Two camera edit

I have two questions.
I have the same interview filmed on two cameras and I now want to edit the footage from both cameras into one clip using FCE. I've synced the footage easily enough from both cameras, but I have found the editing a bit of a struggle and very cumbersome. Is there a quick way to do this like the two camera editing tool in FCP?
The clip needs to be trimmed once cut together. I presume I do this once I have a completed clip..

You can also do it without a filter.
1. Place the clip you'll use the most shots from on V1.
2. Place the other clip on V2 then double-click the clip on V2 to load it into the Viewer.
3. Click on the Motion tab and Scale the clip to 50% and Center it so it's in one corner. Now you have a PIP effect.
4. Cut and delete the sections of the V2 clip that you do NOT want.
5. Once you're finished cutting, select ALL the clips remaining on V2, right-click on one and select "Remove Attributes" and select the Basic Motion option. All V2 clips will go back to full Scale and Center again.
6. While all the V2 clips are still selected, Shift-drag them to V1 and add transitions if needed.
-DH

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Two camera editing shortcuts?

Each summer I edit a big project that includes two cameras videotaping 5 two and a half hour long dance recitals. The vast majority of time to get this project onto DVDs for our customers involves me synchronizing the two cameras and editing between them. Is there any kind of hardware device that might allow me to do digital A/B editing on the fly, "live" as the show is in progress? Of course, we'd need to have a tape backup in case some edit didn't come out correctly. But, with almost 25 hours of importing to my computer after the shows, I could save an entire day of work by editing live.
I've ordered my upgrade to the Universal Binary of Final Cut Studio from DVD Studio Pro 4 (the last two summers I've used Final Cut Express 2). We'll be using a pair of Canon GL-2s that we're renting, so we don't have much opportunity to test out a process ahead of time. I'm not even sure the cameras would allow us to record to tape and stream the DV to a computer or some kind of switch box simultaneously... Any tips would be appreciated.
-Doug

Yes, I do consider them toys. first off, the Canon cameras seem to take reliable timecode as something they can play fast and loose with. They don't always play well with the final Cut products.
Yes, they have three chips, but they're really tiny chips. The lens on the gl2 leaves a LOT to be desired. The xl's will take additional lenses, but they can be hard to focus. The controls are clunky. The camera shape is clunky.
All the consumer/prosumer cameras are toy like-- even my dvx 100a-- which I bought because I needed a small camera for a couple of jobs. It's OK, but it sure doesn't beat something like an Ikegami D7, a Sony 570, or that new panasonic p-2 camera.
You can't put footage from a gl2 or xl or dvx up against footage from 2/3" chips and broadcast glass without being terribly disappointed.
My two cents.

Two-camera editing via timeline?

I'v filmed a pop group and am now editing the footage. We worked with two camera's and sound was recorded separately with a digital Edirol recorder, plugged into the PA-system. That audio-clip is used as the foundation for my editing. I synchronised it on the timeline with the (uninterupted) video-footage of the A-cam (sound of which is unpatched). Now I want to overwrite some parts of the A-footage by better, more dynamic, shots from the B-cam. Is there a way to just put the footage of the B-cam on another video-track and edit from one timeline-videotrack to another? Or does the cutting of the B-cam footage have to happen in the viewer and then do an overwrite edit to the A-cam track? Putting it in the timeline and editing from there would save a lot of synchronising effort. I hope I express this question clearly enough, English not being my native language...

