How to unsplit events with track motion?

jbrawn wrote on 2/15/2005, 11:05 PM

I've got a few 62 minute events (shot until the tape ran out) from a 110 minute, multi-camera shoot. The cameras shot 4:3, and my output is 16:9 letterbox. I used track motion throughout the events to keep the heads the right distance from the top of the letterbox. Then I split the events into chunks and assembled the chunks onto a "master" track. So far, so good.

I got halfway through and decided to give Excalibur 3.0 a try. Excalibur seems to prefer that I eliminate all the splits I did manually in order to use the "sync wizard" and "multi-cam wizard". However, when I used Excalibur's "Unsplit Wizard" to reassemble my original events, it lost all the track motion.

I have several backups of my .veg file. I can go back to the one where all my track motion is complete, but then I lose a huge amount of audio work on my 20 tracks of audio. I can also go back to just before I did the "Unsplit" (with all my audio work intact.)

Here are my questions:

1) Is there a way to "unsplit" a video event without losing track motion keyframes? (Long after "undo" has forgotten all about the split).

2) Is it possible to copy entire tracks of audio including volume, fx chain and surround panning envelopes/keyframes, from one .veg file to another?

Thanks in advance - I'm heading to bed, confident that there will be new possibilities for me when I check this forum in the morning!

Thanks,

John.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 2/16/2005, 2:46 AM

In regards to #1, track motion is based on the track level, not the event level. You should be able to do anything you want with the events without affecting the track motion settings. If indeed your track consists of one long single event that has been split, simply delete all but the first event, then drag the right edge of that first event out to where it originally ended. With ripple editing off this should leave all track motion keyframes untouched.

jetdv wrote on 2/16/2005, 7:48 AM

Try turning off "Lock Envelopes To Events" and then running the Unsplit Wizard.

jbrawn wrote on 2/16/2005, 10:49 AM

Hi Folks,

Thanks for the replies. I shouldn't be allowed to post anything late at night!

I didn't use track motion, I used event pan and crop. This split correctly into multiple events, and allowed me to move an event from one track to another without losing the pan and crop keyframes.

Now is there a way to take the two events that were created when I split an event, merge them together again, and retain the event pan and crop information?

And yet another question, can you take a list of markers from one veg file and load it into another veg file?

Thanks again for the responses!

John.

jetdv wrote on 2/16/2005, 12:10 PM

Now is there a way to take the two events that were created when I split an event, merge them together again, and retain the event pan and crop information?

Not without copying a pasting a lot of keyframes into the exact right positions.

And yet another question, can you take a list of markers from one veg file and load it into another veg file?

Sure. Try copying an pasting from the View - Edit Details screen.