Multicam edit &synchronizing

[Jon Barrie]

You can sync up the clips for sure. You need to dedicate a layer to each camera in a multi-layered sequence so each track is running each camera. Sync the clips with a marker for example. You can do that by double clicking the clips into the source monitor and making a numbered marker (0). Do that for each clip that you know has something in it you can sync the others to. Maybe a sound, or camera flash? Then Select all the clips in each layer right click to synchronise. Ask it to sync by marker number 0. They will all snap in alignment. For the other footage at the end or middle use another numbered marker (1) then sync the same way with the clips that match that section. Or do it with an unnumbered marker (*) and snap them together manually. (drag them to snap marker to marker).
Make a new seq. Drop the ‘setup’ sequence into the new one. Right click it and select multicamera>enable. Goto Window>Multicamera Monitor and edit away.
– Jon Barrie

[Videostream]

are you talking about using TIMECODE to sync the cameras?

if so beware, because Premiere does not record the correct timecode from multicam (time-of-day) tapes.

After the first timecode break, Premiere will blindly continue recording , writing the WRONG timecode on all the clips, meaning you can not sync them using the timecode.

You have to either sync the clips by eye, or use a NLE which records the CORRECT timecode from the tape, like Lightworks, or IFX Piranha, or FCP, or Vegas. In fact , almost any system apart from Premiere.

videostream

[Jon Barrie]

I’m not talking about TC. I’m talking about marking your sync points with a numbered marker. Like a clapper or something to that effect. I work with FCP and if the TC breaks you’re just as stuffed as any other NLE when it comes to recapturing. Different programs have different solutions.
I’m offering you a solution to your current app situation. If you’re wishing it was FCP or Avid that’s your wasted energy. PPro is just as powerful if the operator knows it well enough.
– Jon

[Martin Mundy]

Thanks for your help, it worked perfectly.

[Ross Bradshaw]

Dont want to step on your toes here Jon but after reading Martin’s problem I remebered something else that will ease his pain. I always find that if you put your main camera (nearly always wide and with the audio feed from the desk) on track one and turn off the “follow audio” check box then when you have finished the edit your audio is far easier to edit because it still all the same track.
Anyway hop the edit goes well.
Take it easy man

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