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Master video and then putting "cut" scenes in the middle of it.
tatu54 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 15, 2007 09:01 Messages: 28 Offline
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I spend my Sundays videoing my church and its preacher giving the sermon. Up until now I have had one video camera. I bought a new one a while back so now I have two.

I use the new one primarily to capture Chris giving the sermon. The second (old) video camera is used at the front of the church capturing the audience..

I would like to have as the "main" video of Chris giving his sermon and taking some of the crowd video off the second camera and inserting a few seconds of them here and there during the sermon. first off, I have never been able tp put a clip in the middle of another clip. It either goes on the front end or the back end.

And just because I know I am going to have to ask this question when I get a good answer is, "What am I going to do with the sound in the inserted clips?"

I know they are not going to match up.

Follow? If so, can ya help me out? If not let me know and I will try to re-state what I am trying to do.

Dale I never said I was smart, just pretty to look at...

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David [Avatar]
Newbie Location: England Joined: Dec 09, 2007 19:18 Messages: 45 Offline
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Right, what you need to do is to move to the point in the timeline where you would like to insert the take from the second camera, and 'split' the the first video. Then you can drop in stills or a few seconds of video.

For the sound, I would probably fade one out at the same time as fading the other in, it depends on what the sound is like to how good an effect this gives.
Kintara [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Bristol, England, UK Joined: Aug 29, 2007 15:43 Messages: 38 Offline
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Much, much simpler than that!

Have the Sermon video on the time line. At any selected point drop the Audience video onto the Picture In Picture (PIP) track, and adjust the length of the clip to suit your needs. Right click on the PIP and mute the sound. Double click the PIP and you will be taken to the edit room where you can stretch the PIP object to fill the screen and cover up the Sermon video..
Job done!
Proper Job!

If your cameras are syncronised then put the whole of the sermon on the time line and the whole of teh audience on the PIP track. Split the PIP (audience track) into segments and delete the bits where you want the sermon to be seen. The final output will then switch between the two at your discretion and will be a proper "live" audience reaction to the sermon as it is read (or whatever).

Best of luck

Kintara

PD6 v1731b

Dont forget to RTFM (available from the download section of the Cyberlink site http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/download/guides_4_ENU.html ) Page 130 describes how to Add or modify a Picture In Picture)

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tatu54 [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 15, 2007 09:01 Messages: 28 Offline
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hmmm...

I was posting a question to the PD forum and started looking a little deeper to see if I could find anything like an answer I was looking for. I ran across this post I made a while back.

I usually get an e-mail from whoever telling me I have a responce to whatever I have/had posted.

Not this time! I've checked all the way back to November and nothing. I wonder if I might have unchecked that particular e-mail thingie sometime. Gotta check that.

Thanks for the answers people. Will give the a try.

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Ludrick Nerell [Avatar]
Newbie Location: Kingstree, SC Joined: Jan 24, 2008 18:56 Messages: 29 Offline
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I was looking for the same answer, but doesn't PiP shows a small box of the video in the middle of the main video track? How do I make the PiP show like the main video? Only God Can Judge Me...
Dafydd B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline
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Click the Modify button... just above the time-line. (PD7)

Dafydd
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