I am very new to video editing and am looking for some pointers to help me along with Cinelerra. I've spent a few days with the consumer level versions of both Sony Vegas (Movie Studio) and Adobe Premiere (Elements), and based on my needs/Google searches, I don't think they have the feature set I need. As for Cinelerra, I’ve installed it, read the manual, visited some tutorials, and loaded up some files to play with the interface. That about sums up my experience.
Goal: To produce an hour long concert video using Cinelerra that was shot with 3 cameras and has an external audio source. Source files: The video was shot with 3 Canon HD cameras (2 x HF11, 1 x HF10). The source files are AVCHD, and I believe are 24fps at 1920x1080i. The camera seemed to split the files at around the 2GB mark, so there are multiple files from each camera. In total, the video from each camera is a different size, as they were all started/stopped at different times. The audio was recorded separately, and is at 16Bit/48kHz. Advice sought: 1. I plan to use one of the methods described at this site to deal with the AVCHD files: http://renomath.org/ejolson/video/avchd/. If there is another method I should research, I'll gladly take your advice. 2. The external audio "drifts" as time moves on when lined up with the video tracks. I haven't tried to line up all three video tracks, but I'm not dismissing the possibility that they will be out of sync too. What is the best way to deal with this in Cinelerra? 3. What is the best workflow for selecting material from each source cam in Cinelerra?. I imagine that there will be a lot of switching back and forth between camera sources over the course of an hour, and I'm not sure how to do this efficiently while keeping it all lined up with the external audio. Does Cinelerra provide functionality similar to the VASST third party multicam tools for Sony Vegas (I haven't used them, but the tutorials I've seen look interesting)? Thanks in advance to any pointers to tutorials, documentation, or right out answers... Best Regards, Michael
