Multicam – See shots from top video clip

[Paul Neumann]

Flatten your multicam and move it up?

[Andy Edwards]

Are you just stacking clips manually in a sequence and cutting vs. using the Multi-cam tool which will show you all your clips in a Monitor? In the picture example the monitor shows me all 8 cameras in the multi cam sequence.

Andy Edwards

[Dustin Parsons]

Sorry, should have explained myself more thoroughly. I have a multicam clip on track V1 and another multicam clip on track V2 and am working in Multicam View in the Program Monitor (the setup looks like Andy’s screenshot).

The multicam clips on track V2 or V3 are used for b-roll so I’m looking for a quick way (without flattening) to see the shots from the multicam clip on the top most video track – for example, if I have a multicam clip on track V1, V2 and V3 I don’t want to have to toggle my track targeting to V3 to be able to change it’s camera and if I delete the clip on V3 I want PPro to show me all the cameras for the clip on V2 without having to toggle it’s track targeting.

I doubt this can be done though…

[Andrew Kimery]

PPro needs to know which camera you want to monitor so the track targeting is a necessary evil. If you haven’t done so already, I’d make the ‘clear all video targets’ as well as V1 through V4 target selection to keyboard commands to at least easy the pain.

[Andy Edwards]

Ok, now we are on the same page and I have a better understanding of what you need. Couple ways to deal with the “BROLL” aspect of multi cam.

1) Do all your broll after you have completed your your multi cam cut. Then you are focused on just placing it above your multi cam layer.

2) Create a Broll sequence and “Pancake” your sequence above your multi cam. You can have 2, 3,4 whatever sequences open and you can bounce between them grabbing shots to paste in your main Multi cam sequence. You don’t have to worry about turning targeting on or off for V2, V3 over and over. Here is an example:

3) You could place your broll in your original Multi cam sequence before you nest it, but TC won’t match and you’ll be bouncing around trying to line it up every time you want to cut. This could be a headache for targeting like you are having right now. Just to prove it can be done, here is a picture, but I wouldn’t recommend doing it this way.

Hope this helps

Andy Edwards