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Multicam sequences and takes
I’m working on a multicam project right now which has me a bit befuddled and thinking there “must be a better way.” I have a couple of hours of footage, a lot of improvised scenes with many takes and multiple cameras. My main questions right now are:
– How are takes best managed in a multicamera flow? (I’m pretty sure I don’t know a good way to handle takes in Premiere at all.) Right now I’ve got a multicamera sequence for each take, but with sometimes up to 10 takes in a section, I’m finding things are getting cluttered very quickly. I’m also combining some shots from different takes, which makes things even more messy, as I then have multiple audio tracks to manage. In this case it isn’t really a matter of choosing the “best” take as much as it is finding the angle/take that will seam well as a cover or replacement. As it stands I can’t seem to think of a way to improve the flow. If anyone has worked on a project like this and would care to share experience I’d sure appreciate it!
– I think I’m also a little confused on how to utilize the nest feature as well. As it is now, if I right click some selected video and audio clips in a sequence and choose “Nest,” it nests the video and audio and leaves an extra copy of the audio tracks in the sequence. Is this the correct behavior?
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Just to add more info to this, one big issue that is making things really frustrating is that multicam sequences don’t maintain linkage to audio when a camera change is made. I’m trying to rough cut the sequences, and that requires some edits in addition to angle changes. When I make an angle change, the sequence loses its link to the audio track. Conversely when I make a cut of any kind, the link stays intact. Maybe I just don’t understand how this multicam feature is supposed to work.
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OK so I think I’ve solved my audio linkage issue — I needed to specify the video and audio tracks in the multi-camera monitor; there are drop-downs which I’d incorrectly assumed had something to do with the tracks in the multi-camera sequence, when in fact these correspond to the tracks in the sequence where the multicam sequence is nested. So getting those correctly selected, that seems to fix the issue of cuts vs. angle changes, now both seem to work 🙂
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