Help - Editing together multiple tracks (for a school play)!

[jmone]

I just got ¡§volunteered¡¨ to put together the recording from a school play. While I have plenty of experience with editing my own home vid footage, any advice and tips on how to edit, switch between, and keep in sync up to 3 x Video Tracks (all static Cams shot on DV) and 1 x Audio track (??? on what format) would be welcome¡K.(what have I done!)
Thanks
Nathan

[Black Lab]

See Multi-Camera Editing.

[jmone]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction - I see I can have my 3 Video Tracks - 1 main, 2 x overlay and just to confirm the method is to basically "cut out" the bits from the overlay tracks you don't want to see. While more or less the same, I take it there is no way to just set Mark In / Mark Out of the 2 x overlay tracks.

Thanks
nathan

[Clevo]

Simply sync the three video tracks and the audio....then cut away from the overlay tracks.... easiest way.

[jmone]

Thanks...I'm sure i'll be back with more NooB Q's when I've the tapes in my hot little hands.

[Clevo]

Come back here anytime with any question...heaps of peeps here to help

[jmone]

I've got my material and am currently capturing a tape at a time (6 x DV Tapes in 4:3 LP from 3 different cameras so I hope I don't have problems reading them + 1 cd with AIF files).

I "apparatnly" have 3 different Video angles to work with
1) Static Wide Shot
2) Following the Main Action
3) Getting footage of the backup actors

I've not yet reviewed the footage but a couple of Q's as I get my mind around what I should be doing:
1) Should I use the Static Wide Shot as Video Track 1 and cut in material from the other two cams - is this the way to go?
2) Given it is a stage should I be thinking to output the DVD as 16:9 (I know I'll lose some resolution but it will be closer to the stage format - pending of course how tight the shots get or I'll cut some heads off)
3) Anything "odd" with handling AIF Audio Files?

Thanks
Nathan

[jmone]

OK I've got it all together but I need some advice of any filters I should use to help polish this thing up, in particular if there are any filters I should use to help with:

Video (captured from 3 different DV camcorders)
- Differnt Colour Temp between the different Video Tracks'
- Low Light Video Noise (all shot on a "theater stage" )

Audio (captured from the theaters sound mixer)
- Audio Noise (sounds like white noise from)
- Some sections are unbalanced (eg only getting dialog from the RH speaker):

Thanks
Nathan

[sjj1805]

Regarding the sound. ONLY use the sound from the Video Track, mute the sound from the two overlay tracks.

Regarding differences in colour temperature you can alter the white balance as per this tutorial:
Auto Color & Tone video filters

[jmone]

Regarding the sound. ONLY use the sound from the Video Track, mute the sound from the two overlay tracks.

The sound track I'm using was recorded from the mixer (so I'm using none of the Audio from the Video Cams at all and have them muted). The main Audio issue is the high level of Hiss in the quite sections. I've tried playing with the Audio filters but they seem to either do little or add their own "unique" audio artifacts that are worse than the original.

Regarding differences in colour temperature you can alter the white balance as per this tutorial:
Auto Color & Tone video filters

Thanks - will have a read.

[Pappalem]

The sound track I'm using was recorded from the mixer (so I'm using none of the Audio from the Video Cams at all and have them muted). The main Audio issue is the high level of Hiss in the quite sections. I've tried playing with the Audio filters but they seem to either do little or add their own "unique" audio artifacts that are worse than the original.

Get the audio track sorted first by running it through a 3rd party programme ( Audacity is easily available and free ), then importing to the video mix.

[Black Lab]

Read this brand new Videomaker magazine article about Noise Removal.