MultiCamera software help...

[FlyingsCool]

Total newbie to video editing here.

I have two video files from 2 angles of the same subject and an audio file. Each has a different start point.

I'm very used to audio editing in a DAW. I'd like to do the same with the video.
Show the three tracks.
Align the three tracks globally to each other using the audio of each track. Then "split" the video into clips to switch back and forth from one camera to another; without the clips moving position relative to the original tracks. I'm assuming there might be transitions between changes from one camera to another; sometimes a hard change, sometimes a fade, stuff like that.

I don't do it much and it's only a hobby, so I was hoping to find some free software to do it with. Graphical please.

I tried Shotcut for a couple of days. It's really close, but I can't quite figure it out. I don't see a global timeline, I can create tracks, but apparently it doesn't use them. But I can't figure out what it does use. I'm really struggling creating clips in it, and when I put clips on a timeline, I can't figure out how to align them to the global timeline, they just plop where I put them. And then I can't figure out how to make it remember that I changed the length of a clip.

Can Shotcut do this? Or am I going to spend hours realigning clips as I make them from the original video files and add them to the Timeline?

Is there another similar software that is easier to use for my purposes and I don't have to pay for access to the user forum? (I probably will pay for forum access, it's only $5 and it seems like it should work and it should be easy and maybe I just need to understand the terminology better, but I'm reluctant because I'm afraid that Shotcut won't cut it).

I'm not so concerned with the audio portion as I use Mixcraft for audio editing, and it does allow a single video track, so I can fix up the audio later if necessary.

Ultimately, I just want to be able to easily switch from one camera to another and back again, and then output the video, without having to worry about aligning them to the global timeline all the time. It would be even more awesome if it could combine video of different resolution, but I don't necessarily need that.

(And, yes, I did multiple searches on this subject in the fora of this forum and didn't really find an answer that helped me with this question)

[smrpix]

Programs with true multicam editing like Premiere Pro and Vegas Pro have free trials that might suffice for the time it will take you to do this project. Be sure sto spend a few hours learning to set them up properly.

The "fake" multicam you're suggesting can be done under trial in Sony Movie Studio.

You can also try VSDC or AviUtl -- the first crashes a lot, the second has unusual ways of handling things.

[ackboo]

I know that Davinci Resolve can do multicam. Not necessarily easy but there are youtube tutorials and a thousand pages user manual. And it's free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0hz5Upk7o