A-b roll editing

hi again
does anyone out there know anyway to make a-b roll editing easy. when I was doing linear editing my a-deck and my b-deck was linked electronically. I've been doing the same thing with imovie by seperating one audio track to work off of and deleting the other audio tracks as I put the two separate angles of video together. I'ts time consuming and basically requires simple math but...time is money.
thanks, frank

Frank,
Simply stated, Advanced>Paste Over at Playhead will replace footage in your timeline with the footage you are pasting. The pasted clip replaces an equal duration of clip in the timeline.
You can also use a setting in iMovie>Preferences to tell iMove to automatically extract the audio before it does the past over. Useful for cutting away to some "B-Roll" while preserving your original audio should you wish to use it.
Matt

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Thanks to anyone that can help me solve this.
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I have no explanation. I had done nothing with since I posted my question. Never mind.
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Wes,
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[Edit] After reading Steve's article, the one thing that I would do (after establishing sync) to assist me in editing multi-camera would be to set the Video Track Display to show all "frames" and the expand the height of each of the two Video Tracks (VT's), so that they occupy most of the vertical real estate in the Timeline. Then, I'd zoom in on the horizontal display of the Timeline, so that I could see fairly clearly, each frame. This basically makes the Timeline like a detailed Sceneline, but keeps you in Timeline Mode. Because you do not have the Multi-camera Mode that PrPro does, you will not be getting anything but your upper Video Track footage in the Program Monitor. You will be viewing the footage ON the Timeline. This WILL necessitate a lot of horizontal scrolling on the Timeline, but is doable. Then, when you wish to be using the footage from VT1, you will cut out (Sissors Tool) the overlaying footage from VT2. I'd personally arrange my main footage (like the main Audio Track in Steve's article) on VT1, and my "cutaway" camera's footage on VT2. As VT2 takes prescedence over VT1, you can leave VT1's footage pretty much alone, and just cut the footage on VT2. I would use Cross-dissolves on the Head and Tail of the the "cut" Clips on VT2. Remember that if you use these, you will want to make sure that the cut has come where you want the scene on VT2 to absolutely start, or end. The Duration of the Cross-dissolves will determine when the scene either becomes 100% visible (Head), or 100% invisible (Tail). Also, remember that Dip-to-Black on VT2 takes the image on VT1 to black, hence my use of Cross-dissolves.
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As Steve points out, PrPro makes it easier by locking Tracks and a Multi-camera dual monitor, when in Multi-camera Mode.
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Please add a new option under Edit>Preferences>General... labeled "Allow Edit Point Selection". With this option checked, Premiere Pro would function as it does in CS6 and the user would be able to select edit points in the sequence. With it unchecked, Premiere Pro would function as it did in 5.5 and no such selection would be possible.
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