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Mixing multicam footage with non-multicam footage… what?
I’m editing an interview (non-multicam) with multicam b-roll.
If I put the interview on v1 with the multicam footage on v2 I can’t view both angles, I can just see the selected angle.
I then tried putting the b-roll on v1 and targeting v2 to cut in the interview. This is hardly ideal, but I was going to enable/disable the clips on v2 to cut between talking head and b-roll. That doesn’t work because as soon as v1 targeting is turned off, multicam view disappears.
Is there something I am missing? It seems like such a simple requirement but I can’t find people complaining about this online so maybe there’s an obvious fix that I just can’t see.
I’m on PPro CC 7.1 on a mac.
EDIT: In multicam view, I can’t see non-multicam footage in the same track either. Titles don’t appear. This seems like very poor implementation. I have an option to switch between multicam and composite view so it’s surely not an engineering problem – why can’t the software choose the appropriate view for different kinds of footage?
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OK, if I select “show multi-camera preview monitor.” I can see both angles and ALSO the interview footage at the same time. Nice.
Multicam in PPro seems a lot less flexible than in FCP7 though. It would be nice if multicam clips behaved like normal clips and you could see multicam angles on tracks other than v1. It’s as if it has been designed for a very limited number of use cases and workflows.
I can see everything fine now but I have to mess with track targeting every time I cut in some interview footage. Then I have to switch it back again so that everything displays properly.
It’s surprising that apple made an editor which is less dictatorial in terms of how things can and should be done. That doesn’t sound like apple at all – I suppose it’s cos they originally bought it from someone else. And obviously they’ve “fixed” that with FCPX.
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[andy lewis] “Multicam in PPro seems a lot less flexible than in FCP7 though. It would be nice if multicam clips behaved like normal clips and you could see multicam angles on tracks other than v1. It’s as if it has been designed for a very limited number of use cases and workflows. “
Agree completely. The poor implementation of multicam is the single thing that keeps me from committing to PPro. It’s really amazing that with all the examples of the right way to handle this feature (Avid, FCP 7, FCPX) Adobe figured out a way to make something not nearly as good.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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