I have an idea for a toot.
Recently Idiscovered a different way to use the multi-cam designer.
Here's a scenario:
I have footage from four cameras that show the same action from different angles, and I have audio from a seperate audio recorder. I synch them all up with MCD, but instead of pressing record and then selecting from the different views on the fly and then taking the output all in one long sequence, I only want selected portions of the footage.
Here's what I do;
I scrub through the synched footage in MCD until I find a section that I want. I look at the different camera views and select the one I want. Then I press the record button and then stop when I've got the clip that I want. Then I scrub to the next section that I want in the output. This DOESN'T have to directly follow on from the previous clip. Then I select the view I want and press record again. Repeat for as many portions of the footage as I want. The clips
don't have to be contiguous. When I'm finished, I will have
only the shots that I want from the synched footage, synchronised with the audio.
As a follow on from this, I can render the MCD generated footage to a new file. Then, I use that file in a project and using the scene detection process, I can split this composite clip into the original clips, but arrange them on the timeline in a different order to what they were shot.
It would probably be easier to understand this process if it was demonstrated in a PD Toot, but I don't have the software tools to do this.
Scott Hendry
www.scotthendry.com
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