Hi - any Vegas experts out there?

After buying Pro8 last week I am trying out the Multicam facility. Have followed the manual :

- Chosen Quantise to frames
- Chosen Ignore Event Grouping
- Loaded the two clips in the timeline.

Then I have the problem. It says to choose Multicamera from the tools menu and choose either Layout Tracks Using Media Timecode/Layout Tracks Using Date/Time Stamp from the Submenu..

But these are both greyed out.

Anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please?

Thanks

Colin

Make sure you highlight the tracks you want for the multi edit, click on the left where the fader is then hold the CTRL key and highlight the others then go to TOOLS> MULTICAMERA, make sure you ENABLE and CREATE in that list other wise you will not see the multi pips in the preview window.

Advice..... when you have lined up your edits save the project and then re-save with new name, you can then get back to the starting point as you cannot start again (undo will work so far)
Press the "T" (TAKE) button in the track when playing back so you can pick a new take if you have the wrong one.

Cheema's right. You have to select the tracks first. That little gotcha had me scratching my head for what seemed like hours, but it's obvious when you think about it ... or maybe not

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Tim

I highlighted the two tracks then went into TOOLS>Muliticamera.

But only "Enable Multicamera Editing" is available. The others are greyed out. Only the first track is in the preiview window.

Colin

OK, I have just got it. Cheema, when you said highlight tracks, I thought you meant the actual tracks in the Timeline. What you meant - so I just twigged through trying everything, is the LEFT HAND PANELS.

So, Cheema and Tim thanks for your help.

I am sure I will be back sometime!

This Forum is brilliant!

Colin

That's GREAT advice. Glad I checked this thread out even though I've been doing multicam for a while. Silly how the little things can mean so much, eh?