Two Camera Angles

I shot a wedding for a friend (I have very little experience with this, just doing him a favor to save money on the wedding) and had two camera angles going, one from a tripod and one handheld that I was carrying.
I was wondering if there was an easy way to line up the clips and cut back and forth between the two angles. I also have iMovie HD 6 available.

bp1002 wrote:
.. (why does the single guy always get stuck shooting these romantic things )
advice from the divorced guy, who always get stuck shooting these romantic things:
give (m)any of the present teenagers (a) small digital still-cam(s) and give advice 'as much and as close as you can get'; they shouldn't care for detail, perspective.. SHOOT! (e.g. never use the viewfinder, hold camera 'on the long arm'). faces, faces, faces..
before edit, view the 4321 stills in iPhoto and create an album of the top50 pics... perhaps, prep them: b/w, add a white border, place them on some grey-linen background =can all be done in Keynote .. see example#2 on my iDVD modding site .. in case, you don't own Photoshop/Pixelmator etc.
esp. when using 1 camcorder only, you will LOVE to intercut stills.. that adds 'drama' - paced video, calm (Ken Burns) stills, or +vice versa+ fast edited still impressions, and slow-mo, classic music video..

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I made video of the home birth of our third child using a miniDV and a Nisis DV6 camera. The DV6 has very lousy sound, but some of the DV6 video was critical to use for a period of time. I imported the overlapping clips, exported the audio on both, muted the DV6 audio, then moved the audio from the miniDV clip so it lined up with the DV6 audio. With a little more fading in/out on the audio from the two tracks I seemlessly/gracefully switch camera angles and preserved good audio.
I have a comment (a wishlist item) and a question. I wish I would have had the ability to take the two overlapping video clips, line up the audio waveforms and at the same time overlap the video clips on the timeline. I wish I could have then played both clips at the same time with the ability to switch between the two camera angles. I would take the ability to view both camera angles without the ability to switch between camera angles in real time, but then I'd wish I had the ability to specify which clip to use at any point in the timeline rather than having to manually insert the video from one camera angle or the other the other then insert a transition. Does any Apple-compatible video editing software thats provide some or all of the capability I desire? If Apple software developers are out there I hope you think this might be another great innovation.

As David and Karsten said: FinalCut Express is really the software, you are looking for. I have only worked with it twice (unfortunately I am still waiting for my - first - Mac now for two weeks, so as a Win-user I had no chance to have a more intensive look on FCE). But it is a great program.
What David said about the learning: It is quite easy. I have learned digital video editing on Adobe Premiere and on a Avid-machine, which is nearly the same as handling FinalCut. You'll perhaps need one evening. But after that you'll have the basic knowledge for editing your videos. The rest comes step by step. It is just learning-by-doing.
Another advice: Adobe Premiere Elements is also a good program for what your want to do. But it is much cheaper and a bit easier to learn. For editing simple home-movies perhaps the better choice. It has even a build-in DVD-authoring.
Greets
Stefan

Can I edit from two camera angles?

Hello
I'm an iMovie lover struggling with Final Cut Express! I want to use two camera's to shoot some interviews, is there an easy way to edit these two pieces of the same footage (different angles) in Final Cut Express?
Cheers
Derek

Hi
Yes - but not as easy as in FinalCut Pro (old one e.g. 6) where there is a multicamera function.
If FCE - I do
• Put Camera one on Video Track one in TimeLine
• Put Camera two on Video Track two
• Select track one clip
- by double click it and then in Viewer turn on Image + Wireframe and
- resize it to 50% and
- move it to a corner e.g. top left one.
• Same with track two - but up to the right
• Now move one track so that it synchronize with the other one. You can use the audio Wave-form to do this - I use a flash-light from a Camera to get one white frame on both cameras to set them exactly right.
• Now by changing the transparency of the track two (pen tool and set to show transp.-line) one can select what Camera to view.
• When all's done - Just scale back and center picture
And Done
Yours Bengt W

Two camera angles ended up in one, how do I separate?

When I started a multicam project...in the timeline it displays 2 angles in one. How do I move one camera angle to its own time line?

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With Imovie 9 it was possible to use the cutaway tool to use two camera angles. Can't find this option in the new Imovie downloades with the new OS X Mavericks... Any advice for me? Thanks!

To create a cutaway with the new iMovie, simply drag one clip above another, and it will instantly connect to the clip below to create a cutaway. Once the clip is in the timeline, you can easily change it to a side-by-side, picture-in-picture, or green screen clip. You can learn more here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov159eff157

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I've just started using iMovie '11 to put together a little concert footage of my band. I've got two videos of the same concert from two different angles. One is in front of the band and one is next to the drums. Obviously, the video next to the drums has louder audio. Is there a way I can edit these to videos together with iMovie '11 and mix together the audio as well?

