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Multicam and trimming
This is my first go at multicam editing in premiere (previously used FCP 7)
I’m editing a 2 camera volleyball game. I set my in-points a little bit into the game (when the girl hits the ball, a great sync point) and make a multi-clip out of it.
In FCP I could then just grab the head of that clip and trim it back to whenever I wanted (usually the beginning of the announcer talking).
It looks like that’s impossible in Premiere? I can’t trim any farther back in time once I make the clip?Dell T76000 Dual 8-core 2.4 GHz
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Your terminology is a little loose….
But I’ll assume are referring to the Multicam clip on the edit timeline?
The only media frames that will be available in that clip are based on the extents of what’s exposed in the source timeline….
So if you trim the source timeline from it’s sync point out to expose all source frames…
then those will be available when making edit decisions in the destination timeline…
does that help?
🙂
Alex Udell
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Sorry, yes I did mean from the timeline.
In FCP I could trim that clip on the timeline to an earlier point in time.
But there is no source timeline when I click on the multiclip. It just pops up in the source monitor as the multiclip segment. It’s not nested or anything.
I guess I could set my in points and just back up the equal amount of time in each clip, then make the multiclip.
Kind of a pain, especially since I’ve already created and edited the clips, so it’s not a solution this time around.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you. Which is entirely possible.Dell T76000 Dual 8-core 2.4 GHz
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it is nested…right click it….
if you can edit the source sequence then the frames will be available for trimming in the edit seq.
The problem you then might encounter is that if you want to trim at the head of your sequence, it means that you’ll need to slide all your tracks later to make room for the additional frames.
so your content of each individual edit in your destination timeline will be off by the same corresponding number of frames.
in other words the pace of the edit decision won’t change, but the content will….you have to think of each edit on the multiclip as a window into source sequence.
so in this case if it’s only a matter of a simple change at the head…
you are better off matching and rippling for the original source media for the first edit, rather than trimming the source seq.
does that help?
Alex
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Alex:
I found what you were talking about. I right click and select “open in timeline” At this point i’ll make it work instead of shifting the times, etc.
But this will definitely help in the future.
Thanks!
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