Thanks, Rosebud!

I love this forum!

Thank you so much. you just saved me hours of redoing a project. I messed it up real bad, due to not knowing how to use multicam fully before I just jumped in and realized it was way to late for a simple undo. I am an audio guy, who plays a video editor when needed. so some of these functions are completely foreign to me.

Thanks again

Tom

I do a lot of multicam work and always save the project as XXXXPreMC.veg after all clip synching and before creating the mc track [and then saving as XXXX.veg]. Saved my ass on more than one occasion.

I do that also, I am a firm believer in project file "versioning" .

I do have the fallback version, which I will have to resort to as the script did not work as I hoped, It did work as advertised , it split up the multicam into individual tracks, but recombining them into multicam ignores all of the previous cuts.

oh well... I am still waiting for that brain to software interface, then I can really think about what I want the software to do.

Tom

but recombining them into multicam ignores all of the previous cuts.
Please, can you explain me more.
If I rebuild the multicam project, all previous cuts are here.

Thanks Rosebud,

The cuts are there, but only Camera 1 is "viewable" when playing back the project, meaning it no longer switches cameras after I rebuild the multicam track, the cuts are there but the video playback only shows Camera 1

I did notice that when I reverted to the non multicam that it "created" a blank Camera 1 track, I did not have a video track for C1 when I first made the multicam track, only aC2,C3, and C4.

Would that cause me to loose the "switching" after rebuilding the multicam track?

Tom

Ok, I see.
This the normal way how Vegas build the multicam Track.
I made this script to create PIP effect with several cameras, so generally I don’t need to revert to multicam track.
I can think to a specific script to rebuild the multicam track but I need to know more about your workflow.
Why do you need to revert to non multicam track ?

Thanks for helping with this.


Here is what I am doing: I am part of a production team that recorda audio and video for about about 10 symphony concerts a year. in various concert halls around town. We do live multi camera shoots, Normally I just take care of the audio for the CD and DVD surround mix, But on about 4 of the shows I do the video editing also.

My "method" this time ( I just upgraded from Vegas 5), was to take the 4 cameras import them, sync them, Tape 1 (or 4) of camera 1 was bad it had glitches and dropouts through out, I deleted it before I created the multi cam track, this means I don't have a Camera 1 in my multi cam set up for the first hour of the project. This is my confusion as to when I took the muti cam out of multi cam it created a "blank" video track .

The reason I wanted to revert to non multi cam in this instance, about 3/4 through editing this project I found one of my cameras was out of sync, with the other 3 and I needed to re-sync it.

I hope this make sense, I am not very good with the Video terms. I am learning as fast as I can, I know it is easier to get help if you ask the right question using the correct terminology.

Thanks

Tom

>The reason I wanted to revert to non multi cam in this instance, about 3/4 through editing this project I found one of my cameras was out of sync, with the other 3 and I needed to re-sync it. <

If your audio track is in sync, you can get the video to sync up. One way to achieve this would be to
1 - sync up the out-of-sync audio track with other 3 cams
2- make out-of-sync cam video, active take
3 - right click on event and >synchronize>by slipping.
This will slip the cam from the previous cut to the end and, hopefully in sysnc.

Hope that helps.

To ovoid out of sync issue, I never edit part longer than 8 minutes (and I assemble all the parts in a final project).
For you, a workaround is to remove the out of sync take, add a new track with the re-synced cam and use my script “Add New Take to Multicam project”.

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Hey @Rosebud -- am I hearing you have a collection of useful multi-cam scripts out there you've graciously made available to help us other Vegas users? I'd love to check out your magic :) We're trying to give the native Vegas multi-cam workflow a shot, vs the fantastic workflow provided by Excaliber.

Hey @RedRob-CandlelightProdctns

You tacked on to a 10 y/o thread.

Since Rosebud may be off enjoying his new sled, you will find most of the older scripts archived on the Scripting forum here:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-pro-forum/scripting/