I'm editing in the timeline, where there are already three audio-tracks (two stereo linked to the video trakc from camera A, and 1 WAV-file from the Edirol digital audio recorder )and one video-track. I try to drag a clip (the B-camera footage) - with no in- or out-points but with sound- from the browser to a new video track. Patch panels for the existing tracks on the timeline are in the 'patched' position.
So far, I edited clips from the two camera's by three-point editing in the canvas overlay (drag to the 'overwrite' panel), but that means I have to synchronise the clip in the viewer first, which is very timeconsuming. I was thinking that, when I could put the entire B-cam clip in a separate videotrack in the timeline, I would only have to synchronise it once, and then edit parts of it into the A-cam track.
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Editing a movie with video from two camera angles

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

Editing from a two-camera shoot

I shot a classical concert with two cameras. I've imported both tapes into my project. I want to use the closest camera for the soundtrack and cut-aways and the far camera for most of the video. Can anyone advise me on the easiest way to do this? I need to import the whole of the soundtrack tape (minus top and tail). Is replacing the video with footage from the second tape whilst keeping the original audio track uninterrupted straight forward?
Thanks in advance.
Martin

Martin Crawley1 wrote:
... Is replacing the video with footage from the second tape whilst keeping the original audio track uninterrupted straight forward?
only way to acomplish your task with iM ...
but.. I assume, you stumble soon into sync problems.. due to lack of two video timelines, it is very hard to find the right 'in' in your 2nd video ..
I would really susggest investment of 200$ and some time learning into FinalCutExpress.. (ok, FCpro has 'real' multicam support, but .. FCE does it)
the two/many tracks simultanously makes it much easier...

How can I adjust video from two cameras that are out of sync?

Hi - I've just recorded someone speaking on two cameras with the intention of cutting clips in from the second camera while using the video and soundtrack from the main camera, however the two video files are out of sync by half a second or so by the end. How can I 'stretch' the shorter clip so they coincide properly? Thanks, David.

David
What version of Premiere Elements are you using and on what computer operating system is it running?
Typically, select the clip,
as you hold down the Alt key of the computer main keyboard, tap the left or right arrow key once. Each tap = 1 frame nudge.
as you hold down the Shift+Alt keys of the computer main keyboard, tap the left or right arrow key once. Each tap = 5 frames nudge.
If you are working with audio editing, consider Edit Menu/Project Settings/General with Audio Display Format = Milliseconds.
Please let us know if any of the above worked for you.
Thank you.
ATR

Multi-Camera Editing

Primiere Pro CS4 Creative Suite
Hi, Thanx in advance for your help.
We did a multi-camera shoot of a band. We ran through the set twice with 4 cameras, thats a total of 8 tracks. The 2nd run through for the stationary camera on the drummer can be dropped to reduce the count to 7. Hopefully the timing on the first and second set will the same. It should be close as these guys are tight.
I'm hoping some seasoned Premiere user can give me some pointers on how to best do a 7 camera Multi-Camera edit.
I was thinking I would do each 4 camera shoot as a multi-camera edit and then, assuming they synch, take the output from each set and do them as a two "camera" multi-camera edit.
Is there a better way?
Of course, if the don't synch...I try not to think about that.
Thanx,
Mel

Assuming all cameras were on continuous roll nd therefore in synch.....I think I would aproach it like this:
The band and the director probably know which of the two performances (takes) were the best.
That one I would edit multicam.
Then I would look at each of the rolls from the other take and cherry pick the shots.
An NLE, like PPRO ,can work a bit like a vision switcher in the sense (and I am sure you know this) that the Upper Track is dominant over under lying tracks. You can use this to your advantage as you cherry pick your other takes. eg find a section you might like to use then toggle the track on/off to see where it fits into the multicam edited sequence.

2 camera edit

This will be my first 2 camera edit, so be gentle.
1) How do i set up FCP to see both track simoutaneously ?
2) Once on the timeline, what is the best way to line up A and B track so that the audio maches perfectly ?
Thank you
Vic

Vic,
You need to use multicam editing which is available in 5.1. You've asked a somewhat complicated question. Pull out the manual and read up on multi-cam and then get back to use with questions on that, but you need to know a little more.
The key to good multicam editing is the ability to sync the two cameras accurately. You can search this forum for info on that with lots of suggestions.
Have you shot this yet? Get back with us, okay.

