Premiere Pro 2.0 and 8-cam editing

[Deleted User]

Hello,

As far as I am aware I do not know of any plugin for Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 which will support more then 4 cameras at this present time. WHat you could do would be to add new video tracks and label them;

CAM8
CAM7
CAM6
CAM5
CAM4
CAM3
CAM2
CAM1

Add the sync points on to the same start point on the timeline then manually cut them, sure it will take a bit longer but thats the only way I can see right now to do what you want with 8 cameras.

Good luck, I will also look around to see if there are any other options to enable more then 4, it would be a good feature request for Adobe to let you specify how many multicameras you want to use in a project.

Thanks,

Leo

[Deleted User]

Hello,

I have looked and not seen any software on the net which can do the 8 camera multicam edit.

Thanks,

Leo

[Rubento]

Thank you, Leo. Then will edit the traditional way.

Thanks

rubento

[Baz Leffler]

I recently did a 9 camera edit. It was done using leo’s technique and applying a PiP effect to each clip using ‘motion’ thus creating a 9 way split screen.

The computer I was using could play it in real time.

Then I played the timeline using ‘voiceover record’ to record my voice as direction to which camera to use and the asterisk key to provide the cut point; all on the run.

After that I went back and cut (^K) at the asterisks, deleted the unwanted portions and finally disabled the ‘motion’ to bring each portion up to full screen.

Then I went thru it all again and did sone fine adjusting.

An advantage with each camera on a different layer was that I could then colour match each camera and then apply that setting to the whole layer/layers. But only do this AFTER you have completed your edit as it will slow down your realtime performance! (you can also do it prior to the cut but disable the colourgrade until after the edit)

Incidently this was a digibetacam job where I injested everything as ‘off line’ in DV mode (to keep file sizes down and realtime performace high). After that I did a project trim and batch captured the trimmed project as uncompressed from the digibetacam.

I also recently completed a 5 camera workout video using the same technique. In fact I have never used the multicam mode in premiere because it requires rendering but my technique doesn’t.

Baz

[Troy Murison]

[BazinoZ] “Incidently this was a digibetacam job where I injested everything as ‘off line’ in DV mode (to keep file sizes down and realtime performace high). After that I did a project trim and batch captured the trimmed project as uncompressed from the digibetacam.”

Interestingly enough, you can’t even perform that offline/online workflow using PPro’s multicam function anyway. Project trimming and EDL export for conforming a multicam timeline doesn’t work. None of the source tape metadata makes it into the multicam sequence so project trimming results in having to recapture every frame of your sources anyway. Exporting a EDL of the multicam sequence results in every event being a AX event (no reel names) with matching source and sequence TC. This is a major bug/oversight in PPro right now, but I think most folks using multicam must be using it with DV sources and then that’s their final output so no harm done. Otherwise we’d surely hear more sqawking about this! I and I’m sure countless others have informed Adobe about this among countless other issues with metadata handling in PPro….

Your technique is great for this kind of workflow, especially if you can get real time performance anyway!

-Troy Murison
Seattle, WA

[Baz Leffler]

Taking my technique one step further, all you have to do is move all the clips to one layer after you have finished, very quickly using block move, and then you can create an EDL. If you have titles move them to the next layer up and they are included in the EDL as ‘keys’.

I normally create this EDL by starting a new sequence and then do a cut/paste of the main timeline and pasting into the new sequence. That way I can still keep my split track version.

But thanks Troy, I was not aware of Premiere’s multicam short-comings; sorta makes me glad I didn’t go down that path!

Baz