[MacDV] Re: Suggestions for sound capture at wedding

[Mark O'Brien]

On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 08:30  PM, Fabian Ius wrote:

>> But iMovie is unsuited to editing 2
>> video streams, you'll need FCP or FCE.
> Not really.
>
> If you have GeeThree's plug-ins, as well as others, you can do some 
> neat picture-in-picture, splitscreen, B-roll edits, etc.
>
> Yes, it would be neat if iMovie had more than one video line, but 
> Montage (mentioned in another posting), might be an option as well.  
> Premiere6 (for OS9) is another alternative, but not sure about its OSX 
> capability.
>

My problem with trying to edit two video streams in iMovie is to keep 
the sound in synch. Last year I video-taped my son's band at an event. 
I put one camcorder on a tripod and left it running. I used another for 
closeups and different angles. Using the tripod camcorder for 
continuous sound, I found it excruciatingly difficult to insert cutaway 
shots from the other camcorder in synch with the music.

I saw a demo of FCP where there seemed to be more than one way to do 
this, e.g. via time code, via slip-edit (IIRC), and maybe a couple of 
others.

Mark