If you do a lot of this you may want to try Final Cut Pro X. However, it is quite possible in iMovie. In FCP X, there are tools for automatically aligning the clips from the various cameras and audio sources, and it is fairly straightforward to then cut between cameras as part of a compound clip.
Here is how I did it in iMovie.
I recently did this for a video of my niece's senior voice recital. (Video is below)
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I had three audio possibilities. A CD recording, the side camera audio track, and the back camera audio track. I decided to use the side camera audio track with heavy use of muted cutaways from the back camera. So I used the side camera as my base clips, and used the back camera as the cutaway clips. I decided the CD recording had too much noise even after fixing in Audacity. And the back camera audio track was OK but had too much coughing and noise.
Here are tips for getting it lined up perfectly.
1) In iMovie/Preferences make sure that you check "Display Time as hh:mm:ss:frames" so you can edit to the frame level. (Also, select "Show Advanced Tools so you get the Cutaway feature)
2) In the iMovie Project View, set the thumbnail slider to 1/2 second so you have a great deal of control.
3) Initially, leave the volume at 100% on the Cutaway track, so that both tracks are playing. You can hear when they are off.
4) Click the "Waveforms" button in the Project view, so you get a visual cue of how to line up the tracks.
5) Between the audible cues and the visual cues, you can nudge the cutaway back and forth one frame at a time by dragging until you have it perfect.
6) When it is lined up to your satisfaction, set the volume slider of the Cutaway track to zero, and turn off the waveforms. You can also move the thumbnail slider back to 5 seconds or so.
7) For some of the fine work, I switched to the "single row timeline view". This slows you down a bit, but lets you see the waveforms more clearly.
8) I made heavy use of the iMovie Comment Marker feature. I watched the whole base video/audio track and inserted comment markers at the points where I wanted the Cutaway to begin and end. For example, a comment might say "Insert Cutaway 1". I would usually time the cutaway so it started at a distinct audio event, such as when the piano start. This comment marker made it easy to drag my cutaway to a point that was approximately correct.
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CS6 Multicam Edit - Is there a way to turn off some camera angles when the system gets strained?

I'm doing a multicam edit in cs6 and the 5 camera angles I have are straining my system. I have two main angles and three kind of back up go pro angles that I don't need most of the time. But I don't want to get rid of them either. Is there a way to turn off monitoring some of the angles at times so that video will playback smoother? Then when I need the other angles, switch them back on when I want? The video is so choppy with all 5 angles monitoring at once that multicam editing is basically impossible. I'm editing on what's supposed to be a very fast system at work but it's not fast enough...Thanks!

I'm not aware of any way to do this. You might want to invest in a battery case if this is a problem for you; our users here all have them.
Please submit your feature request to Apple at this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback; I agree it's a good idea.

Best way to mix multiple camera angles from multiple performances?

There has to be a slick way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm hoping someone can offer their advice on the best way to approach this project. (I'm using Premiere Pro CS4)
I have footage from 2 performances of a high school play that I want to mix together, with 2 cameras used each night:
Cam1: Friday Right
Cam2: Friday Center
Cam3: Saturday Wide Left
Cam4: Saturday Wide Right
I only had 2 cameras, but I wanted to capture 4 different angles that I could later mix and match. The problem is that, as live performances go, you can't count on exact timing from night to night. It's really simple to do multi-camera editing for one night with the Multicamera Monitor (painfully simple), which works great for the 2 angles that were filmed on the same performance, but if I try to do it with footage from different nights, it only takes about a minute for actions onstage to be so far off between the two nights that I can't switch between cameras with reasonable accuracy.
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I may be missing something very simple or over-analyzing something that really won't be that bad, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the best way to approach cutting back and forth among the same 4 unsynchronized camera angles numerous times. If nayone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.
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Time - being in sync...
Most performances like that shot ( for like a music video ) are done to recorded music ( lip sync and play to recorded music ) ..so timing stays the same to the music... dont know what kind of performance you shot but this gives you an idea how tough it is to keep timing for music performances.
---------you wrote -----
Since I will be going back and forth many times among 4 clips, the ideal solution that I have come up with (but I don't think Premiere can do) is to have the ability to set markers or keyframes at certain locations that basically say "switch to MM:SS on camera X now" without actually trimming clips and overlaying them into a single video track. So basically determining which camera is "Live". This would let me do rolling edits without having to create a new clip every time I want to switch to that camera angle.
If you can't just use one night as suggested earlier by Jim and Stan....I would say bite the bullet and just do what you dont want to do...
make subclips ( trim clips or whatever ) and forget about rolling edits...
You might want to consider putting stuff in 4 sequences... day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4...
make a 5th sequence called "rough cut " or something...
each time you take a "clip" from one of the 4 sequences move that clip up one video channel ( and copy / paste to your 5th sequence )..which then gives you a visual quick guide what you have USED from the sequences...so you dont waste time scrubbing through stuff you already put into sequence 5....
You may be able to choose just ONE sound track from one night and just use THAT...and pick shots that FIT those moments in time OK from all 4 sequences....you can play with duration / time of a small clip ( as it is unlinked to the sound in this scenario ) to make it FIT better...but that would be very subtle changes...
ps...I keep forgetting...some people use the camera to record sound instead of a sound mixer, recorder, etc...so if thats your case what I suggested at bottom of mssg probably would not work...using duration / time...unless its REALLY minor adjustment...hmmmm, maybe export just the sound from a single performance and try using that as your ONE sound file for the performance...I really dont know what you would do if you recorded sound with the cameras...as I would never do that I dont know what to suggest if thats the case...

