Filming Baseball Hitting from two angles---then combining

[johnrr6]

I am a local HS Baseball coach who uses Video Studio 10+ to edit my Player's swings----then I post them on Neptune.com for them to see, discuss with me later---or with another coach...sometimes I make DVD videos for certain boys to show prospective college coaches etc.

VERY convenient and for the first time, I have alomst instant feedback after a game on what my hitters were doing wrong---or right....

I usually use a side view with a nice Panasonic 3 CCD camera and the video is superb.

Recently---I purchased another Panasonic camera with a 32x Optical Zoom which I can set beyond the fence in center field----zoom in----and have a wonderful head-on strike zone view of my hitters----the lens is terrific and the video is beautiful----even from 370 feet away.

What I want to do is combine the two video streams into one video---I think using PIP or adding another video track---that way my hitters (and I) can see two different angles at the same time.

Now here's the problem...

What's the easiest way to synch the two streams??? How can I easily synch the pip or overlay track so it is showing the same moment as the background track????

Can I do this by time stamping somehow (make sure Date and Time on both cameras was set exactly the same----then start both cameras at exactly the same time???? Then just captureindividually later from the begginiing----and then combine???....

Is there an easy way to do this???

Or do I (as I'm afraid) have to do it the old fashioned way and just line up the clips manually.

Vide has been VERY powerful for this team----I can TELL them they are doing something wrong----but until they actually SEE that it is wrong----corrections don't usually get made.

Our Team Batting Average is up 50 points from last year and we are 14-2....I really believe in the power of video and want to find a way to combine this new head-on view with my traditional side view.

Help or advice most appreciated.

John

[sjj1805]

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Multi Camera Editing

[johnrr6]

Alright----good article and I think I get it....

My video A track with soundtrack would be my side view recorded from 50 feet away

My video B track would be my center field view with NO soundtrack (not necessary anyway as the sound I want would be from Video track A)

I just have to get a good synch from the start of both clips-----then----if the cameras are recording the same events at the same time----and I never stop them....

There are in synch and it's a done deal....

Procedures would be:

Capture both tapes from the Vid cameras----each to a separate clip
Put Side view clip into main Track with sound
Put head-on view into additional overlay track without sound
Synch the two tracks
Decide how I want the overlay track to appear....
Produce the video....

Then from there----I can take small clips from the main video I just produced----say a clip of a single hitter during a particular at-bat...

And produce it for the web and posting on Neptune.com for sharing with the player/team as necessary. And/Or----produce the whole long video to DVD for viewing/analysis/archive later...

Does this sound like the right procedure???

Thanks for the help!

John

[johnnyelectron]

Johnrr6, I think the easiest way to mark the two would be to use the 100-year old standard movie industry clapboard ("take one" - action) and snap it - BUT, I'm not sure how you would then be able to sync the two in the software - anyone have any ideas? Thanks.