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AB Roll Editing
I am new to Premiere. The project I picked to get started was a recording of a school play. I have three feeds of video for the performance. I layed the three videos out as seperate tracks in a sequence. I carefully time synched the footage so that the same event occurs at the same time accross all three tracks. I then selected on tracks audio as the master and mutted the other tracks.
At this point only one video track displays because the others are hidden behind it. So I need to figure out what feed I want at various points and delete away the unwanted footage from the other two tracks. Are their any tricks to doing this?
I am especialy interested in how I can get 3 (or even just 2) preview monitors to show a respective track as the footage plays.
I beleive this is called AB roll editing. I cant find any such refence in the manual, online help, or by searching the web forum. Any pointers to good search parameters would be most welcome.
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
https://www.fll-freak.com -
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The trick I use is this. I take the top track and figure out which shots are the very best, and I set the opacity to zero for everything else. I then do the same for the second track. Then the third.
Then when I play the sequence, All I have to do is worry about any overlap or any blank spots.
You can poke out the eyeball to make any track not visible so you can work on the track below it.
Another way to handle this is to set each track to 50% of it’s original scale and adjust them so they all fit on the screen. That way you can see what you are doing easier. But this tales a PC with some power.
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I follow a similar technique, except I scale my clips down to 25%. I really wish Adobe releases an affordable multi-cam plugin, similar to Vegas or incorporates a multi-cam function like Avid.
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Scaling to 50% makes it take up 25% of the screen. I think we are using different words for the same task.
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Probably. LOL 🙂
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[Steven L. Gotz] “The trick I use is this. I take the top track and figure out which shots are the very best, and I set the opacity to zero for everything else. I then do the same for the second track. Then the third.”
So if I understand you correctly, you make cuts, but don’t delete the clip, just set its opacity to 0%?
I have been locking all the other tracks, then cutting the bad spots out of the top track, then lock it down and cut the second track, leaving the “master” track intact. Only problem I have had once or twice is some clip slippage, causing me to loose one or two frames of Sync, and the time to straighten it all back out again.
The reason I lock everything is that I have a shuttle-pro, with one key set to “Razor All”, really speeds things up in the rough edit.Ken
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Actually, the easy way, for me, is to cut and then change the opacity to zero so clips don’t slide around.
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I see that now, and will try it on the next multi-cam I do. Sure wish I had heard/thought about this sooner!
Thanks Steve
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Aanarav… as I have known, Adobe released a 2 & 4 cam multicam software…
don’t know too much about this but I thought I read something about this somewhere.Hector
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Adobe has NOT released a plugin for multi-camea editing, however United Media has and it is not cheap: https://www.unitedmediainc.com/news/
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Thanks to all that replied to this thread. The opacity trick was just what I needed. I simply added out a bunch of opacity ‘hold’ keyframes on the top video. I then just moved them around to cut out the bad sections in that footage. First level editing of a one hour show was done in one evening.
I did not try the 50% reduction trick. I may still, but so far the edit points have been fairly obvious.
Thanks to all.
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
https://www.fll-freak.com
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