Syncing audio and video and saving as a single ele

busydoingnothing wrote on 8/23/2009, 9:26 PM
I'll preface by saying that I'm completely new to video editing. I have more experience in audio but this is my first real video project. I shot video with a Canon HF10 and recorded the audio to a Zoom H2. I'm editing it all in Vegas Platinum.

So let me draw this scenario out...I have a scene which we recorded in 3 different shots: medium shot of both characters, closeup of one character, closeup of the other. I want to cut between all of those shots for the end scene. So what I need to do is sync the audio from the H2 to the video of the HF10 for each take, and save those takes somehow so that I can easily cut between the different shots.

What's the best way to handle this? Should I sync the audio for one, render it to a new file, then repeat the process for all three? Doesn't that result in a degradation of the quality? Should I have 3 video tracks and 3 audio tracks, then split it all up and move them onto a single track?

Help a newb out, please!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 8/24/2009, 3:10 AM
Keeping them all as individual tracks is the best way. Add a Video Compositing envelope to the upper two video tracks (Insert / Video envelope / Track composite level). You can use this to select areas of track 1 to be transparent, and then track 2 will show through. Making both tracks 1 and 2 transparent will allow track 3 to show through.

Most likely you'll end up keeping only one of the audio tracks. It's handy to have them all on the timeline to assist in sync, but you'll end up muting two of them after you get all three lined up.