Re: Locking tracks & cross fading

This is how I started out. I put two wedding files on the timeline and tried to line them up, so I could use the multicam option. I had a very hard time syncing the two, because somehow both cameras had been paused at the the beginning of the wedding. I finally thought that I had them lined up, but futher down the timeline about 30 minutes or so, the two became slightly out of sync, because I had an echoeing effect. I did some messing around and thought that I had it pretty close and used the multicam in Vegas. Didn't really like just the cuts, so I decided that I like Excalibur better, because I had the option of disolves instead of just cuts. Set all my marker, and used multicam buton. I played it back and all of a sudden noticed that after the groomsmen came in and stood there, a minute or two went by, and then all of a sudden the groomsmen came in for a second time. Finally found out that somehow on the master track, that section of the clip had been inserted twice when multicam did its thing. So I took the extra insertion out of the master track, and it seemed to solve the problem. Everything seemed to look pretty good, so I burnt it to a dvd. When I played it back on the tv, the quality was not very good, I had never had this problem with quality when using version 6 of Vegas. When the camera panned the bridal party going down the isle, the background was very stuttery and jerky. So started over again. Got everything ok, so it seemed. I rendered the file in Vegas to Mpeg2 format. I took that file, and opened it in Adobe Soundbooth to clean-up the audio, and save it, and was re-rendered as a mpeg2 again in Soundbooth. Burnt to dvd, and played back on tv. Still bad quality, but this time there where sudden bursts of red (just for a flash-quick, enough to notice) on the screen. I seen this happen about 3 different times within a 5 minute run of the video. Now after all this frustration I am trying a different way, by putting both files on their track, cutting up what I don't need, lining up what left by syncing track 1 & 2, and pulling together the pieces into crossfades, and using a composite envelope on track 1, so I can fade from track to track, and see if that works. I've been at this 2 weeks already and only this far. Very sad, isn't it?