Need some Premiere help - PLEASE

[pmcarro]

I'm working with Premiere 6.5
I shot a music video
I have two tapes of identical footage with different views of course. Once I sync them up( I have one in track 3 and one in track 2) I want to be able to scroll and see both simultaneously. I know how to get two windows but one of them is blank. I'm sure there's a way to do this. It would make it so much easier to make cuts between the two. HELP!!
Also i've noticed that the footage(judging from the sound track) from one tape runs longer than the other. It starts out in sync but buy the end of the song it's out of sync. About 2 to three frame over the course of say 7 minutes. I know there's a tool to shorten the lenth of a video or audio but when I apply it , it screws up the sound sync completely! I just want to shorten but keep all the information of one of the tracks. HELP!
Thanks
Mike Carro

[dcsos]

I know how to get two windows but one of them is blank

You're referring to the MONITOR and SOURCE windows CORRECT?
One is dedicated to playing material out of the project window befor they are added to the timeline..the other is a view of the TIMELINES contents...
No you cannot play two clips in sync at the same time..
Instead do this:
shrink down the size of each clip to half the screen size, positon them side by side and either render a preview or a low quality (offline version)
of your clip..the resulting EXPORTED FILE will have both sources at the same time side by side in one frame

Then jot down the time at which you want to make cuts or dissolves back and forth...

for removing AUDIO & VIDEO past the point wher one camera drops out...use the RAZOR TOOL
Look at the tools in premiere, instead of the POINTER tool choose the razor blade..
Then take the razor blade and apply it directly to the frame on the timeline you want to split both audio and video at..
Then right click the part to be removed, as it will now be a seperate entity
on the right click menu ...choose either clear (removers only the clip) or RIPPLE DELETE which pulls up..all clips afterward will now come to the edit point
hope this helps