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Synchronizing multicamera video clips
In order to effectively edit multicamera footage within Vegas Pro, you must have your video clips synchronized. The best place to do
this is the timeline, using the same Vegas Pro editing tools as you would for any video project.
1. Start a new project or open an existing project to which you want to add the multicamera video. For more information, see
Starting a new project on page 37.
2. From the Options menu, choose Quantize to Frames if it is not already selected. For more information, see Quantizing to frames
on page 104.
3. From the Options menu, choose Ignore Event Grouping to turn it off. For more information, see Suspending grouping
temporarily on page 191.
4. Select your clips in the Project Media window. For more information, see Using the Project Media window on page 42.
5. Add your clips to the timeline:
• For clips with synchronized timecode, choose Multicamera from the Tools menu, and then choose Lay Out Tracks Using
Media Timecode from the submenu.
• For clips without synchronized timecode, choose Multicamera from the Tools menu, and then choose Lay Out Tracks
Using Media Date/Time Stamp from the submenu.
The result is a pair of tracks for each camera, with events aligned based on the timecode or date/time stamp of each clip. If your
scenes were captured with synchronized timecode, your clips should be in perfect alignment. Otherwise, you’ll need to adjust
the alignment to synchronize the clips. The goal is to align the clips in time so the synchronization points you recorded occur at
the same timeline position for all clips.
Adjusting alignment using audio waveforms
If you used a slate or a loud clap for your synchronization point, you can align the events to within a frame of each other using the
audio waveforms.
1. Use the zoom controls ( ) at the bottom-right corner of the timeline to zoom in on the waveform.
2. Drag a track’s border to make the tracks taller and view large waveforms.
3. Use Shift+Up Arrow to magnify the waveforms if necessary.
4. Click the event and press 1 or 3 on the numeric keypad to nudge the event by frames to the left or right, respectively.
Adjusting alignment using video
You can also align your events using the video.
1. Solo the video track.
2. Position the cursor at the synchronization point and drag over the event’s snap offset so it snaps to the cursor. For more
information, see Using the event snap offset on page 105.
3. Repeat these steps for each clip.
4. Drag the cursor to a snap point, and then snap the other clips to the cursor.
Note: These steps require snapping to be enabled, so if you have not already done so, turn snapping on by clicking the Enable
Snapping button ( ). For more information, see Snapping events on page 103.