and choose elements to go into a destination "real" project for that section.
For each section, I split out subsets of the multicam track (and, thanks to grouping, all related event copies) from the Pallette-Project then copy or drag them to the proper project where they will be abutted in sequence. So I will use the Palette-Project only like a big multi-track trimmer (which suggests a possible evolution of the Trimmer concept?).
Is this a typical method? Or is there a better one?
But now it's time to edit...
For my normal fare, namely lectures and music events where most of the content must remain in place, time is preserved continuous (not fractured) and only a few unwanted bits need to be removed or one or two segments are moved in time as cutaways. For that all I need to do is sync everything then use Vegas's MultiCam, which works very effectively. Dead easy, relatively speaking.
However for a wedding there is a huge footage-to-target ratio, and massive scope for potential resequencing of cutaways etc. Hard to get the head around what is the best method to cope with this. Not sure that straightforward use of multicam will be sufficient.
I abandon any idea of whittling away at the above project as a single whole. I first copy it to trimmed-down sections for Church (arrivals, main ceremony, service, photos etc.) and for Reception (etc.). Then I copy the tracks and make a Vegas Multicam track and mute out the copied tracks (only needed as a safety measure). I group all the tracks so that when I cut or copy (events on) any track I cut and copy (corresponding events on) every track. Then for each section, I regard this project (just a synced set of footages relevant to that section) as a "pallete" from which I can pick and choose elements to go into a destination "real" project for that section.
For each section, I split out subsets of the multicam track (and, thanks to grouping, all related event copies) from the Pallette-Project then copy or drag them to the proper project where they will be abutted in sequence. So I will use the Palette-Project only like a big multi-track trimmer (which suggests a possible evolution of the Trimmer concept?).
Is this a typical method? Or is there a better one?