Multicam Audio

[antonsvideo]

I do my colour correction after multicam edit. Multicam will run a lot faster/smoother if there are no filters on the clips. When done I correct a clip from each track and save filter set as a named preset. Clear all filters from the tracks and apply these named filters.

Ctrl+A to select the track. ctrl+shift+alt +F will delete all filters from the selected track. Ctrl+A to select the track then drag the named filter over the track to apply to all clips on the track.

It's easy then to check through and see if each clip needs the same correction or modify the filter set on the particular clip.

Ron Evans

carefull with ctrl+shift+alt +F

with the current version, this can remove the layouter and then EDIUS will crash on the spot

try and add a few filters to a few clips, then use Shift+A or CTRL+A and then ctrl+shift+alt +F and let me know if it crahes

do this on a test project only

[Ron Evans]

Anton, seems to work fine on my system. Does not remove layouter on my system. However one has to be very patient for long projects and give it time to complete. Cursor turns in to a little down arrow and if you try and do anything before this returns to a normal cursor Edius will crash. Edius 6.05 is very slow to remove or apply filters to a whole track. Now I have figured out what was happening it works every time. Yes I can make it crash every time I want too!!! Same with naming a filter set. Needs time and then a project save to set name. Very strange, lets hope the next update is soon!!!

For Philip. I use the XDCAM EX clip browser to transfer clips from EX to a source directory that I create for each project for all the camera files, as I do with the Content Management for the NX5U or PMB for the other cameras. Then I import from this directory to the bin using Clip Browser and drag clips to the bin. I backup all this source directory with my tape drive to LTO3 tape. I do all this transfer and backup before I do anything else. No video tapes to fall back on with file based cameras!!!

Ron Evans

[plasma_video]

Hi Ron.

I know we've had this discussion before - the flexibility of Edius to do the same things in different ways is what makes it great.

I still edit the productions in 16:9 SD for DVD delivery for now, so using the CC filters as I describe has not been a problem at all. I can certainly see how it would bog down on an HD edit.

In fact, though, one of the beauties of doing it the sequence route, is that you also don't have to apply the cc filter until you've got the final multicam edit done, and then you can apply the cc AFTER the edits, and the correction will carry over - even after compressing to a single track. You can then do just one cc tweak in the errant camera sequence, and it carries over to the finished project.

I can't remember exactly why I started doing it this way, rather than the copy/paste filter method, although I think it started when I had left a camera or two in auto by mistake once, and the color temp wandered all over depending on the area of the stage and the lighting changes.

Rather than try to cc all those little clips separately at the light changes in the multicam mode, I used the sequence trick and keyframed the corrections. There was another reason as well, but I'll be darned if I can remember. I also just happen to like nested sequences!

Got another one to edit next month, so I'll maybe go back and do it differently. I always learn by doing it differently.

The fun comes trying to sync the various aux audio sources - the Zoom H2 from the combo and piano, the MiniDisc from the PA system, and the main camera with the ORTF miced stage pickup. I usually do some of this in another app.

Tom

PS - let me clarify that the cc is applied to the video within the individual sequence - not to the sequence on the timeline in the master multicam sequence.

[Ron Evans]

Tom
I do all my audio edits in Vegas and that is where I mix in the audio from other sources. Use the audio track from the closeup camera as the sync guide so that I know that lip sync is always correct. We use a mix of Zoom stuff, H4, H2 and R16.

Ron Evans

[plasma_video]

Yeah, I didn't want to mention the "V" word, but that's one of the apps I use. I also use Sound Forge and an old copy of Cool Edit Pro (prior to becoming Audition).

Not a lot you can't do with that combination. Right now, the only other thing I wish I had was Izotope RX, although the NR in Sound Forge is pretty darn good.