On the Video Collage Designer scroll down with the right-side scrollbar to Before/after clip playback at the bottom. Check Freeze the Video instead of selecting Restart playback.

Quote On the Video Collage Designer scroll down with the right-side scrollbar to Before/after clip playback at the bottom. Check Freeze the Video instead of selecting Restart playback.

Hi, thanks for your help. That will actually not help my problem. I have 4 video tracks of a song (different instruments playing) and i want to run while playing the movie different collage types, ot make it more interesting. But when I split the original tracks and then have in the clip part after the split a new colleag template, the clips start all from the beginning and not at the point where I did the split. Thus my music always starts again with each collage type change. It must be possible to change this, right?

Have you thought of doing pre-cuts at the points where you want the changes and adding those to the new template?

I've no idea if that would work but it might be worth trying.

Regards

Phil

I use Pre-cuts on collage videos too as Philwild indicated and they work properly. Scroll down to the Advanced Settings button, click it and choose Match collage duration to one of the several selections like maybe shortest clip then you know it won’t repeat.

Quote Have you thought of doing pre-cuts at the points where you want the changes and adding those to the new template?

I've no idea if that would work but it might be worth trying.

Regards

Phil

Sounds like a good idea. Thanks for that. I tried that, but in the media window I do not see then these pre-cut clips, only the main uncut clip is available. and if I choose it, it will start with template change again from the beginning. So I guess you know a way how to select in the collage template these pre-cut clips? Give me a hint please.

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Sounds like a good idea. Thanks for that. I tried that, but in the media window I do not see then these pre-cut clips, only the main uncut clip is available. and if I choose it, it will start with template change again from the beginning. So I guess you know a way how to select in the collage template these pre-cut clips? Give me a hint please.

Actually, just watched the tutorial. Pre-cut clips work differently, it is not spliiting. So great tip. thanks a lot.

However, if I have 4 tracks and want to have the pre-cut in all four tracks at the same timing, how do I get this done efficiently?

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Actually, just watched the tutorial. Pre-cut clips work differently, it is not spliiting. So great tip. thanks a lot.

However, if I have 4 tracks and want to have the pre-cut in all four tracks at the same timing, how do I get this done efficiently?

Anybody out there who has an idea how to do the same pre-cut in different tracks in ordre to make sure they are all synchronized?

I dont think that there is an easy way of doing this.
If I were to do this, I would probably go like this:
a) Put all four tracks in the timeline and sync them by audio.
b) make sure that the starting point of all four tracks is equal, by cutting off the start bits of each and dragging them to the start point in the track. I would also do the same at the end, just to make sure that I have 4 pieces if video in each track that are audio-synced and of equal length.
c) I would for each track either cut pieces manually or use pre-cut which ever is easier. And I would do this artificially by selecting points in each video that are artistically nice and I would make sure to cut all videos at precisely the same moments. This is why the complete sync is important. You can use the time code in each. I would make sure that each of the pieces can be recognized: from which track/video and which number in the sequence.
d) make a collage, making use of the correct sequence numbers selecting precuts. Because all the pieces have the same length you have to make sure that the collage videos all start at once. Making also sure that the collage sequence is still recognizable.
e) the result of the collages can be produced separately (in separate projects even), but I would certainly try to see the result of the sequence of collages first.
f) once completed I would produce the result into a high quality video
g) I would also make a multicam video with the fout videos and do some proper directors/editors work with them and procedure the result of this also in high quality.
h) I would them use both the collage (f) and multicam (g) video and put them in the multicam again to make sure that I can edit-out the weak collage results if any.
Of course the preciseness in step c) and d) are vital to this approach.
It will take some effort to get this done I imagine.
Hope this helps, or triggers you (others) to further and brighter insights.