Multi-camera editing

I'm running out of space on my Elephant drive.

I've had my Mac for almost a year now and the external media drive that I bought with it is almost full now. I analyzed the drive to find out what was taking up the most space. Last November we had a guest speaker, Claude Robold, at my church. I videotaped him - those files have been sitting on my drive since then taking up space. I had to delete the files or do something with them so that I could complete a project and archive the files in order to reclaim the space. I wasn't willing to delete the files yet, not without doing something with them first.

I ended up editing what was about a one-hour message down to 18 minutes.

Chuck had videotaped the speaker as well. Something I've wanted to do was a multi-camera edit, so I asked Chuck if I could get a copy of his video, which he let me.

I also had an audio track which did not come from either of the two cameras. I had recorded the audio off the soundboard, so it was not synchronized with the video. I was working with two non-synchronized video tracks and one non-synchronized audio track. By non-synchronized, I mean that the moment at which the speaker's mouth moved (in the video track) did not line up with the moment at which he uttered a sound (in the audio track). The first thing I did was manually synchronize the audio with each of the two video tracks separately. Once I did that, it meant that the two video tracks were also synchronized to each other.

At this point I had about an hour or so of content which I edited down to 18 minutes. The next thing to do is make an edit in which I select the points in time where I want to switch from one camera to the other.