Staggered Clips and Multi-Cam Editing

Good afternoon! I recently shot a memorial service with two cameras. The footage from each is staggered because one camera records to tape; the other to a 64gig SD card, and both were started/stopped at different times to allow for tape or card swaps, or battery swaps. I need guidance on how to best synch all the media that I'm bringing onto a timeline, since a synch point normally aligns the points of the first clips from Cam A and Cam B, but how do I then synch second and third clips from the two cameras? I'm sure there is a simple, practical answer, but haven't found it. Thanks in advance for your help!

Simple edit like this..
I would just lay down a Master Vid from one camera and drop shots on top if I and where I had a better shot.
He has 2.5 hours of event covered in 2 cams!
What a painful multicam session to deal with on the fly once he has gone thru and synched it in the first place. May as well cut it same time.
Multicam is really designed around multi cams in continuous run mode. 'live broadcast style'
Certainly works best if one has set up properly with decent time code / jam synch etc..

With Muti-clip gone from FCP X, is there a new way to sync two cameras with FCP X

With Muti-clip gone from FCP X, is there a new way to sync two cameras with FCP X

I film with two cameras then copy the files from each camera into their own folders. I then use ClipWrap to convert the MTS files into AIC. If the recording was one long contiguous session, many cameras will split the MTS files into 2GB chunks. ClipWrap will Convert Multiple to Span to reassemble them properly. With the AIC .MOV file from ClipWrap, I then use FCP X to Import the MOV files from camera 1 and camera 2. I prefer to do it that way versus using FCP X Import from Camera. I then move the clip from camera 1 onto the timeline in the "primary storyline" (FCP X terminology). I drag the camera 2 clip above the camera 1 clip and line up the audio from the two cameras while that audio is still attached to the video so everything stays in sync. FCP X has a way to automatically sync two soundtracks, but I have not gotten around to that yet. With camera 2's clip attached to camera 1's clip as a "connected clip" above the camera 1 video, I then do an edit to go between the cameras as seems best to me. When the connected clip of camera 2 video sits above the camera 1 video, it will take priority over the camera 1 video. I then split camera 1's video clip taking out sections when I want to go back to the camera 1 view. Of course I can trim camera 2's clips until I get it the way I want it. Since FCP X uses the magnetic timeline concept, and camera 2's clip is "connected" to the camera 1 clip, as you split and trim camera 2's clip, everything will stay in sync across the two camera "tracks". When there is no camera 2 video above the camera 1 video, camera 1 video will be seen. When camera 2 video is above camera 1 video, camera 2 video will be seen instead. With a single editing pass, I can then do all the editing I need to go back and forth between two cameras. The same concept is expandable to other camera "tracks" as long as you are using vertical position in the timeline to determine which camera is seen when. If you would like for it to look like a multi-camera track composit like before FCP X, you can simply select all your clips and make a compound clip out of it. You will then see the multiple camera clips side by side in a single "track". Double click on that "clip" in that "track" to go into the structure and editing individual "tracks" around if needed. Think of a compound track as what a sequence used to do. Anyway, there may be other, and easier ways to do this, but with a single edit through my recording, I can easily and visually cycle back and forth between camera views. It's just that things are called differently now ... and, as of this time, we do not have a single button camera switching function to let us view multiple cameras simultaneously and switch between them using a keystroke for each camera. Still, I have a way to do it, and it has worked very well for me, in fact I was pleasantly surprised at how easily I could do multi-camera in post. Hope this at least gives you one option. Others may have a better way. Best wishes.
stephen

