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Multi-Cam Interview Editing Workflow Suggestions (Prelude -> Premiere CC -> Plural Eyes 3)
Hello all, I am new to multi-cam editing and I was hoping for some workflow suggestions. I shot an interview with 2 cameras and an external audio recording. I started with Plural Eyes 3, synced everything and exported an XML for use in Premiere CC. Then I started adding markers and comments to the sections that I wanted to use bites from. Premiere crashed during this process, which gave me some time to think, is this the best workflow solution?
I looked into it and it appears a lot of people are using Adobe Prelude for adding markers/comments and I was curious if people are doing this with multi-cam projects somehow?
If I had to guess, the workflow might be something like this:
– Ingest to Adobe Prelude
– Add comment markers to the bites I want to use
– Add a description to the comment markers for ease of editing in Premiere
– Add all the bites to a rough cut in Prelude
– Export Rough Cut to Premiere
– Add the “Camera 2” clips to the timeline on a video track above the “Camera 1” clips in the “Rough Cut”
– Add external audio file to audio track in the “Rough Cut”
– Send timeline to Plural Eyes 3 for syncing
– Replace camera scratch audio with synced external audio
– Make multi cam editDoes that sound right? Since I am working with over an hour of interview footage, I am concerned that I will keep starting the project, only to find a new better workflow and then start over again.
Any advice is much appreciated!
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Is there in camera audio on the clips?
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You don’t need PluralEyes with Premiere Pro CC, especially if you have audio on all sources, even just camera audio. CC will sync everything up.
That’s the main reason we use a real slate on every shoot now with multicam. That super loud CLAP makes for super easy sync operation in PPro no matter how many cameras and angles.
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Yeah. Here’s my workflow-select a Cam1 clip, select a Cam2 clip, select the Audio clip right click and choose Make Multicam clip. Synchronize by audio, rename, choose audio behavior. Right click on this new clip and choose Make New Sequence. Open up the Multicam interface and start cutting. Any troubles with audio can be addressed by right clicking on the Multicam clip and choosing Open In Timeline. There you can patch tracks, mute, duplicate tracks, whatever. I even do this to drop quick Lumetri looks on the clips so I can get a grade on the Multicam output while I’m editing.
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Thanks for that info with syncing with PP CC instead of Plural Eyes, I was just so use to doing that first in my other edits. What about the other workflow? Do you marker comments for an interview? If so, with Prelude or Premiere?
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I mark everything in Prelude. And subclips sync just as easy as complete clips. Very easy to stay organized.
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That’s great, thanks!
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Paul,
-I started with Prelude, created subclips of my interview (using Camera A’s footage)
-Sent my subclips to Premiere
-Imported Camera B’s clips
-Imported my Interview Audio
-Selected my subclips, my camera b clips and my audio, right clicked and choose Create Multi Cam SequenceIt processed and created 3 multi cam sequences, all of which didn’t contain any footage. Any idea what I did wrong? I was using (2) 5DMK II’s, and a Zoom H4N audio recorder. I know they can be synced, as I had originally synced then with Plural Eyes 3.
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Highlight one of the newly created clips (MC Sequence) right click and select New Sequence From Clip.
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That helped, plus I looked back at your previous comment regarding how to get into the multicam sequence to adjust things which helped. It was creating 8 cameras from my 2 camera setup, so I was able to move my clips down to the appropriate track. It worked great, thanks again!
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