multi-cam and HDV -- any traps?

marks27 wrote on 10/30/2008, 12:28 AM

I am about to undertake a 3 camera dance concert shoot ( 3 x Sony Z1's). There will be two performances, shooting both, but the video will most likely be comprised mostly of only one performance.

I am cool with the multi-cam, but I have not edited HDV before.

I am running on a quad core (AMD Phenom), XP, 2Gb ram, plenty of disk space and several drives.

Just wondering if people have any tips, tricks or caveats in terms of the workflow and post in general.

All info gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

marks

Comments

jrazz wrote on 10/30/2008, 6:24 AM

I always save a seperate Veg file before I turn on multicam and I make sure I do not include the audio tracks in the list of tracks to be edited in multicam mode.

I am sure you have your workflow down pat. As for differences between HD and SD as far as it relates to multicam, there is no difference. You do have the advantage of no recompression if you do not add anything (or adjust anything on) to the footage.

j razz

baysidebas wrote on 10/30/2008, 8:33 AM

"I always save a seperate Veg file before I turn on multicam"

This absolute requirement has saved my ass on more than one occasion.

baysidebas wrote on 10/30/2008, 10:42 AM

Something to keep in mind is that you should do all your color/exposure matching at the media level, not on the timeline, as assembling the multicam track will result in the loss of all those FX created on the clips on the timeline. In fact any video FX , whether event or track, applied on the timeline before multicam will be lost,. That's where saving a pre-multicam veg is cheap insurance.

marks27 wrote on 10/30/2008, 4:52 PM

Sounds like the workflow is basically the same as SD.

Thanks all for your feedback.

Ciao,

marks

P.S. Yes, I do indeed keep a master .veg of the aligned but not multi-cam'ed tracks. Saved my bacon more than once as well.