Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery
by Chris Young
on
Jun 9, 2008 at 11:36:21 am
Anyone else notice this and is there a work-around.
Set up lets say four cameras tracks for a multicam switch. Say a couple of the cameras are a bit off color. CC the off color tracks at clip level. Create your master switch track and voila! CC has left the room. You cannot use a CC plugin on clips and then combine them into a switch-cut master track. I knew about losing envelopes, track effects and motion but didn’t know about individual clip ‘Event FX’ not holding.
Ok I thought. Once the switch is finished, if the job isn't too big, find the first off color camera cut and CC it. This worked ok. Logic then made me think I that I could copy this clip and 'paste event attributes' to subsequent cuts belonging to the off color camera. No sir! Cannot paste event attributes on to subsequent cuts in a multicam master track. Why I wonder. What a shame. V8.0's multicam is quite elegant in some ways but does disply shortcomings in others, such as this fairly major one.
So I guess you have to CC all tacks that need it and then render them up before you can use them in a multicam job I don't seem to recall having to do this in Excalibur which I had in v7.0 but recently uninstalled. Looks like it's back to v7.0 and Ed's mighty multicam tool for jobs requiring CC.
If anyone has a work-around for v8.0 that overcomes this problem please let me know!
Re: Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery by Adam Rose Esq. on Jun 9, 2008 at 2:35:00 pm
last week I CC'd some clips in the media pool. Once in multicam, the CC disappeared, but after doing the edit, then reverting back to single cam view (i.e. finished with the multicam), the CC was back
so CC is disabled during multicam, but is still there after. Didn't try it on individual clips.
Re: Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery by Chris Young on Jun 9, 2008 at 3:20:49 pm
Great news Adam! You got me going. The loss of CC seemed to limit multicamera to me. So why isn't it working here? Rushed to another Vegas box, CCed a track on the timeline. As you say it disappears during the switch and but lo and behold its there when you revert to post switch full screen. Rushed back to first unit and tried same again. Lost CC after switch, what the....?? Went the un-install re-install path on the first system and what do you know, it's working as you describe. Geez! you can't take anything for granted can you. Many thanks mate! Only one odd thing left now. MXF markers save on one unit but not on the other... go figure, and yes the pref is ticked on each system.
Re: Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery by Douglas Spotted Eagle on Jun 9, 2008 at 3:29:08 pm
Color correction in the Project Media is the right way to always do this, problem is, if you have a lot of different clips frmo the same camera, it can turn into an issue.
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Re: Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery by Chris Young on Jun 9, 2008 at 4:29:17 pm
DSE ~
No generally each camera is one clip of around 45 mins for most of the sport multicam switches I do so no big difficulty. Must admit I never thought to CC the clips in the project media bin first for multicam use. Always learning! Solves my problem nicely!
Re: Vegas multicamera shortcoming discovery by Chris Young on Jun 9, 2008 at 3:43:44 pm
No, just suffering brain fade. Applied the CC in the media pool as you did, not the timeline, 1:40am here so serious brain fade time. I asked for a work-around solution and you gave me one so many thanks again.