QtCapture and two cameras :(

Hi, I'm new to cocoa and i'm having heaps of trouble trying to figure out why this very simple program won't work and how i can get around it, I've cut it down to a definite cause. The aim is to get two cameras feeding into two separate QTCaptureViews and at the moment I only use 1 camera at a time. In short, i'm certain that the problem is in opening two streams at the same time, perhaps because that the cameras are identical models (xbox live webcams)
Heres what i've got,
// Create the capture session
mCaptureSession = [[QTCaptureSession alloc] init];
mCaptureSessionB = [[QTCaptureSession alloc] init];
// Setup useful stuff
BOOL success = NO;
NSError *error;
QTCompressionOptions *compressionOptions = [QTCompressionOptions compressionOptionsWithIdentifier:@"QTCompressionOptions240SizeH264Video"];
// Find Devices
NSArray *deviceArray = [QTCaptureDevice inputDevicesWithMediaType:QTMediaTypeVideo];
QTCaptureDevice *videoDevice = [deviceArray objectAtIndex:1];
success = [videoDevice open:&error];
if (!success) {
videoDevice = nil;
// Handle error
mCaptureVideoDeviceInput = [[QTCaptureDeviceInput alloc] initWithDevice:videoDevice];
[mCaptureSession addInput:mCaptureVideoDeviceInput error:&error];
// create the movie file output and add it to the session
mCaptureOutput = [[QTCaptureMovieFileOutput alloc] init];
[mCaptureSession addOutput:mCaptureOutput error:&error];
// set the compression options for the movie file output
QTCaptureConnection *connection = [[mCaptureOutput connections] lastObject];
[mCaptureOutput setCompressionOptions:compressionOptions forConnection:connection];
[mCaptureViewA setCaptureSession:mCaptureSession];
[mCaptureSession startRunning];
// if ([[mCaptureVideoDeviceInput device] isOpen])
// [[mCaptureVideoDeviceInput device] close];
QTCaptureDevice *videoDevice2 = [deviceArray objectAtIndex:0];
success = [videoDevice2 open:&error];
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videoDevice2 = nil;
// Handle error
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[mCaptureSessionB addInput:mCaptureVideoDevice2Input error:&error];
mCaptureOutput2 = [[QTCaptureMovieFileOutput alloc] init];
[mCaptureSessionB addOutput:mCaptureOutput2 error:&error];
connection = [[mCaptureOutput2 connections] lastObject];
[mCaptureOutput2 setCompressionOptions:compressionOptions forConnection:connection];
[mCaptureViewB setCaptureSession:mCaptureSessionB];
[mCaptureSessionB startRunning];
Now initially I was only using 1 QTCaptureSession, which in theory will do fine but I seemed to the have same issues now despite using 2 separate Sessions. The program above will work, but it will only work for the first Input, (so if i was to switch the order that the camera is added to the session and later initialized then the other camera will now work). If I uncomment
// [[mCaptureVideoDeviceInput device] close]; then it will allow the second camera to work and kill the first, so obviously the two can't be open at the same time, but for both cameras success = [videoDevice2 open:&error]; will return YES so they're opening ok
I'm completely out of ideas on this, is there any unique identifier that i need to assign to the camera to stop it conflicting? how do i do that if it's the case ?
Any knowledge at all would be helpful - i've been scanning the docs top to bottom about QTCapture and i can't find even the slightest hint of this. Thanks!
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Wait, unless I got the wrong idea you, are you say that qtCapture is legacy? Thats odd, if you go to the audio and video section of the mac reference libarary it seems to point you in the direction of using qtCapture and follows it up with plenty of example code and docs whereas if you search qtCapture in legacy it returns only 2 documents - something about qtcapture.win and qtcapture on code warrior. Is there a newer alternative to qtCapture I've manage to miss?
I can find plent of info and docs on qtcapture but just no warnings of this confliction issue where it seems to let only 1 of the cameras become active at a time. Thanks for the responce

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.

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.. (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..
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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..

Insert source clip after multi-cam editing, how?

hello
I created a sequence using multiple clips and did all my colour corrections. Then I created a new sequence by dragging on new items, sequence is now green. Enabled Mulit-cam editing and started the process.
After i finished, I noticed two clips have blown highlights. Looking at original source I accidentally add two levels. I tried deleting the blown highlight clips and replace them with the original, this did not work too well.
Is there a method I can insert clips after multi-cam editing?
I hope all this makes senses.

