Video Duplication

Beaney wrote on 11/10/2002, 6:03 PM

I have to make 2 films in March next year. Both are 2 and a half hour musicals, one is on the Saturday and the other is on the Sunday!
To explain, Peppercorn Performing Arts (see their website if you are interested)have 2 main casts, cast 1 will perform 2 shows on Saturday and will be in the choir on Sunday while cast 2 take the limelight for their 2 shows.
I will film all 4 shows with 3 cameras giving me giving me 6 tracks to edit for Saturday and the same again for Sunday.
What I want to do is this:- after I have edited the 6 tracks from the Saturday Shows, can I somehow save all of the transition points/fades/envelope settings before or after I render to one track and apply them to the 6 tracks from the Sunday Show. It will be the same show but with different people in the same places.

Is this at all possible.

Thanks.

Comments

craftech wrote on 11/10/2002, 6:44 PM

Yes,
You can copy and paste keyframes.

John

SonyDennis wrote on 11/10/2002, 10:26 PM

You could also use event "takes" -- same project, same events, different media underneath. You might have to adjust the timing slightly due to changes in the performance, but you could keep all the same FX, transitions, and basic editing. Just make sure your cameras are capturing the same stuff.
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kkolbo wrote on 11/11/2002, 6:33 AM

You can also use the REPLACE function in the media pool which will exchange on capture clip for another. But you have to make sure that each camera starts at the same time and shoot the same thing. (doubtful)

K

jetdv wrote on 11/11/2002, 9:39 AM

While this all sounds good in theory, it may not work as well as you hope. For instance, let's say you cut to camera 2 for a solo for some person on Saturday, you switch to Sunday's footage, but camera 2 is panning over to where the soloist is at the time of the cut. Then you would have to adjust that cut to match the new footage. Also, timing wise, musicals take different lengths of times on different performances. If using live music, the songs will even take different lengths of time. If you try this, I would be interested in hearing how it all works out and how many cuts you had to adjust after switching footage.

BTW, I would probably simply edit the program, delete the first day's footage, capture the second day's footage with the same names. Now, when re-opening the project, it will see the expected footage names.

p.s. If this is a purchased musical, make sure they have a video release. Some musicals include this, some include it with restrictions, and some don't include it at all (often purchasing it is VERY expensive i.e. major musicals like My Fair Lady).

Beaney wrote on 11/11/2002, 1:58 PM

Thanks everybody for your comments. I will let you know how I get on and will familiarise myself with event takes, replace, and find out how to paste and copy keyframes between now and the shows.

Its not a purchased musical jetdv. All Peppercorns productions are originalls. Some large organisations are looking at buying the rights from Peppercorns to do their own versions.

If any of you are in England I will post a copy of the show they put on at the West End in January and in St Neots so you can see what they are about (not to see how badly I made my first film I must add).

Regards,

Beany.