[Philip Grosvenor]

Ahh, I understand what you’re saying now. Thanks for clarifying!

[Philip Grosvenor]

Thanks for the reply! I’m not sure if I was clear enough in my original post. We produce unscripted fine art tutorials that usually clock in around 2-2.5 hours. We would like whoever is running the switcher to be able to mark down a rough timecode of when a mistake was made, locate it in Premiere Pro later, roll the edit or switch the camera that was chosen, and pump out a slightly more polished rough cut (with some graphics added here and there).

Currently, we run three cameras, sync to a clapboard, download all footage from cameras, and multi-cam edit 2-2.5 hour programs from eSATA toasters. If I understand what you’re saying correctly, we would have to sit through the whole 2-2.5 program in Premiere Pro again, which would render the first switch basically useless. Using the TriCaster (which we don’t own) to tweak the original edit will not work because of the quantity of filming we do.

I think being able to tweak a multi-camera source sequence made by a switcher (eliminating hours of multi-cam editing) is completely practical.

[Philip Grosvenor]

Interesting note… I tried editing these HDV clips with a GTX 570 on another machine using PP 5.5, and it was a no go. Downloaded CS6 trial, and it worked in software only mode.