Merging multiple camera shots in music video

Help/How To
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Hi all,
I’m new to the forum and just downloaded Shotcut. So far so impressive, and the forum looks friendly and patient with newbies…fingers crossed!
I’m making a music video, and I’ve tried to do this intuitively rather than bother the forum but its apparent I need some guidance. I have 6 camera angles and therefore 6 seperate videos ,for e.g. vocal performance, drums, bass etc, all synching to the song. I want to switch from say the vocalist to the drummer and so on. I have opened 6 tracks, and then I split the clips where I wanted them and dgagged down into the main track. Its tricky as it all needs to sync with the song.
Two questions;

  1. How do I transition from say “drums” to “vocalist” shots? I looked this up in FAQ’s and it seems you drag a split clip a little bit and the software introduces a transition by default. But that doesnt seem to happen, and of course it immediately puts the clip out of sync with the underlying audio song.
  2. Is there a video tutorial out there for this? I’d prefer to do my homework instead of pestering users with their answers. I looked but so far nothing specific to making a music video. I did see one showing how to do a fishing video but not how to transition from one clip into another smoothly.

Cheers in advance

Rich

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One way (assuming an overlap after 1 minute:

Put the audio on a separate track and don’t manipulate it.
Put the drums on track V1.
Put the vocalist on track V2.
Split the drums and the vocals at 2 minutes.
Split the vocals at the point you next want to show them.
Lift (delete without removing the empty space) the unwanted vocals part.
Put a “Fade out” filter on the vocals clip.
Put a “Fade in” filter on the drums clip.

(you may want to experiment, e.g. split the drums say 2 seconds before the vocals.)

You may also have to move parts of clips above others depending on how you want to do the fades.

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Thanks, noted. How do I put a fade Out/In filter on the clip? I assumed right click at the junction but nothing comes up as a choice?

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You need to click on the clip, then click on the “Filters” tab/button, then scroll down the list of Video filters and select “Fade-in”/“Fade-out”.

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OK thanks will do.

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