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4K footage appearing zoomed-in in the Multi Camera View when the timeline is HD
When editing a multicamera file with 4k footage and the HD sequence, the preview of the cameras looks zoomed-in (see attached screenshot, wherein in the multi-camera view only the mic appears visible but in the actual video that is what’s in my timeline you can see the singer). When cutting to the desired camera, the view on the Program goes back to the actual desired size (50% scale) but I can only see that when I pause the playback (the clips remain zoomed in the Multi Camera View). This makes editing multicamera really tough and time-consuming because I have to pause every time I do a cut, and I’m also missing 50% of the preview in the Multi Camera View, making it hard to judge if a shot is good or not.
The only solution I found so far is to create an HD multi-camera, Set to Frame Size in the multi-camera file (zooms out 50%), and then create an HD sequence, import the multi-camera, finish the edit, and then flatten the multi-camera file in the sequence so that now I’m able to zoom-in in the videos that require reframing (or stabilization).
Does anyone know a solution for this?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi,
Yes unfortunately this is one of the bugs. What is your version of Premiere Pro maybe it is solved with the latest version, I will try it as soon as I can with the latest version and tell you here. This was also a similar case with Final Cut Pro before and now they have managed to fix it, I hope Premiere can fix it, too.
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My best practice with mixed ( HD + 4K ) multicam sources for use in final HD timeline:
Create HD multicams and then manually re-set the 4K clips to 50% in the multicam sources. This does not take long, even with dozens of multicams. Do not use auto resizing in the multicams. This way everything will appear full frame, both in the source and timeline viewer, when editing to HD timelines.
When scaling up the 4k clips, leave it as a mulicam source, even if it appears a little soft, then flatten the scaled clips to 4K when you are ready to finalize your timeline.
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Hey! Yes, it sounds like a bug. I have the latest 2024 version. I just updated it to 2025, hopefully, that solves the issue.
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What do you mean by auto-resize? I usually use the “set to frame” option, which just scales the shots to 50%. Flattening the frames at the ending is a good idea but the risk is if you need to do any modifications at the ending will take more effort/time to go back to the previous sequence to fix. I’m not a big fan of flattening unless you have no other option.
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I don’t have your issue and I’m just giving you my best practices, based on cutting nothing BuT multicam on Ppro for the past 10 years.
I’m guessing that setting the “default media scaling = set to frame” option is causing your scaling issues. Thats why in general preferences, I set “default media scaling = none” and then manually scale the 4K’s to 50% in the multiclips.
As for making changes after flattening, I agree it’s a PITA, which is why I leave it for the last possible moment. After that, if I do have to make the occasional change, it’s not that hard to recall the original multiclip based on timecode or whatever.
Good luck.
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Yes, thanks for sharing your best practices. I saw someone else saying to deactivate the default “set to frame size” but didn’t say this to be the reason for that. I will try deactivating that option. Thanks again for your advise!
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