VS9 - Help! Switching Between Vid Track & Ovrlay Track

[KevinMeyer]

Hi,

Excuse the rambling but I hope the below is understandable.

Advice needed:

Scenario: Multi camera edtting - I have footage from 2 cameras of a church service. One filming the preacher and the other filming the podium at which various speakers speak.

I have tried putting the one cameras footage on the video track and the others on the overlaytrack. I want to keep the full service from both cameras on the video and overlay track and cut from one to the other.

I fullsized the overlay track but now I can't see the video track footage.

Is it possible to fade/cut from the video on the video track to the video on the overlay track when needed? e.g. preacher speaking (camera A footage placed on the Video track use sound from camera A) then when someone comes to the podium to speak switch to camera B's footage on the overlay track (now use sound on camera B).

I need to keep the audio from both cameras as sometime I need the audio from camera A and sometimes from camera B.

Am I missing something or can't Video Studio 9 switch (cut/fade) between the video and overlay track? I don't want to have to trim the footage in camera B and the put it in the overlay track only when I want to switch to that view. Doing this will make it terribly long and hard to line the video AND audio up for each time i want to switch the view.

Is the overlay just for Picture in picture or simple cuts to other scenes and not a full video track that you can cut to when needed and then back to the video track (like some of the more expensive editting software I've seen)?

To me it seems the easiest, and what I have been trying to do is have the whole service of camera A on the video track, place the whole service from camera B on the overlay track, line up the footage so the audio is in sync and then just switch between the 2 tracks as needed...

Any help or advice will be appreciated.

Regards,

Kevin.

[Ron P.]

Hi Kevin,

What you are wanting to do, is a little complex. You can do it with VS, however you need to decide which audio track you are wanting to be the main audio. The reason is, you may need to cut your video clips to have a good fade transition between shots. Or you could just use the professional method of Hard cuts, where there are no transitions.

There is a tutorial for doing multi-camera edits, found HERE. As noted at the top of the tutorial, Charlie Hill's book. You might( should) get this book, if you really want to understand, and know how to do things like this.

Since you are using VS9, you will need Charlie Hill's book, Getting Results with VideoStudio 9.
I have this one as well as the one for MSP8.

[KevinMeyer]

Thanks,

read the tuturial, will give it a try - looks like it's going to be quite a time consuming task (cause have to switch between the audio as well so will have spend time trying to sync it all up).

Regards,

Kevin.

[Ron P.]

I agree that it will be very time consuming, since you are wanting to use more then 1 audio track. The sync when using multiple cameras, is at the start. That's why they use a clapper or flash, or something that provides a visual cue. Once you alter that, then the sync tends to go down the drain.

Good luck !!