I’ve been thinking of ways to improve multicam editing with vegas using TAKES and came up with a workflow that seems ideal, but pretty elaborate, so I’m curious if a script could be written for it.
Let’s say there are four camera’s and one DAT track. During recording everything was synced with a clapperboard. To edit I first make a LIBRARY-project with the tracks (Video and Audio):
MASTER
CAM1
CAM2
CAM3
CAM4
DAT
I import the clips in the appropriate tracks (not using MASTER yet) and synchronize them manually using the wave-peaks of the clapperboard. On every scene I put a timeline-region.starting with the clap and ending when the recording-take stopped
Now for the part that I’d like scripted:
I copy CAM1 to MASTER
I select the region 1 in the Timeline (the first scene), rightclick on the clip within that region on CAM2 and open it in the trimmer, right-drag the selection (Video and Audio) from the trimmer to the clip in the Mastertrack and choose Add As Takes. Then I do the same for clip 3 and 4. Finally I add the DAT selection as an Audiotake to the masterclip in the same way.
Then I go on to the next region and do the same thing until all regions are done.
Here the script ends.
I now have all the material as grouped-clips (as they call it in Avid I think) on the mastertrack. Selecting all the audio from the master and pressing "T" a few times I can make sure that MasterAudio is allways the DAT.
Using TrackMotion I make CAM1 appear upper-left, CAM2 upper-right, Cam3 down-left, and CAM4 down-right, so I can view them all in one. By soloing or muting the Mastertrack I can view a clip full-frame.
To edit I mute and select the masterclip and press Play. If I want to make a cut I simply press S. After that I select the newmade portions of the Masterclip one by one and assign them the right video-takes using the T button. These pre-edited portions can be copied to another project to edit further.
As you may have gathered I am not much of a scriptwriter in any sense that is useful here, but in normal language it would have to go something like:
Copy track CAM1 to the Master-Track
For every region:
-------select the region
-------find the clip on the Mastertrack within the selected region
-------for every videotrack except the Mastertrack:
------------find the clip within the selected region
------------select the part of the clip that falls within that region (Video and Audio)
------------add it to the clip on the Mastertrack as Takes
--------find the DAT-clip within the selected region
--------select the part of the clip that falls within that region (only Audio off course)
--------add it to the clip on the Mastertrack as Take
End of script.
Hope this makes sense. If anyone has a hint on how to write that script, I’d be delighted.
Let’s say there are four camera’s and one DAT track. During recording everything was synced with a clapperboard. To edit I first make a LIBRARY-project with the tracks (Video and Audio):
MASTER
CAM1
CAM2
CAM3
CAM4
DAT
I import the clips in the appropriate tracks (not using MASTER yet) and synchronize them manually using the wave-peaks of the clapperboard. On every scene I put a timeline-region.starting with the clap and ending when the recording-take stopped
Now for the part that I’d like scripted:
I copy CAM1 to MASTER
I select the region 1 in the Timeline (the first scene), rightclick on the clip within that region on CAM2 and open it in the trimmer, right-drag the selection (Video and Audio) from the trimmer to the clip in the Mastertrack and choose Add As Takes. Then I do the same for clip 3 and 4. Finally I add the DAT selection as an Audiotake to the masterclip in the same way.
Then I go on to the next region and do the same thing until all regions are done.
Here the script ends.
I now have all the material as grouped-clips (as they call it in Avid I think) on the mastertrack. Selecting all the audio from the master and pressing "T" a few times I can make sure that MasterAudio is allways the DAT.
Using TrackMotion I make CAM1 appear upper-left, CAM2 upper-right, Cam3 down-left, and CAM4 down-right, so I can view them all in one. By soloing or muting the Mastertrack I can view a clip full-frame.
To edit I mute and select the masterclip and press Play. If I want to make a cut I simply press S. After that I select the newmade portions of the Masterclip one by one and assign them the right video-takes using the T button. These pre-edited portions can be copied to another project to edit further.
As you may have gathered I am not much of a scriptwriter in any sense that is useful here, but in normal language it would have to go something like:
Copy track CAM1 to the Master-Track
For every region:
-------select the region
-------find the clip on the Mastertrack within the selected region
-------for every videotrack except the Mastertrack:
------------find the clip within the selected region
------------select the part of the clip that falls within that region (Video and Audio)
------------add it to the clip on the Mastertrack as Takes
--------find the DAT-clip within the selected region
--------select the part of the clip that falls within that region (only Audio off course)
--------add it to the clip on the Mastertrack as Take
End of script.
Hope this makes sense. If anyone has a hint on how to write that script, I’d be delighted.