How to render Multicamera editing view

Harrison H wrote on 1/10/2009, 11:00 PM

I have a project in 8.0c that involves 7 video tracks. I have them set up for multicam editing. So, when I have Enable Multicamera Editing turned on, the preview window shows a grid of the various video tracks, in what I'd call "Brady Bunch" mode because it resembles the opening credits of that show.

I'd like to render a file of a selected region that displays all of the tracks in this grid mode, rather than just the selected cuts. What I'm trying to do is render a segment of the project with all camera angles into a single file (with a relatively low bit rate) so that I can FTP this to a colleague and ask for help in artistic direction, without having to send them all of the original media clips and the project file (even assuming he also had Vegas).

I don't see any way to do this directly. The closest option can figure out is to take an archive of the project just before I created the multicam track and create an elaborate PIP/TrackMotion operation to approximate the multicam preview, but I'm hoping there is an easier way. Any ideas?

Comments

ushere wrote on 1/10/2009, 11:28 PM

shoot the screen?

TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/11/2009, 5:16 AM

do a video wall.

jetdv wrote on 1/11/2009, 5:45 AM

Using the script multi-cam options, this is a piece of cake. The script versions leave the original tracks alone and simply use Track Motion or Pan/Crop to create the PIP view. This can easily be rendered into the view you're wanting.

Rosebud wrote on 1/11/2009, 11:34 AM

There is a video grid CS script in the VegasPro8 script SDK :



/**

 * This script creates video tracks whose track motion is preset to

 * create a "Brady Bunch"-style grid.

 *

 * Revision Date: Jul 09, 2007.

 **/



using System;

using Sony.Vegas;



public class EntryPoint

{

    // modifiy these variable to change to dimentions of the grid

    int TracksX = 3;

    int TracksY = 3;

    

    public void FromVegas(Vegas vegas)

    {

        int width = vegas.Project.Video.Width;

        int height = vegas.Project.Video.Height;

        int trackWidth = width / TracksX;

        int trackHeight = height / TracksY;

        int startX = -width/2 + trackWidth/2;

        int startY = height/2 - trackHeight/2;

        int trackIndex = 0;

        for (int y = 0; y < TracksY; y++) {

            for (int x = 0; x < TracksX; x++) {

                VideoTrack track = new VideoTrack(trackIndex++);

                vegas.Project.Tracks.Add(track);

                TrackMotionKeyframe mkf = track.TrackMotion.MotionKeyframes[0];

                mkf.Width = trackWidth;

                mkf.Height = trackHeight;

                mkf.PositionX = startX + (x*trackWidth);

                mkf.PositionY = startY - (y*trackHeight);

            }

        }

    }

}