Toggle visibility video tracks

[Eric Santiago]

Maybe this will help https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/three-premiere-pro-cc-shortcuts-you-shouldnt-edit-without/

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Eric,
Thank you for your answer, but unfortunately, this explains the toggling of the target of the tracks, not the visibility.

Lieven

[Andy Ford]

I’m not sure of a shortcut to do it on a specific track, but you can Shift-click the visibility icon on any video track to toggle visibility on/off for all your tracks at once.

————————————————-
Video Producer / Digital Marketer / Reviewer / Author
http://www.AndyFordVideo.com
————————————————-

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Andy,

Yes thanks, I know about that option. But I need to check quickly between two (multicam)video tracks if my sync is right or not.
So, instead of clicking it, I think I would win half of my time by having a shortcut (it’s a thing I have to do 400 times a day ☺ )

Thanks,
Lieven

[Blaise Douros]

Why not just import the contents of your second Multicam track into the first? If you’re using (for example) four shots per Multicam sequence, couldn’t you just drop all eight into one? Then you’d be able to see sync in your Multicam viewer, without toggling tracks.

[Jim Curtis]

Yes. Use Clip > Enable. I have a shortcut assigned so I can toggle visibility on and off as needed. Works on one clip or a group of clips that you lassoed or shift-clicked or whatever.

Jim Curtis
jamesphilipcurtis.com

MacPro7,1 24-core – 256 GB RAM – AMD Radeon Pro Vega II 32 GB – 10.15.5

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

Do you mean a multicamera source sequence?
It’s actually such a sequence, but I open it in the timeline. I need to sync up the slates of two camera positions each time, but sometimes the slate of one position is one frame off in comparison with the other one.

Everything is unlinked (audio came separately) so I move clips now, by clicking them and pressing CMD + left arrow or right arrow. I first check one video track, then I check the track above or below, by changing the visibility.
Maybe, there’s a handier way of doing that and I’m too inexperienced in working with multicam ☺ , and is there a possibility to see and move a clip a frame in multicam view.

Thank you,
Lieven

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Jim,

Thanks, but it still has the necessity of moving my hand to the mouse, clicking a clip, and disabling it, and moving back to the keyboard to work on the clip below, move my hand again, click it again, and enable it again.
I would like not to use the mouse, and that’s why I wanted to toggle the track by pressing for example 1 for V1, 2 for V2, and so on.

Lieven

[Blaise Douros]

I don’t think there’s any keyboard shortcut for what you want to do. I was thinking you were trying to sync up two separate multicam source sequences, but it sounds like you’re just setting up multicam sequences for normal use. Is there no reference audio from the camera? Premiere can sync by matching audio tracks.

If this is a workflow you’re going to be using a lot, then speaking to the producer about using genlock on set would be pretty useful–that way you could just sync all your clips in the multicam sequence by timecode and walk away. Alternately, having even one track of camera audio to use for sync purposes, so you don’t have to do it manually, would be enough, too.

Either of these would save them a ton of money on your time in post, and in particular, a camera audio reference track would be incredibly easy for them to add on set. It would be a win/win.

[Leevun Vanhove]

Hi Blaise,

Thank you for your suggestion.
There is reference audio from the camera, but I’m syncing using the timecode which is given in the metadata of the image and the separate sound files.

Even though these timecodes are 70% correct, sometimes it drifts depending on which camera I look at (A or B), with one or 2 frames, so I have to check these manually.

Are you saying to sync everything using the “audio” option from the “create multi-camera source sequence” (instead of the “timecode” option) will do all this work for me? Won’t it take a very long time to calculate everything (each sound file has 9 tracks, both from the camera and the files from the sound-guy)?

If that option still would have a drifting sync (because the timecode started drifting on the set due to calibration issues):
Is there a way of seeing the timeline, and seeing the camera points all at once, so I don’t have to switch between the visibility of both tracks?

Thanks,
Lieven