Thanks for your replies, they are most helpful. These lead me to a couple of other questions.
Does Premiere 2 have better support for multicameras? Is it worth the upgrade for this feature? With regard to your comment about using the better audio source, I found the audio for one music event was very different for the two cameras - one camera picked up the vocals better and the other picked up the instruments. I would probably remix them into a stereo image, but am curious - is it possible to set up the audio in Premiere to be "quadraphonic" so that it would play back on a standard 5.1 surround sound DVD, like front left: camera #1 left front right: camera #1 right rear left: camera #2 left rear right: camera #2 right center, bass channels: (some mix of the above) or would this have to be done in some DVD authoring program? Would there be a sync or phasing problem? Thanks again --- In [email protected], "Jeff Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. You can change the length / duration of the clips by right-clicking them and choose Speed/Duration. Or, you can use the Rate Stretch Tool from the Tools palette, which will allow you to manually drag the In / Out handles of a clip and shorten/lengthen the clip in the Timeline window. > > However, in your case, the trick is going to be calculating how many frames it is off. Personally, I would go to the end of the longest clip, and count backwards to figure out how many frames the audio is off. Once you know that, you can right click on the long clip and choose Speed/Duration to shorten the duration by the desired # of frames. > > 2. 1.5 doesn't come with any built-in multicamera options, so you'll have to do this using two tracks. You're correct that Premiere only shows you the top most video track, when the two clips overlap. Again, this is a matter of preference, but I would put the better of the two clips on track 1. Then I would add to track 2 the "good chunks" of the other clip that I want to use. This can be done "additive" by keeping the second clip in the source monitor and only adding the portions that you want. Or you can do this "subtractive" by putting the second clip on track 2 and using the Razor tool to splice the areas you don't want and manually remove them. > > Ideally, one of the two clips has better audio, so you can completely remove the second audio. Multicameras, IMHO, look better when you've got one audio source, but with multiple video sources. > > > Jeff Schell www.jeffschell.com > · Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) · Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) > · On-Site, Classroom Training for Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore DVD, Photoshop > · Books: Premiere Pro 2 Hands-On-Training · Premiere Pro 1.5 H-O-T > · DVDs / Online Tutorials: Premiere Pro 2 Essential Training at Lynda.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Emma N. > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:02 AM > Subject: [AP] editing video from 2 camera sources (premiere pro 1-5) > > > Like the guy below I'm new to Premiere Pro 1.5 and have two video > clips of the same event taken from different angles. I figured out how > to view the clips in dual monitor mode in Premiere (the help files are > not that good), and drop markers on a distinguishing frame in each > clip and line up the markers in the event timeline. > > Now I have a couple questions > > 1) toward the end of the clips it seems they aren't synced, as if > camera #1 was running a little faster than camera #2. How can I get > Premiere to expand or squish (which is better?) one of the clips so > they both are the same length? > > 2) how can I transition from one camera source to the next? I have > camera #1 in Video 3 of the timeline (audio is in Audio 3) and camera > #2 in Video 2 of the timeline (audio in Audio 2), but when I try to > play them back all I see is camera 1 (I am hearing the audio from > both, which is how I can tell they're out of sync) > > Any help or reference to a good web tutorial or book would be greatly > appreciated... > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - view profile > Date: Fri, Jan 28 2005 4:49 am > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Groups: rec.video.desktop > Not yet rated > Rating: > show options > > Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show > original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author > > Hello All, > > I am new to video editing. And I need help. > > I have two video clips of the same event from two different angel, from > two diffrent camera. Now I need to make a single video clip, from these > two, taking different parts from different angel. > > So here what I am doing, first I put the clips in different track. > Video track 1 and Video track 2. The audio went 1 and 2 resepectively. > Now I want to synchronize them. Once done, I would cut parts from Video > track 1, so that in these places Video track 2 can be visible. And so > on... > > Is this the best way to do this? If so, how do I synchronize in Premier > Pro and how do cut off parts from tracks. > > If not, please give some tips, so that I can start. If possible, please > provide links Premier Pro tutorials. > > Thanks > > Reply Rate this post: Text for clearing space > > 2 > From: Digital Video Solutions - view profile > Date: Fri, Jan 28 2005 8:59 am > Email: "Digital Video Solutions" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Groups: rec.video.desktop > Not yet rated > Rating: > show options > > Reply | Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show > original | Report Abuse | Find messages by this author > > A better way to do it is using the dual monitor within Premiere. Place > one > video on a track so it appears in the right monitor window. Find some > distinct action or movement by the subject in the picture. Once you > find a > defining instance in the picture use the * key on the number pad to > place a > marker at that point. Drag the second video to the left monitor, find > that > same defining moment and then using single frame forward or backward > (right > arrow or left arrow) find the frame that matches the one in the right > monitor. Place a marker on it and then line up the markers on the > timeline. > > -- > Larry Johnson > Digital Video Solutions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.digitalvideosolutions.com > 877-227-6281 Toll Free Sales Assistance > 386-672-1941 Customer Service > 386-672-1907 Technical Support > 386-676-1515 Fax > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
