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pjc3 - Thanks - I can see how your method would work very well as long as the entire concert was continuous. If the concert had breaks in the middle is there a way to delete portions of the master track AND the video cut track maintaining sync between the remaining portions of the two tracks, or would you have to re-synch every time you make a delete in the middle?
Spiral - I'd add or alter some intro title screens for example.
Thanks for your help. I'm just coming up to speed with PD!
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Jaime-esque - I am using the master track for the audio and muting the clips from the second camera. However, it is necessary to get the 2nd camera clips synced exactly to sound of the master track to make the mouth movements in the 2nd camera clips synchronize with the sound track from the first camera. I was recording a concert so any games regarding switching from the master sound track to the second camera sound would sound really bad.
Spiral - Thanks for the reply. Good point - using separate tracks for each clip would partially solve the problem. I'll experiment with this idea. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to lock the relative time positions from clips in separate tracks. If I make a change to master track in front of the synced clips, it will ruin the sync between the clips in other tracks. Am I missing something? So if you get the master track edited exactly the way you want it, and then add the 2nd camera clips to other tracks this method will work. However, I always WANT to change it, but it's just too much work to have to resync every clip AGAIN. Using drag and drop to make fine synchronization adjustments is just a bad UI; I constantly overdo my adjustments - I wish there was a way to make frame-at-a-time clip positioning changes using the arrow keys. And then once I achieve perfect sync, there should be a way to truly lock the synced clips together so it would be impossible to change the relative timings of the clips no matter what you do to either track involved (unless you unlock the clips of course).
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I recently shot a video of a concert where I used 2 cameras. One camera was used as the master audio track and full stage view. The other camera was for taking close ups of performers. I used powerDirector 9 to edit this video. Getting the 2nd camera shots to sync up with the master track audio was VERY VERY PAINFUL and made me want to scream. You should try it sometime and see how difficult this is to do. Does anyone know a good way to do this?
The only way I could do it was by expanding the timeline and using drag and drop. Unfortunately it's very hard to make the small changes necessary to get the clips synced up accurately using this method. The other aspect of doing this that is very difficult is you must make these synchronizations in time order of the video. Forget about going back and inserting or deleting a cut video because it will ruin the sync of all clips that come after it!!! I spent hours and hours trying to do what I wanted to do and ended up completely starting over multiple times.
Suggestions to the PowerDirector programmers to make this process much easier:
1) You should be able to SLIDE a clip back and forth on a timeline a SINGLE frame at a time. I suggest holding down a control or ALT key at the same time as you press the left right arrow keys when a clip is selected. Trying to make these adjustments using drag and drop is very difficult because it's not accurate enough. Sliding a single clip frame at a time should have NO impact only any other clip on the same timeline - UNLESS the other clips are grouped with the clip you are sliding.
2) When you drag a clip into a timeline you need to be able to control whether it is an insert or replace (IF there's any video to right of that clip) EVEN WHEN the clip is not dragged on top of another clip. If you've already synced a clip and drag a new clip in front of it - it will ruin all syncing you've done after it!!! Same for deleting a clip. If I decide to remove a cut clip, it ruins all the later syncing I've done on that track.
3) Locking the clips together in a group should freeze the relative time position of the clips. It doesn't in the current program so making any changes in front of previously synced clips ruins the synchronization.
If it's possible to do any of the above and I just couldn't figure out how to do it - please let me know.
The speed of PD9 is awesome!!
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