Camera Angles in Java 3D

Hi,
I am using lookAt command in Java 3D to view my drawings from different camera angles. However, I am having some difficuty doing that.
I have used gluLookAt with OpenGl and I was wondering if there is a difference between the two. I am trying to use the command in Java exactly in the same way I was in C++ but the two are behaving differently.
For example.
I have drawn grid lines which I want to view from different locations instead of looking it at from the normal 0,0,1 location. I want to view it from location such as 1,1,1 (top right corner)
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Hi,
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Audio interrupted when switching camera angles (help request)

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My setup is two cameras synchronized with external audio. My goal is simply to be able to switch from one camera angle to another while retaining the audio exactly. I wish to make hard cuts (i.e., no cross dissolves or other transitions)—surely this must be the easiest and most common of multicam edits?
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I think this describes my issue as well. Thank you for your investigation!
I had the background noise reduction enabled on the angle I was using for the multicam audio. I disabled that, and the volume adjustment I had made to the track, and now the full multicam clip with angle switching appears to be playing without audio interruptions.
I'm working on a possible work-around: In the Project Timeline, I took all of the "sub-clips" representing each new angle, and created a new compound clip containing all of them. I then applied the noise reduction to the compound clip. This appears to apply the noise reduction to the compound clip as a whole, instead of each individual angle cut, and therefore does not interrupt the audio on an angle cut.
Write back if it works for you.

HT5105 I have been trying to create a multicam clip from two camera's. They sync properly when using the sync feature but not when I use the multicam feature does anyone know what I may be doing wrong?

I have been trying to create a multicam clip from two camera's. They sync properly when using the sync feature but not when I use the multicam feature does anyone know what I may be doing wrong?

Probably best if you could post screen shots of the Inspecror window in extended view with a couple of the clips you using for the 2 angles.
If you have audio from both cameras and have identified them separately, the sync is usually pretty reliable.
Russ

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Hi,
I am very new to LabVIEW (in fact to any coding at all) and helping my adviser to get the 3D coordinates of a few reflective markers using two cameras. I am able to read the marker coordinates (x, y) from two cameras simultaneously by processing the data in real-time using codes generated from vision assistant. However, we want to get the depth position by triangulating the markers. I have seen stereo vision doing something similar to this, but I think the stereo vision may not work with our calibration frame (markers) and we don’t need the whole depth image, but only the maker’s z coordinates. I also want to use Region of Interest to mask out other regions that are creating reflections. However, I am not sure if triangulation would work if we select region of interest (as the origin of the camera coordinates would change after selecting ROI). I saw this link http://kwon3d.com/theory/dlt/dlt.html#3d where they used DLT (direct linear transformation) method, but it is too much to code from the beginning. Is there a subVI in LabVIEW or some sort of prewritten code that can be customized? Can anyone please give me some advice on how to solve this problem?

Well in theory, if you know exactly where the cameras are pointed, how far apart they are, and how far the reflector images are above or below the horizon and to the right or left of center line, a little simple math should give you the answer. Concerning the ROI I would think all you needed to know was where the ROI was relative to horizon and centerline. You could then calculate an absolute position from there, which would also give you the angles you would need.
Unfortunately, I don't know of any readily availble code. But I'm sure there is some! With the emphasis on FIRST robotics, I got to believe that judging distances in 3D space is something for which there is a lot of code.
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I filmed and event using 2 DV cameras, imported the video and did some editing. I created 2 multi clips that are about 1 hour each. The multi clips switch between the different camera angles.
What I want to do is create a DVD (probably two 1 hour DVDs) that provides the three different views: 1) multi clip as the main track 2) camera one & 3) camera two.
What is best way to do this?
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VideoWrecker wrote:
What I want to do is create a DVD (probably two 1 hour DVDs) that provides the three different views: 1) multi clip as the main track 2) camera one & 3) camera two.
What is best way to do this?
You need to output three video clips, one for each video stream (angle). It can get tricky. You should read up on it in the DVDSP manual. It covers this area very well. I recently produced an instructional dance DVD which incorporated a front, side and rear view of the instructor. News about that DVD feature has been burning up the bellydance forums, so I did something right!
It was a bit of a nightmare with invalid GOP structures due to different edits in different timelines. But it was worth working through (a giant learning experience) and in the end it was much fun -- the whole thing was shot on a bare bones budget and over a marathon 17-hour shoot! FYI, and this is not meant to be a plug, [here's the trailer|http://azhiadance.com/dancerscompanion.htm] to see an example.
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Does Final Cut Pro 10 not have multiple camera angles like previous versions? How do you edit multiple cameras angles?
... Gary

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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/professional-video-editors-weigh-in-on -final-cut-pro-x/
There was an official Apple FCPX FAQ but the url no longer works.

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You can look for another app. Afraid I don't have one to suggest, but I do understand that other apps will sort photos differently.

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