Advanced Camera Plotting with Layer Router | Resolume Tricks!

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Hi, I am zunayed sabbir ahmed, on behalf of We are VJ bangladesh, a small rising community of live visual artists ang light designers, based in Bangladesh.

In this medium long sized video, we will create a few advanced camera routings, where you can plan your camera feeds ahead and get best use of your creative studio time and nail live gigs! We will deal with camera’s in this video, but trust me you can do trizzillion things with it, trust me!

We will continue the project we made in our previous video, and build on to that

If you haven’t seen that great trick yet, check it out here

Lets dive in!

 

To Start, lets drag the Set layer to bottom, so that adding more layer above wont get it messed up in advanced output

Lets press CTRL+Shift+A for advanced output, and let’s re-route the set slice to set again.

 

Lets say, for this example we will use two camera feeds

You can get quad or dual hdmi/sdi cards to do that

You can also use multiple camlinks to get this done

And ofcourse NDI is there!

So lets add two layers, above or under, doesn’t matter, we will put them to blackout soon

Lets add a group and drag them inside

Lets Rename the group to CAM ALL, and Layers to CAM 1 and CAM 2

lets add two sample shots, the fames you want to go for, or you will get in the venue

we are gonna hire the glamor of david guetta and thank him for being a great demo for this tutorial

Later, when we are at venue, we will add cameras from sources to these layers

Lets Put Mid shot to Cam 1

Lets put Closeup shot to Cam 2

Lets put them to persistent mode so that they stay reacble in any deck inside this composition

Lets put persistent, fire and lock our set layer as well, so that it wont blackout when put to master black out

Lets fire both clips

Lets blackout the group so that it doesn’t hurt our composition, lets lock this group as well

Lets add another layer, coz i myself feel suffocating if i have to work with less than 3 layers, phew

Lets rename the layers, it will save our time, later, like grand pa’ said

We’re almost ready to roll!

lets drop a layer router, from sources

lets change input to Cam 1

Lets deselect input opacity and bypass

Thats Cam 01

Lets copy and paste the same source beside it

Lets Change input to CAM 2

lets rename them

lets change thumbnails for them, its not essential, but sorry for having designer’s ocd

Speaking of designer’s OCD, let ne show you how much i can push this situation

Here i grabbed a youtube video, and cut two shots of our favorite ******,

We cut them, export as DXV

Lets drop them to layers accordingly, put persistent

Again, you can just add camera via capture device in sources anytime you are ready to work with cameras

Or you can work with a very basic webcam, take cair of your hairstyle while u work

See! now it feels like we can START!