Mr. Brightside Cover And QUESTION Regarding Multi-Cam Transitions?

[ZANDER1994]

Hello. So recently I started doing full covers with multiple instruments. Below is an example of something I did with the older brother a few weeks ago. It came out nice, but I really want to avoid the time-consuming process I used to create this for future videos. Basically I imported each video of each instrument into windows movie maker and proceeded to spend ALL DAY cutting and pasting, writing down start and stop times and deleting the in-betweens in order to create the synced video with the music. It seems like it would make more sense for a program to allow you to line up all the videos' start times, and then choose when and where you wanted to switch between them. I drew a picture of what I WANT to do below for all you spatials. Does anyone know of a program that can do this easily? I know iMovie has a cutaway feature that seems exactly what I'm talking about but I'm running on pc. Comments about the video are welcome as well

 

[gecko zzed]

Try Vegas. Moviemaker doesn't do a bad job, but it is really not up to the task that you have in mind.

 

[ZANDER1994]

Try Vegas. Moviemaker doesn't do a bad job, but it is really not up to the task that you have in mind.

I did at one time use Vegas but it seemed like such a ballsy program for little projects like this. Despite having a high spec desktop running it, the preview screen often fell out of sync and the export times were ridiculous. I will research to see if it has this function but hopefully there are other simpler options??

 

[VomitHatSteve]

This has been my concern for a while too. I want a video program that functions much like my DAW. i.e. I can line up each camera, etc. as a "take" and then split and switch between takes at will along a timeline.
Does vegas work like that then?

Avidemux and Windows Movie Maker sure don't.

 

[gecko zzed]

Vegas works like Reaper, so yes you can line up each camera take, and split them where you want.

Video inherently is a big consumer of CPU and space, so the more powerful the computer, the better. Rendering times vary according to what template you are using to render to.

The ability of the preview screen to keep up depends on the format of the video you've loaded up. For example, m2ts files are fairly economical, but AVI isn't (specially if uncompressed).

The same applies to rendering.

 

[polarity]

I have nothing to add on the video part.

For the cover part though, I enjoyed it. Drums sounded good to me (on headphones at work not in front of monitors right now to listen). Couple small timing issues with the vocal but I had a good time listening.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Sony Vegas. You can set the preview quality to draft (low resolution) to make it keep up better with playback. Converting .mov files to .avi files also helps as there seems to be a conflict between Vegas and Quicktime (for which I arbitrarily blame Apple).

 

[TimOBrien]

I did at one time use Vegas but it seemed like such a ballsy program for little projects like this.

Get the $50 Vegas Studio. 80% of the features of the big version (and you'll never miss the other 20%)
I've used it for music videos and commercial projects for years.

Windows Movie Maker is just the wrong program to use.

 

[KatieHullMusic]

Final Cut X has a multicam feature that does this. But you could also just line them up to the music and sync by hand. No need for timestamps or anything, just make fine adjustments until the video is in sync with the music.