X2

104 Multicam editing
Multicam editing
Multicam editing enables easy cutting of various recordings of the same scene from
different camera perspectives. The preview monitor shows the image material from up to
with the mouse.
Preparation
Multicam editing is a special mode of the arranger. The top two tracks serve as target
tracks where sound and video are copied from up to four different source tracks. The two
top tracks must be empty when multicam mode is switched on, or the existing object will
be moved to a different track.
Next, load various video recordings of the same scene one below the other, starting on
track 3 in the arranger.
It is important that the individual sources are synchronized to each other exactly. It is best
to find a noticeable movement, or an "o" sound, if audio was recorded.
four sources next to each other, and the material can be cut in real time
To localize the sound in the audio track exactly, you may have to create a wave display of
the track. Right click on the sound track and choose "Create wave form display".
You can use a clapperboard during filming, since this offers both sound and motion; an
actor's clapping in front of running camera before the start of the scene is also helpful. Set
a grid point at this position in the object (shortcut "Alt + Shift + P"). You can now move the
rces with sound tracks can be automatically synchronized using their audio
source objects over each other so that the grid points are aligned.
Two video sou
material. To do this, use the
"Align with other audio objects" (view page 107) function from
the context menu of audio objects.
Activ
"Edit
ate "Multicam" mmand in the
" menu.
Source and preview images
ent of tracks a e automatically.
When "Multicam" mode is activated, the source tracks will be assigned to all tracks
mode with this button or with the "Multicam" co
The assignm s source tracks for the multicam cut takes plac
containing video objects starting from track 3.