Best multitrack editing software?

[photonianpa]

I know this has probably been asked before but I wasent able to find it so I'll ask here.

I currently have pinaccle studio 12 ultimate. If I can multi cam edit on here I dont know what the easy way is. I am mainly shooting weddings for another guy and he has someone else editing them. I want to go into this fully on my own but need a sloid editing background with NLE. I'm mostly from the oldschool way of doing things where I would have deck to deck editing; laying b-roll over top of my main cam.

Where I am going with this is that I want to do a 3 camera wedding with one as primary and 2 sync'd cameras to switch to for alternate shots. Ring shot, grooms reaction, kiss closeup, wideshot. If this would be easier I would invest in something other than pinaccle in a heartbeat. I am on the fence with picking up Adobe CS4 master suite. Will that do it? Is there any one of the softwares that would let me sync up 2-4 camera tracks and let me switch between them in post production instead of finding and having to sync each shot individually?

Any help appriciated,

Thanks

Joe

[guns1inger]

I do multi-cam work with Vegas Pro because I can have unlimited video and audio timelines on screen together and simply cut between them. I use an older version without true multi-cam support, but I don't find that to be an issue either.

[seifer almasy]

vegas pro is without doubt the best I have used in windows.

Easy to use, not a steep learning curve. Plenty of add ons/plugins. I used to use ulead which was slow and basic, and also premiere which was bug ridden and ridiculously complicated.

With 3 days of vegas I was using chroma keys and making a huge tribute, exporting to h.264 and all self taught. No tutorials. No help. No nothing.

THAT is the power of vegas

[dun4cheap]

For multi cam I would suggest Liquid 7. Hands down it naitively supports multi cam edits better than anything in its class. It actually has a sepecial syncing setup for up to 16 cameras. Once you sync it you simply play your footage in realtime and view all cams simultaneously and select which camera you want to move to. Once you do this drop it to your timeline and then you can go through and switch camera's again. I have not seen any other editor in its price range with these features. You can sync up via timecode, markin, I usually use a flash. I have utlizied 4 cameras at once myself on numerous occassions. In particular weddings and cheer events.

Good luck,