-
Multi-camera editing: Can Only Get 2×2 Setup But Need 3×3.
Please excuse the lack of detail but I am posting for a friend.
He is new to Premiere Pro and wants to edit video from 7 cameras.
However, he can only make a 2×2 setup and needs a 3×3 to fit 7 videos.
What does he need to do to configure it?
I will have to relay the info over the phone and I use FCP myself so the info will need to be specific.
-
8 Replies
-
4 cameras is max.
You might want to have a look at this:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/barrie_jon/Adv_MC_Workflow.php -
Thanks. I will pass the message and the link on.
-
Sorry! I think I may have been mistaken because there were a number of us using different numbers of cameras and computers at our video editing club last night.
I think he had 2 cameras on his computer but didn’t know how to get 4.
Is that explained in the tutorial?
If not, could you give me simple instructions to pass on to him please.
-
I don’t use the Premiere multi-cam editing feature because it does weird things with the audio.
I just add a motion effect to all sources so they appear in a grid. Then whenever I want to make a cut, I just razor all tracks with a keyboard shortcut.
Make sure you name your tracks based upon the camera angle (Tom, Bob, Sue vs Cam 1,2,3) for ease in editing later.
Then after you play through the program, making your cuts, you go back and manually trim each edit, and either delete the clips you don’t need, or make those tracks invisible. I move the selected shot to the uppermost track, and make all lower tracks invisible, thus retaining all unused shots, at least for the first edit. If there are shots of no value whatsoever these can be deleted.
The sequence is a mess at this point, but it is your first cut.
Make sure to save an unaltered sequence before starting your edit.
Playing 7 streams in real time will be next to impossible unless you are using the WOPR, so you will be in draft playback and still struggling most likely.
Hope this helps.
Mike Cohen
-
Thanks Mike, I will pass that info on.
Regarding your comment on the problem of playing 7 streams, I don’t know whether it is the same, but I use Final Cut Pro on a 2.8 GHz iMac and have no problems playing 9 clips in the multiclip mode.
-
What sort of drive array are you using? That makes a difference.
-
Here is a link to a post I wrote a bit back about how to deal with this in PPro:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/900327
Alex
-
Thanks Alex I will pass that on.
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up