An older version of the script is helping me with a current project, a soundstory full of foley effects. It has helped me manage multiple takes of sounds.

The instructions were kind of hard to decipher. Pictures would be nice. Something that shows you a sample workflow where you lay out multiple camera angles beneath each other. Still, it's free and very useful so that can't be beat!

Never tried Excalibur so I can't say.

The Excalibur wizard is designed for multicamera event shoots, where everything stays in the same order it was shot.

This script is more for things like multi cam drama shoots, where footage is going to be cut and shuffled around - once each segment is synched, the various camera shots can be moved around together as takes.

"I'm not seeing the benifit over excalibur"

His is free, Excalibur isn't. Seems like a benefit for me!

I am looking for something for live concert editing. I use up to 5 cameras and would love to be able to synch them on the timeline and then run it in real time choosing on the fly what camera to take. then have it all render to a new track as selected useing the seperate audio source. Possible??


L.T.

Yes. That's exactly what Excalibur is designed to do. We use it frequently for editing shoots of live theatre, where we have two or three source tracks and often a couple of audio tracks as well.

Sync everything up, set up a PnP with all the tracks in it, play it and lay in your markers where cuts and dissolves will come, and generate a single track with all the cuts and dissolves in place. You can then go into the new track and refine things as needed. It's a great tool.

I haven't had an opportunity to look at the new scripts to see how they compare, but it sounds like they have been designed to be most effective when working with takes, rather than with continuous recordings of an event.

LongTallTexan,

What you describe is exactly what Multi-Cam Wizard in Excalibur is designed to do, though you don't have to go in real time (I often go through the footage faster than real time).

A video demonstration as well as a downloadable software demo is available at www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

Gary

Thanks Gary

I watched the video, seems pretty straight forward. I have seen alot of inexpensive software that allows you to do much the same thing a bit of a different environment. You get a screen with all sources showing much like excalibur describes. But you play the video in real time and hit the number of the corresponding track to select the take. On excalibur you set up a marker on whatever track you would like. In live concert it is more effective to play the show in real time to decide takes to get into the flow of the show. It seems that it would be a bit cumbersom to insert markers for each seperate event. Just some comments. I will probably still purchase your product but maby these suggestions could work there way in at a later point.

L.T.

L.T.

You can place markers on the fly with a two-camera edit without having to name them, but of course with more cameras you will have to tell the computer which one you want.

However, if you are going to be able to specify a cut, dissolve, or transition and also have the option of specifing a duration if it's other than what you set as the default, then you are going to have to type something in. NO software is going to read your mind.

I don't think that you will find that naming the markers is cumbersome once you actually use the software.

If the other software you speak of is the Multicam software for Premiere, that costs $300, has limited tracks, and you still have to do a lot of work back in Premiere when you are done.

I just finished another six-camera ice show with about 700 edits. Once the markers were in, the master track was created by Multi-Cam Wizard in about 45 seconds. I know of no other way to work as fast in ANY software at ANY price.

Gary

Well Discreet has a nice one in its Edit program. It is completely out of my budget, but im not here for a pissing match. I agree with you, excalibur offers some great time saving functions. All I am saying is how hard would it be to allow the operator to hit a 1 for source one and a 5 for source five then it lays into the master stream where you could then adjust transition or cut whatever the situation calls for. Then I could concentrate on the concert while holding my fingers over a number pad. Just makes more since to what I am doing. Just a suggestion, your product is great, I have heard nothing but good things about it.


L.T.

That is a plug in I could justify buying!!!

Dave T2