Software To Make A 4-cam Mix

[Nomad]

I'm trying to make a 4-cam mix from a tallica-show - which software do you recommend?

For authoring I'm using dvd lab pro...

[sorrowman]

I'm not an experienced Cam-Mix maker or anything, but I image one would need software such as Adobe Premiere or maybe Ulead Video Studio or something like that, the 'hardcore' video-editing programs I suppose. I guess you need to import all different sources into the same project and then mix it together by putting transitions from one source to another in there and when that's done render it down to an MPEG file you can use in your authoring programm.

[infernall]

Sony Vegas is also cool.

[jarrur]

Premiere has the new multicam function. It ables you to watch simultaniously 4 different sources and you can quickly edit the sources you wanna add to your project.

[sorrowman]

I'm not an experienced Cam-Mix maker or anything, but I image one would need software such as Adobe Premiere or maybe Ulead Video Studio or something like that, the 'hardcore' video-editing programs I suppose.

The 'hardcore' video editing programmes are not Premiere or Video Studio, but Avid and Final Cut just to name two... Nothing I would suggest a Newbie to start with.

The one programme to use at home, as it is pretty easy and almost self-explanatory is Sony Vegas Video. I only use it for audio synching, but I got explained how cam mixing basically works on it and is easy really... just a lot of work.

I was actually meaning that making a cam-mix is comparatively 'hard-core' video-editing, and ofcourse Final Cut Pro is the real deal when we're talking video-editing, but I think relatively few people have access to such equipment (Apple machine) and software (Final Cut Pro).

Ofcourse with all due respect to the people making and maybe attempting to make cam-mixes, but it's just that I feel it's something that is sometimes a bit overlooked or perhaps under-rated. Some people think if they can re-author a DVD they can do a Cam-Mix too, but in real life it's actually a radically different part in the overall process of putting together a DVD from scratch up to the point it can be trade out or seeded on the trackers or something. With my rather limited knowledge of video-editing I think it takes a good deal of time and effort to make a good cam-mix. It's not something you do like overnight

[sorrowman]

Oh, I did not mean it that way, don't get me wrong... I have the highest respect for the people doing the great cam-mixes we have on our trade lists, and I could never be arsed to put that much time and effort into putting them together. I'd rather have my lazy ass on the couch and watch them , although I have both, Mac and Final Cut Pro...

What I meant though is, the basic process of doing a cam mix is pretty easy, the hard thing is doing nice transitions, as in perfectly seamless and the right mix of blends without overdoing it. All this comes down to both, talent and practice... you can try as hard as you want, without talent it will either always look like an MTV mix, no feeling for the music and band or just plain amateur and without a shitload of practice, all your talent doesn't help shit, you will never be able to put out mixes like Tim and Dylan... as those guys have both (not to sound disrespectfull towards the others around doing cam mixes, but those are the two names that immediately come to mind by now)

ye, that was pretty much what I was trying to say as well