Here's how I did it a few times:
1. Add video tracks (and audio tracks if needed) to your timeline to equal the number of cameras you have. Of course if you have more than 4 this will start to get impractical.
2. Edit in your clips from your different camera angles, one to each video track.
3. Double click each clip in turn to get it into the viewer and click the Motion tab. Change its scale to 50%.
4. Select each clip in turn in the timeline and move it to one corner of the canvas. You need to have "image + wireframe" selected in the Canvas popup menu in order to move it with the mouse.
You should now have up to 4 different camera angles shown at the same time in the Canvas, each in its own quadrant.
5. Now the hard part is to align each clip according to time. Hopefully you have some sort of visual cue you can use to align the clips.
6. Then play through the timeline and use the razor tool to cut the clips where you want a camera angle change.
7. Select each camera angle piece you want from each cut you made and change its scale back to 100% and center it at 0,0. Delete the unused clips.
8. If you want, you can move all the clips that remain back to v1 so that you can use transitions between them.
What to do with all the various audio is another question. I usually use the audio from the best source all the way through, only changing to the other camera angle's audio when necessary.

Multi-cam edit issues with multiple DSLR clips

Hello,
Working in CC. I have 2 camera angles that were filmed with 2 DSLRs, and mic'd audio that was recorded into a Zoom H4N. Audio recording never stopped, but due to the nature of DSLRs, the 2 cameras would stop recording every 12 +/- minutes. In this end, I have:
Camera 1 - 16 clips
Camera 2 - 17 clips
Zoom H4N - 1 track
When using the multi-cam source sequence option, it understandably thinks each clip is a new camera/angle. However, that's not very helpful for me when I have 17 angles (15 of which are blank) showing up in the program monitor. Any suggestions on how to better tackle this dilemma?
Thank You.

Thanks, Mark. Appreciate the quick response. After messing around, I combined your method with PluralEyes (seemed less tedious that syncing 17 clips manually). There might be a faster/easier way, but this is what I did, in case any one is curious (sounds more tedious than it actual is):
1. Select cam 1 clip 1, cam 2 clip 1 and external audio in the Browser.
2. Left-click, "create Multi-Camera Source Sequence." Two angles and audio are now in a multi-cam sequence. Rename as Multicam_Source_Sequence
3. Create new sequence, called Sequence_01 and open in timeline.
3. Excluding cam 1 clip 1 and cam 2 clip 1, drag all remaining clips of cam 1 to V1, all remaining cam 2 clips to V2, and single external audio to A3 into Sequence_01 timeline.
4. Launch Sequence_01 into PluralEyes 3. Sync and Export.
5. Open PluralEyes' "Sequence_01_synced" (not "Sequence_01_synced Replaced") in timeline.
6. Find a good marker point toward the beginning of the audio where it has synced cam 1 clip 2 and cam 2 clip 2. Cut at that point.
7. Copy all video tracks (exclude audio tracks).
8. Find Multicam_Source_Sequence and open in timeline (un-nested, so that all tracks are revealed).
9. Manually find the same audio marker point where you cut in Sequence_01_synced. Place playhead directly at cut point.
10. Paste video clips. All tracks are now synced in a multi-cam sequence.
From here, it's the usual steps for preparing multi-cam editing, like you mentioned.
11. Create new sequence, called Multicam_Working_Sequence. Open in timeline.
12. Make sure nesting button is turned on in timeline.
13. Drag Multicam_Source_Sequence into Multicam_Working_Sequence.
14. Right-click the nested sequence>Multi-Camera>Enable.
15. Enable Multi-camera view in Program Monitor's panel menu.
Voila! Took me awhile, but this works.And no 17 angles popping up in the program monitor. Let me know if you'd add (or remove) anything. Thanks, again!

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