Need help synching footage in Vegas or AVISynth

HighInBC · 14th December 2005, 21:50

I have footage from my wedding from 4 different DV cam's, all have timecodes in the DV stream.

Is there a simple way to lay out the clips from the 4 camera's on the timeline in vegas to match their timecodes?

So I can put all 4 camera's video in 4 different video channels, but the timecodes be locked together? I would think this would be a very basic feature.

Thanks!

Is there a way to do this with avisynth?

Mug Funky · 18th December 2005, 14:24

i believe there's an avisynth plug that reads timecode from DV files, but i'm not sure if it returns a string or just internally uses "subtitle(string(TC))" or whatever.

if you can get a string out of that plugin, you could write a function to trim or pad 2 clips so they line up with each other.

[edit]

btw, congratulations on getting married

defaulk9 · 19th December 2005, 14:52

Yes, yes. Congratulations!

I don't use Vegas personally, but I'd be surprised if you could do exactly what you're expecting to do. To be able to use timecodes to synchronize video effectively, you'd have to have started all cameras at exactly the same time, all with brand new tapes. that way, 00:00:00 would equal the same point in time for all of them. Otherwise, it would make no sense for you to match timecode in this way.

What I recommend doing to synchronize is to find a very definable moment in the action that all cameras were able to "see". Then match each of those up to the same time. I'm speaking vaguely about this because I use Premiere Pro, so the method of doing it is probably different. I just set a marker on something like a camera flash, and I mark every clip at that same flash. Then I line them up on the timeline that way, and they will stay in synch with each other throughout.

Of course this only works as long as your camera men kept the video rolling the entire time. Every time someone stops recording and starts again, there's one more clip you have to match up.

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HighInBC Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Victoria, BC, Canada Posts: 144	Need help synching footage in Vegas or AVISynth I have footage from my wedding from 4 different DV cam's, all have timecodes in the DV stream. Is there a simple way to lay out the clips from the 4 camera's on the timeline in vegas to match their timecodes? So I can put all 4 camera's video in 4 different video channels, but the timecodes be locked together? I would think this would be a very basic feature. Thanks! Is there a way to do this with avisynth?

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Mug Funky interlace this! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: i'm in ur transfers, addin noise Posts: 4,267	i believe there's an avisynth plug that reads timecode from DV files, but i'm not sure if it returns a string or just internally uses "subtitle(string(TC))" or whatever. if you can get a string out of that plugin, you could write a function to trim or pad 2 clips so they line up with each other. [edit] btw, congratulations on getting married __________________ interlace... right or wrong, just deal with it.

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19th December 2005, 14:52	#3 \| Link
defaulk9 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 58	Yes, yes. Congratulations! I don't use Vegas personally, but I'd be surprised if you could do exactly what you're expecting to do. To be able to use timecodes to synchronize video effectively, you'd have to have started all cameras at exactly the same time, all with brand new tapes. that way, 00:00:00 would equal the same point in time for all of them. Otherwise, it would make no sense for you to match timecode in this way. What I recommend doing to synchronize is to find a very definable moment in the action that all cameras were able to "see". Then match each of those up to the same time. I'm speaking vaguely about this because I use Premiere Pro, so the method of doing it is probably different. I just set a marker on something like a camera flash, and I mark every clip at that same flash. Then I line them up on the timeline that way, and they will stay in synch with each other throughout. Of course this only works as long as your camera men kept the video rolling the entire time. Every time someone stops recording and starts again, there's one more clip you have to match up.