bbeanan
07-13-2007, 10:57 AM
First if you do any sort of Muti-CAM work goto www.bobfx.com and buy his plug-in now.
So I am in the middle of editing a large (4 hours long) dance recital that I shot with 9 Sony Z1u cameras and have since captured as HDV *.Mt2 files with speed edit. Let me share some of the good and bad...
#1 Capturing This has worked out great put a tape in hit play and record ans SE does not start recording until it see the first frame, then SE stoppes when the last frame popps up. With my VT I would always have to keep checking on it so that I did'nt end up recording 5 minutes of blue once the tape ended. Now I start a tape a leave come back in "about" 70 minutes.
#2 Bobs Mutli-CAM!! Let me use say doing this project is only possible with Bob's Mutli-CAM plugin. Better yet Bob did a slight mod for me remapping the key and made it so easy to use I litterally let my 6 year old edit one of the numbers (the remap makes the number pad identical to the layout on the screen, so to select camera 1 I press the Num 7 key, sounds crazy but look at your num pad and how the screen layout for Multi-CAM and it should make sense)
#3 SE performance, well it is pretty good... I work very fast so I as I am scrubbing around syncing up videos I am getting random crashes. This is what is killing me as in order to edit this project I need to let SE do it's background render for the area I am working on before I can do anything, and when SE crashes I have to let it re-do the background render which since the section I am working on is about 1 hour long it takes like 2 hours to complete the background render for all 9 HDV clips.
Anyway I have to get back to it (I only have time to write this as SE crashed again and it is back up now ;) )
So I am in the middle of editing a large (4 hours long) dance recital that I shot with 9 Sony Z1u cameras and have since captured as HDV *.Mt2 files with speed edit. Let me share some of the good and bad...
#1 Capturing This has worked out great put a tape in hit play and record ans SE does not start recording until it see the first frame, then SE stoppes when the last frame popps up. With my VT I would always have to keep checking on it so that I did'nt end up recording 5 minutes of blue once the tape ended. Now I start a tape a leave come back in "about" 70 minutes.
#2 Bobs Mutli-CAM!! Let me use say doing this project is only possible with Bob's Mutli-CAM plugin. Better yet Bob did a slight mod for me remapping the key and made it so easy to use I litterally let my 6 year old edit one of the numbers (the remap makes the number pad identical to the layout on the screen, so to select camera 1 I press the Num 7 key, sounds crazy but look at your num pad and how the screen layout for Multi-CAM and it should make sense)
#3 SE performance, well it is pretty good... I work very fast so I as I am scrubbing around syncing up videos I am getting random crashes. This is what is killing me as in order to edit this project I need to let SE do it's background render for the area I am working on before I can do anything, and when SE crashes I have to let it re-do the background render which since the section I am working on is about 1 hour long it takes like 2 hours to complete the background render for all 9 HDV clips.
Anyway I have to get back to it (I only have time to write this as SE crashed again and it is back up now ;) )