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Multicam and trimming — I’m missing something
I have finally succeeded in syncrhonizing about 6 hours of video collected from four cameras this past Monday. I’m using Premiere for the first time because FCPX 10.0.6 has simply been too unstable on my computer to do any work at all. (That’s a topic for another forum.) So Premiere is new to me.
First the good news: Premiere has yet to crash once.
Now the bad news: the cameras were all free-running timecodes that were not synced at the start, and some of which rolled over from 23:59 to 00:00. Yuck. But the camera operator did clap in and out every time we had to change media (240GB SSDs for Black Magic shuttles and 64GB P2 media for an HPX170), so it was really not that difficult to line up the clips in the timeline and get them to sync.
What was difficult was this: after carefully arranging the clips in the timeline, I could not figure out how to make a multicam clip FROM THE TIMELINE. That is to say, when I selected the clips I wanted to use, both Syncrhonize and Make Multi Camera Source Clip were always grayed out.
After some searching, I discovered that there was another way to get the clips I wanted into a multicam clip: select them directly from Project browser. The problem with this is that the source media clips have no concept of the in points that I set via the timeline, which meant quite a tedious process of translating and transferring timeline-appropriate in points to the original clips themselves via the source browser. I have not taken so many notes with paper and pencil since debugging m68020 assembly code with a bios-level debugger.
I think I am missing two really basic concepts: first, how to make timeline clips suitable for components in Multi Camera clips, and second, how to easily translate clip properties in the timeline to clip properties in the source window.
Any thoughts on either of these?
Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
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You are missing the need to NEST the clips first. How I work usually is to select just the video portion of the clips, and then choose nest from the clip menu (this way my original audio stays put and I can mix it more easily).
Once you have a nested clip, then you can select the multicam enable choice. Of course, then you need to open the multicam editor. I like to dock my multicam editor with the preview monitor instead of keeping it free floating.
Hope this gets you going.
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OK, so I did that, and yes it works, but now I’ve got a new problem, which is that I need to start doing gamma correction, and as far as I can tell, this puts me in the ugly position of having to swap back and forth between the timeline-expanded view of the nest sequence (which gives me access to the Effects Controls on the individual clips), but it completely loses track of the multicam viewer that I’d like to be looking at.
How do I get my four-camera view that I can then use for touching up the color of each window so that they match?
Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
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If you go to Window>Reference Monitor or Window>Workspace>Color Correction you will get extra windows to monitor the different clips.
Tip: What I usually do is go to the main timeline where you synced your cameras and do the color work one track at the time. Lets say you set your color for camera #1, and then get the rest to look like that one.
After you do this you can change specific clips in your final edited timeline and using adjustments layers could be useful for that.
If you have any other question let me know. I would like to help.
Axel Arzola
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Axel, thanks for your offer of help! I’ve left the studio for the day so cannot check the solution you provided, but if I can have a color correction window open and the multi-cam viewer, and changes I made in the color correction (or gamma correction) window is reflected in the multicam viewer at the same time, I’m a happy camper.
(And if I have to context switch between gamma correction and the multicam viewer every time I want to see the effect of a single unit change, not so happy…)
Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
https://manifoldrecording.com/
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