Keeping Crop in "virtual camera" when using Multi-cam

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 1/11/2020, 3:06 AM

Scenario:

2-camera sports shoot
Wide-cam shot 4K
Setup in Vegas timeline, the wide track is duplicated (to track 3) and pushed 50% to give a "3rd camera perspective"

The Problem: when the three track's events are converted to takes on the multi-cam master-track, all FX (including pan/crop) are removed. Now camera 3 (pushed wide) looks identical to camera 1 (wide) since the pan/crop was removed.

My Temporary Workaround: To progress my work I just chose to use Excaliber's workflow instead for this one since it preserves all event FX.. but it'd be nice to know how to do this using the native Multi-cam workflow too.

The Question: Short of rendering the wide camera's media pushed and then dropping that into track 3, how else can this be done? Obviously track motion won't help out in this scenario either. *scratches head*

Comments

Musicvid wrote on 1/11/2020, 4:27 AM

Apply your effects at the Media level, not to tracks or events

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 1/11/2020, 8:39 AM

Talking about pan/crop here.. you know a way to do that on media (vs events)?

Former user wrote on 1/11/2020, 9:14 AM

Pan/Crop can't be achieve at media level. Your options are to either pre-render or nest.

Musicvid wrote on 1/11/2020, 9:28 AM

Sorry for the hasty read. I always render my pre-multicam tracks to new ones so I'll have ready backups in case I flub the edit. So for my workflow, that is where I would apply Pan/Crop, essentially the same as @Former user's first suggestion.

RedRob-CandlelightProdctns wrote on 1/11/2020, 11:03 AM

Pan/Crop can't be achieve at media level. Your options are to either pre-render or nest.

Nest? Can you elaborate?