Multicam feature

DelCallo wrote on 9/30/2007, 5:21 AM

Anyone using this feature? I haven't had a chance to play with it much, but had done quite a bit of multicam with previous Vegas versions that had no dedicated feature. What about this feature makes multicam easier than just aligning tracks from several cams on their respective tracks, splitting and taking selected cuts as required and moving them to a master track?

Thanks for any tips.

Del

Comments

UKAndrewC wrote on 9/30/2007, 6:02 AM

Exactly the way I do it, Del.

From what I have read, the multicam feature puts all tracks as takes on a single track?

I suppose if you are just cutting something like a conference, it works.

For work like music videos, where there are different effects and transitions for each new event, that sounds cumbersome.

Andrew

StormMarc wrote on 9/30/2007, 9:04 AM

I love it, give it a try. I used Excalibur before (which is still a great product) but the new Sony Multicam for straight cutting allows you to switch in and out of multicam viewing mode with a keystroke throughout all stages of the project. With the script based plugins you must make all your final cuts at once. In other words you can't go back and view all cameras once you've the plugin and you can't see your cuts in full screen mode until you've run the plugin. With Vegas Multi-Cam you can see all cameras, make some cuts, view your cuts in single camera mode and then go back into multi-camera mode at will.

Excalibur Multi-cam has more control over transitions so I'll still use it when I need that feature as well it's other amazing time saving features.

Marc