Video Editing

[Dave Youell]

I’m after some software for editing wrestling shows, I’d have 1 hardcam and 1 roaming cam.

Is there some editing software which I can run both films at the same time and then switch between views whilst recording the final version

In the same way that a live TV editor would switch between cameras during a live feed

Anyone have any idea what I’m talking about? I’m just trying to find an easier and quicker way than showing 1 angle, stopping the edit, then loading up the new file from a different angle.

[darkpower]

I'm biased about Vegas, so that's what I would suggest to have you try, though I'm not too sure if it can do that. I assume you're going to be making a master tape of the show after it's done (well, either that or live TV, which is a beast to perform and something that I wouldn't know how to help you there).

What I would do in the program (under those assumptions and also under the assumptions that you're a novice with Vegas, since Adobe Premiere might not work in exactly the same way) is to do the following:

- Get BOTH videos onto your computer however you would do it, but not do anything yet.
- Open Vegas, start a new project (the dialog box that comes up is pretty self explanitory and the program does a good job in explaining things) put your two videos into the timeline. You'll have two layers containing a video each, and two audio layers (each containing the same audio, I'd assume). I don't know if you would want to just drop one of the audio layers or not (since when you switch to the other camera's video, the audio would still be from the first video, but that's the easy way out).
- Now, on the TOP LAYER, click to the point in the timeline in which you would want to switch to the other camera (you can "zoom in" on the timeline by using the scroll wheel when the timeline is active to get it down to the precise millisecond), then click "Edit > Split" (to split your top video), and then go to the place where you'd switch back to the first camera, do Edit> Split again (make sure the top video is selected. You'll know because the white area of the timeline object you have selected will become brown), then select the interem video piece (the one that has been severed), and then drop it. You will now have the video have nothing on the top layer, so nothing is obstructing the bottom layer's view (you don't need to do anything with the bottom layer, obviously). Do this in the same way when you want to switch the cameras. It's a bit time consuming, but effective (the only way I know how to, I'm still learning some of the program's more fancy features).
- Once you have the video how you want it (SAVE OFTEN!! 7.0, although mostly stable, might crash without notice or reason. 6.0 has much less risk than 7.0), go to "File > Render As...", and then save to whatever file format you need, and do the render.

Again, I don't know exactly if this is acceptable for you to do or not, but this would be what I would do (and I know I treated you as dumb with video programs, but I never use Premiere, so I don't know if it works the same or not).

[Dave Youell]

Thanks man, so is there any free versions off Vegas I can acquire?

Guess there’s no way to just stream it with a quick change, no probs, guess it’s just going to take a while, no biggie.

Thanks

[darkpower]

Thanks man, so is there any free versions off Vegas I can acquire?

Guess there’s no way to just stream it with a quick change, no probs, guess it’s just going to take a while, no biggie.

Thanks

Unfortunatly, no free version (that I know of, at least) exists of Vegas, although there IS Vegas Movie Studio 8 that costs a LOT less than the full on version (not sure how watered down it is, though, from the real Vegas).

Thing is, though, Vegas is REALLY easy to crack (MUCH easier than Premiere, and Sony doesn't seem to care as much as Adobe is going to, from my experience), and if you get the right stuff, you'll be going in no time.