Best way to edit 8 sources multicam

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi Vasik,

If you have a good log, and clap or beep at the beginning, you could certainly lay it down on 8 tracks, sync it and start cutting that way.

I’ve done it, it works just fine.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vasik Greif]

Hi, thanks, but when I put all the 8 tracks on top of each other, I always see the top track only, so I don’t know how to choose the best shot angle. Are there any shortucts to switch between the shots? Or any other tips? Thanks

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[Vince Becquiot]

You would only turn on one track at the time (eye icon), then cut as you go. Unfortunately, Premiere doesn’t support solo tracks like After Effects does, which would be much easier. Make sure you name all your tracks, that will make things much easier.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Vasik Greif]

Ups, I hoped there’ll be more convenient way to do the edits…

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[Vince Becquiot]

You could look at the multicam feature, but I’m not sure how you would handle 8 cameras.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Greg Brand]

Hi Vasik.

im guessing you didn’t have 8 camera’s on set so you moved your cams between static and roaming shots of each band member through a number of takes?
if so, what i have done in the past for this kind of situation is pair certain shots together i.e all the drummer shots, lead, vox etc and edit these in a multicam situation.

I normally leave the roaming cams for last.

by nesting the comps in this way you are able to cut the sequence numbers down to 4.
even if you need to change something later you can always double click the piece of the nested sequence and follow it through to the original clips where you can trim, push and pull if needed.

hope that makes sense and helps a bit

cheers

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[Bart Conover]

Hope this helps . . . here’s what I did in the past:
Requires that you own Sony Vegas as well.

Sync all the cameras in Premiere Pro, export project as AAF and open in Vegas. All your cameras show up there . . . select all of them and create a multicam track and them cut your project. Worked great with 6 camera for me.

You then “save as” your Vegas project as AAF and open back in Premiere . . . hope that helps.

[Brian Louis]

Try Edius v6 it capable of 16cams in multicam, you can download a trial version at:
https://www.grassvalley.com/login?r=/support/downloads/demos

[Vasik Greif]

Thank you all for tips, I will give them a try and see what’ll work best for me…

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