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layers visible and invisible
I began on premier, then for a few years I’ve used final cut. I now have a job to do on premier which requires the ability to turn off and on (make visible and invisible at differnt moments) various layers. I expect to run at least 4 video layers at any one time – These layers will simply be alternative camera angles of the same events.
In final cut a few marks back if tyou did this FC said you will lose data by making these invisible. Then after a few updates this became easily achievable and you could turn layers on and off at will without damage..
My question is – does the latest edition of Premier allow you to make visible and invisible different layers without threatening to strike and lose data?
Thanks in advance – Terry Flaxton
A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !
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You can turn off an entire video or audio track by clicking the eyeball or speaker icon at the left end of the track or you can disable an individual clip by right clicking on it and choosing Enable.
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[Terry Flaxton] ” does the latest edition of Premier allow you to make visible and invisible different layers without threatening to strike and lose data?”
Yes. You will not lose any preview renders by toggling track visibility as you experienced with FCP.
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Another method of working with multiple angles is to create a multiple angle time line.
1. Create a new time line and let’s name it ‘Source Cams’
2. Drop each video on a track (track 1 = video 1, track 2 – video 2, etc., etc.) making sure you sync them to one another.
3. Now create a new time line, name it ‘MultiCam’
4. From the projects window drag and drop the ‘Source Cams’ time line onto this new one you just created.
5. High light the clip in the time line then on the menu go to Clip -> Multi-Camera -> Enable
6. Now on your Program Monitor, click on the little arrow in its upper right hand corner to bring up the menu, and pick ‘Multi-Camera Monitor’.
This should now bring up a new monitor that’s split in half with the left half containing all four of your video feeds, and the right being what you’re currently looking at.
From here you can hit the record button and play and using your mouse you can simply click on each camera angle that you want to view at that given moment in the time line. When you’re done and exit the monitor, you’ll notice your time line has all of the cuts you made when you were switching cameras, all set for you ready to go. Fine editing can be done here if you really want to, just go to the cut in the time line and click on the Trim button (on the monitor window) and it takes you the edit where you can drag the cut left or right, depending on where you wanted to make it originally.
It takes a bit of practice, but it sure beats working with all four feeds on one time line, trying to cycle through them one by one by turning them on and off.
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