On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:31:43 GMT, Gary Eickmeier wrote:
>Robin Davies-Rollinson wrote:

>> > Ruether, you are a maniac. Six cameras for a .... wedding? One area
>> > you didn't cover to my satisfaction is how did you decide where to cut
>> > from one camera to another? You can't watch six monitors and do a live
>> > mix.
>> >
>> > Gary Eickmeier

>> Well, Outside Broadcast directors do it every day ;-)
>> (only six cameras?)

>The idea is, he can't do it the same way the Outside Broadcast
>directors do it. In NLE, your program exists on these little timelines
>only. You can watch any one at a time, or the composite program, but
>except for a certain program called Multicam I don't think you can
>view the timelines all at once and make the kinds of decisions a
>director would normally make. It's a rather more clumsy process, and I
>am very curious how he does it.
> Gary Eickmeier

The point of NLE is *not* to make decisions "real time"...
Computer NLE's give you FAR more control (down to the
frame level!) over what appears in the final edit, making possible
a better product, though the process is definitely not RT
(and therefore offers advantages - you trade speed for
the much greater control gained by using computer editing
instead of live mixing...). As for "how I do it", read
the article (or the post elsewhere in this thread
summarizing the rather easy process, using a filmstrip
timeline-based Premiere interface...). The article is
at: www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/multi-camera.htm.