This is the first time I've had to do any serious editing, mostly I'm blessed, either it's just triming or large chunks of stuff, concerts, interviews even multicam no problem. This project is shaping up to be a nightmare and Vegas isn't doing much to ease the pain which is kind of frustrating. Maybe I've missed the obvious or maybe not. Here's the deal (and it wasn't shot by me which doesn't help):
Started with 7 hours of HDV, just ingested it all on a per tape basis and overnight rendered to CF DI for ease of editing. All went well thanks to Peachrock. Now over 2 hours of that footage is of a very messy nature that needs serious cutting. The event is a hill climb for cars, around 20 of them. Each car in turn does 2 circuits. Then sometime later in the day they repeat this three times but in a different sequence.
Each 'run' was shot from a different position on the track and the aim is to cut it so it looks like a single run shot multicam. There might be some continuity issues but that's yet to be seen.
The task that is causing me some grief is going through the footage as easily as possible to find all the bits that belong to each car and organising them logically before I start doing the actual cutting. I'd have thought this a piece of cake but not so it seems.
Here's what I've tried. Open the 1 hour clip in the trimmer, mark in / out for first car, first run. What I'd like to do is add that to a media bin, NOT the T/L, you'll see why. If it goes into the media bin I get a thumbnail which makes it very easy to identify the same car from the next run / camera position and I could label each clip / event in the bin logically "car 01-01, car 01-02" etc. Except from what I can see reading the documentation I cannot do this, only clips go into bins.
OK, I think, I can create sub clips, that'll work. No it dont. As I discovered sub clips are just clips, put them on the T/L and I cannot extend them. Why does that matter, well you see most of the shots start with the car out of frame and I'll possibly need them that way but I want to add the event / clip to the bin trimmed so the thumbnail shows the car in frame so I retain the visual clue.
So I guess what I'd really like to be able to do is in effect add events to the bins and name them. Hope that makes sense to anyone reading this.
Now I suspect that the now functional Media Manager might be the answer to my prayers, I was tempted to give it a whirl but no doubt there's some learning involved and I really cannot afford to spend time going down blind alleys on this job. I've been able to make progress on this job by using one track per car to organise my events if that makes any sense, a bit crude and more tedious than it should be.
Bob.
Started with 7 hours of HDV, just ingested it all on a per tape basis and overnight rendered to CF DI for ease of editing. All went well thanks to Peachrock. Now over 2 hours of that footage is of a very messy nature that needs serious cutting. The event is a hill climb for cars, around 20 of them. Each car in turn does 2 circuits. Then sometime later in the day they repeat this three times but in a different sequence.
Each 'run' was shot from a different position on the track and the aim is to cut it so it looks like a single run shot multicam. There might be some continuity issues but that's yet to be seen.
The task that is causing me some grief is going through the footage as easily as possible to find all the bits that belong to each car and organising them logically before I start doing the actual cutting. I'd have thought this a piece of cake but not so it seems.
Here's what I've tried. Open the 1 hour clip in the trimmer, mark in / out for first car, first run. What I'd like to do is add that to a media bin, NOT the T/L, you'll see why. If it goes into the media bin I get a thumbnail which makes it very easy to identify the same car from the next run / camera position and I could label each clip / event in the bin logically "car 01-01, car 01-02" etc. Except from what I can see reading the documentation I cannot do this, only clips go into bins.
OK, I think, I can create sub clips, that'll work. No it dont. As I discovered sub clips are just clips, put them on the T/L and I cannot extend them. Why does that matter, well you see most of the shots start with the car out of frame and I'll possibly need them that way but I want to add the event / clip to the bin trimmed so the thumbnail shows the car in frame so I retain the visual clue.
So I guess what I'd really like to be able to do is in effect add events to the bins and name them. Hope that makes sense to anyone reading this.
Now I suspect that the now functional Media Manager might be the answer to my prayers, I was tempted to give it a whirl but no doubt there's some learning involved and I really cannot afford to spend time going down blind alleys on this job. I've been able to make progress on this job by using one track per car to organise my events if that makes any sense, a bit crude and more tedious than it should be.
Bob.