In Post Production Tutorial we have been looking at editing multi-camera footage in Avid, this was my first time editing multi-camera in Avid and I found it difficult at first but eventually I managed to understand the technique. Personally I found editing this video would be easier than using a vision mixer to cut between shots because it allows you to correct any mistakes in the post production stage.
To start this process, you need to find a sync point in each of your clips. Finding a sync point allows your footage to be synced up and you can cut between shots with ease.
By enabling the quad split in Avid's command pallet, you can group up to 4 different camera feeds in the preview screen. By using the quad split you are able to group all the clips together by the chosen sync point so it will all play together correctly.
After that is done, multi-camera mode needs to be enabled so you can edit your footage in a vision mixer style. The shortcut for multi-camera mode is shift-control-m. When you play your sequence, you can chose from the 4 different camera feeds in the quad split by selecting them, selecting a camera feed will edit the clip into your sequence. By doing this you can save time instead of cutting between four camera feeds in one timeline, and it can save a lot of confusion by using just one video track instead of four.
This editing technique would be useful for editing from Gaucho our scene for Production Technology, to film the scene we used 2 cameras so it is a multi-camera shoot.
Our previous edit of this scene had audio issues which wouldn't allow us to sync the audio, also acting mistakes caused problems for the continuity. Now that I have learnt multi-camera editing, I feel more prepared for our reshoot and I feel more confident that we can edit it correctly this time.
No comments:
Post a Comment