Overlay and synchronize video

Question

Hello,
Does anyone know, how to overly and synchronize 2 or more videos of athletes, for example alpine skiers, using Premiere Pro? You can see that on the TV sometimes, where 2 racers are put into one track over each other and you can compare their rides? They are using special technology on the TV, probably Dartfish. But I hope somebody has some idea how to do it in Premiere? I have put one video over the second and set the opacity to 50%. Then I moved the upper video and adjusted its size, so that the gates (the skiers were at) matched. I created keyframes for couple of gates and for each of them I repeated the same and hoped Premiere would do the rest. But the result isn't good, the skiers drive away just a moment after leaving the gate. Any tips? Thanks. Ivan

Answer 1

Just for future reference, should anyone be looking at this thread for more information:
This link has a table with all major DIAdem features and what type of license (Base, Advanced or Professional) is required to use these features:
http://www.ni.com/diadem/buy/
The Professional license adds
3D model data mapping
GPS map layouts
to the features already present in the Advanced version (including video synchronization).
This page has a very detailed list of features, with more in depth descriptions and screen shots:
http://sine.ni.com/ds/app/doc/p/lang/en/id/ds-263#view.base
Maybe this is helpful to someone ...
     Otmar
Otmar D. Foehner
Business Development Manager
DIAdem and Test Data Management
National Instruments
Austin, TX - USA
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