Cut away’s – how to use parts of 7 hour long 2nd cam roll as cutaways in other sequences

[Jeff Pulera]

Not sure I understand the question correctly, but here goes. The way I edit with 2 cameras is to put the MAIN camera on track V2, and the “cutaway” camera beneath it on V1 (sync the clips up of course, looking at audio waveform or visual cues).

I can then play or scrub through the “main” camera footage, and when I am moving or otherwise find the current view unacceptable, I use the Razor tool and cut out that part of the V2 clip, which “reveals” the cutaway camera then. It is always there whenever I need it. Note that you should right-click the clip and choose “Unlink” before you start cutting, so the audio is not cut out with the video.

Another method is to use the MultiCam option in Premiere, which allows you to view both cameras at once during playback and you can switch between the cameras on the fly, with Premiere recording your edits, like using a “live switcher”, though you can still adjust the edits after the fact as well. There are plenty of tutorials/instructions available for MultiCam so I won’t go into that.

Hope this is what you are looking for

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Danie Pretorius]

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the comprehensive answer!

My problem is not the sync of the 2 cams but to use clips (cutaways) from cam 2 at ANY other time to ‘cover’ mistakes or to make a logical cutaway for the viewer where presenter refers to book or script and a member of the audience on another day/another shoot, looked at his/her notes.

I want a ‘bin’ full of all cutaways as indiv clips made during the entire duration of the footage and just drag one of these clips to the timeline to cut away to.

My solution I think I found in the tutorial on this wonderful same website here https://library.creativecow.net/devis_andrew/Subclips/1
using subclips. This seems to be exactly what I was looking for! I’ll try that!

Thanks for your input again Jeff! Apologies if my problem was not stated very clearly!

Best regards from South Africa!

Sony EX3, Canon XL1, Adobe Production Suite CS5, Pretoria, South Africa

[Jeff Pulera]

I understand now, Andrew has a lot of very helpful tutorials, glad you got your answer

Happy New Year

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Danie Pretorius]

Thanks again Jeff! Have an excellent 2011 too!!

Sony EX3, Canon XL1, Adobe Production Suite CS5, Pretoria, South Africa

[Danie Pretorius]

Just a summary on how I used subclips to resolve my problem:

• I imported all footage into a project (all 16 hours of it!)
• I dragged the unedited footage onto timeline
• I cut out the normal interview/present parts (ripple delete is a real timesaver here!). So I was left with a timeline full of little bits of cutaway scenes.
• I opened every scene (double clicking on the scene in the timeline). Righclicked on the monitor–> Create Subclip–> Rename —> Done
• I then deleted all the original assets (full length fooage) from the project and saved it.
• When I need the cutaway scenes in another project, I import the full ‘cutaway’ project into current project and I have all the subclips neatly at my disposal to use to enhance the flow of my main edit!

Thanks again to this wonderful forum! Without this forum, I would not have been able to resolve it! Thanks!

Happy New Year (2011!!)

Regards
Danie

Sony EX3, Canon XL1, Adobe Production Suite CS5, Pretoria, South Africa

[David Dobson]

Sub Clips are the way to go.

If you have to go from a sequence, then select the clip you want, copy it and then paste it into the master sequence.
You can also cut a sequence into another sequence.

[Danie Pretorius]

Great! Thanks David!

Sony EX3, Canon XL1, Adobe Production Suite CS5, Pretoria, South Africa