You need to disable all of the tracks above the one you want to work on. There is a little lock symbol at the left of each track. Click on it. If you want to view track 2, then track 3 and above must be disabled. Once you have you editing done, you can enable them to preview your movie. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Hi Lucy -

TonyFish (not me) was asking a similar question recently... http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/18126.page

Something in that thread might help you.

Cheers - Tony
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I had to look twice at that thread. I thought you changed your name for a second. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Hi Lucy,

With a multi-camera edit, I find it’s helpful to create a multi-monitor setup within the Preview screen. (see attached image)

Place the clips in their respective tracks, and then resize them in the preview screen, so you can see all the tracks at the same time (like a video wall).
Edit your project, and once you’re done editing, resize the clips to full screen.

PowerDirector Tutorials are available here…
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7782.page#53055

And here…
http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/tutorial/


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Thank you both!

This isn't quite like other editors I have worked with, but I love some of the features. I think I can get through this wedding. I had read the manual, and practiced most of the tutorial, but your practical tips really helped with this 3 camera editing.

ScubaLucy

You might want to watch the tutorial on "Video Wall"

If you use PIP, you can have final cut on main track (blank or color board) initally and each of your camera views on the other three panels of the "wall". Each camera view on a separate video track. Once syncronized, then do copy desired sections to main track. That would let you see which view is best and what the "final cut" will look like.

There are setting to keep the cuts from moving on time line.

Might take a little while to set up, but will give you an "editing studio" feel.

The "wall" itself might be a good segment, say the vows from three angles with a zoom or two. RTX 2060 SUPER 8GB GDDR6
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Wow Cranston! That is exactly what I need. I have been scouring the manual as I haven't found the multi-monitor set up. I assume that I disable the Snap to Reference and then enable the Dual Preview???

I see only the corners of the frames and I am not sure how to see all three whole clips.

Thank you
Scubalucy

Hi Lucy,

You don’t need to enable the dual preview, and yes, turning off the Snap Too feature helps so you can freehand the individual sizes.

Just highlight a clip in your time line (so it has the borderline around it- see link below), and grab a corner and drag it towards the middle to re-size and place it where you want.
Or you can open each clip in PIP Designer (via the Modify button), and do the same.

Once you have edited your clips, and have discarded the unwanted sequences, you can either drag the kept sequences to a single track, or leave them where they are.
(Note: You probably will want to have the Snap To “on” when re-sizing back to full screen.)

A low res quick demo is available here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyQF9y5u6ak


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