Multicam & color fx

willlisub wrote on 11/25/2012, 10:49 AM
Looking for some advice on 2 items.

Been doing some 2 camera multicam editing lately. Get the rough out to the client with cuts with minimal color correction. Then back for final and sometimes some more color correction tweaking.

I generally have to do 1 or 2 color fx to each clip. Right now, I do one, then copy and paste tributes on the clips from that camera for that section. Manual and time consuming.

Also, is there a 1 shot method to grab the outpoint of the outgoing clip and the pinpoint of the incoming clip and move them together. Right now, I move the out point then hit ripple edit..... (alt-ctrl-f). Seem to me I've either forgotten or never new if there was a way to grab both out and inpoint and move them...

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musicvid10 wrote on 11/25/2012, 11:20 AM
Frederic Baumann's color match plugins for Vegas are pretty good . . .
http://www.fbmn-software.com/en/index.html

willlisub wrote on 11/25/2012, 11:29 AM
Thanks. I'm really looking for shortcuts in technique. I don't have problems manually color correcting. It's applying 2-3 color fx quickly to multiple cuts after a clip has been chopped up into 10-20 smaller clips.....

Right now I do that by making a clip the way I want, copy it, and the ctrl clicking on 2-10 other clips and then paste event attributes on to them. If those new clips already have fx on them, they have to be deleted first. Very manual and labor intensive, but it works for me... Just looking for quicker/easier way....


musicvid10 wrote on 11/25/2012, 11:31 AM
Hint: If you apply your FX at the Project Media level they stick throughout your project.
Arthur.S wrote on 11/25/2012, 1:17 PM
Copy/Paste events changed at V11 I think. From then it REPLACES everything. V9 (I think) ADDS to. Would be nice to have a choice eh? Probably the most requested feature. What I used to do with V9. Copy/Paste a clip with no effects, then do same with the clip you really want to copy. Have you tried the normal select one clip, SHIFT select last clip? You could also put them on another track, right click/select events to end.

I think what you want on the second question is: Make sure ripple is on, select clip, then 9 on the keyboard to select end of clip, (or 7 for beginning) Tap 6 to trim. Everything else will move from the right. Move on to front edge of next clip by tapping the 9 key again. 4 to trim. And so on.
willlisub wrote on 11/27/2012, 10:41 AM
Musicvid....
I tired putting putting the fx in the project window, but that didn't work. I'm guessing you have to do that before the multicam edit.

My issue is I don't color correct till the end. Maybe I should change my work flow, but I really like waiting till the middle or end of the edit and have looked at the footage a few times before I have at the color work.

Thanks all for the advice.....
musicvid10 wrote on 11/27/2012, 10:50 AM
" I'm guessing you have to do that before the multicam edit."

No.

When you apply Effects at the Project Media level, they affect the entire media throughout your Project. To see the effects in the Preview Window, uncheck "Enable Multicam Editing" to restore it to Timeline View. Not rocket science.

You can apply effects to the Media, Track, Event, or Output, or a combination.
Keyframing can be accomplished at any one of these levels.
So that is a lot more flexibility than you or anyone needs.
Best of luck.
Arthur.S wrote on 11/27/2012, 12:38 PM
"My issue is I don't color correct till the end." Neither do I...ever. Try reading through again Willisub, it's not that difficult! After your initial MC edit do you 'lay clips back on original tracks' ? You may see things clearer then.