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Multicam will not kick in
I set up a multicam project today. I I have used MC a few times now but for some reason it has decided to give me issues today. Now I will say that this is the first time on this machine that I am using the MC. I don’t see that it should matter, but thought that I would mention it. I have set it up 2 ways this morning. One as per the Adobe Help files. All clips synched in sequence A. Nest Seq A in sequence B, select the sequence and enable multicam from within the clip menu. I open the MC preview and all I get is black, no cameras. I have no preview except for the preview monitor.
I also followed the advice on the Cow tutorial for MC which recomends placing each clip in a sequence then stacking those sequences into another sequence, then placing the multicliped sequence into a final sequence. I get the same results.
When I set it up and try to play it does the render as it should, but even once that is done there is no video in the MC monitor.
Computer is a dual 3.2 GHz Xeon, 5 Gig Ram, BlackMagic Decklink Extreme, Win XP Pro, Production Studio Premium.
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I have yet another tut on my web; http://www.video2stream.com
Either you are missing a step or the Deck Link does not support the feature, which would not be unusual for third party hardware. -
Mike Velte that was an awesome video stream demo of multicam function. it told me everything I need to know. thanks. Love your website. Once again thanks
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Mike I did everyhting that you did in your tutorial. I even scrapped the original project thinking that perhaps there was a corruption issue. The only corruption was in Washington, Premiere on the other hand acted the same both times. The only difference between your clip and my experience is that when you clicked to open the milticam monitor, your images were immediatly there, mine is black. Last night I had to just bite the bullet and do it the old fashoned way…whaaaaaa! But I do need to get this sorted out. There were 2 clips. Both AVI. One is a render from After Effects the source was a render from Camtasia. The other clip was a camera recorded onto Beta, digged in through the black magic card. I will call BlackMagic and ask about any know issues with the card and multicam. It scares me to be using a card with the initials BM. But so far the card has been great.
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Your problem might be with the source files…try any 2 DV clips.
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I know that AJA`cards also have some issues with PPro multicam…
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We dig from beta about 99% of the time, so the dv thing would not necessarily be a good test would it?-
But, using the idea that perhaps it was an issue with the clips, I just took several source clips from projects that have been completed (clips that worked). I had the same issue. I also tried clips that were not injested through the Decklink card just in case it was a DL thing. In all cases I get the same results. While writing this I am sitting on hold waiting for Adobe to talk to me. Current wait time 2+ hours. Un #$%#%^ believable. I wanna go and get some lunch. Oh well.Not sure if I said this before because I can not see my posts here, but I can run it and click where the video frames would be in the multicam and it does make the cuts. So the MC does work, just not with video support.
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BTW, I called BlackMagic this morning and asked if there were any known issues with the card and PPro2 and the tech had not heard of any.
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Worked with Adobe this morning and we started a new non Decklink. So you were right, AJA – Decklink – So I am calling BlackMagic to say WASSUP!
So, The Multicam worked. The problem now is that it will not play steady. I can start it and it will play for about 2 seconds then the video freezes but audio continues. If I click from window to window it will not change it just stays selected on that window. When I stop, the timeline updated with every cut I made even though I did not see it. Also, when I tried this with “Audio Folows Video” The audio does play and moves to the selected track even though the video does not. Any thoughts?
I thought that perhaps the network was not keeping up with this so I brought 4 clips local and retried with the same results.
This is a dual 3Ghz with 5 gig of Ram. This should handel this.
Never put off until tomorrow
that which can be done
the following day.
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