[Roel Bus]

I was contacted by phone and email a few weeks ago, with someone who told me some of my programs in the production suite were not up to date…. The email looked legit enough at first, but the message made no sense.
I replied with a “don’t contact me again” and haven’t heard anything since.

Updates are done automatically, so it didn’t make any sense to me, so this message solidified to me that someone or ones are trying to access peoples adobe information.

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Just use your audio only track as one of the angles, properly synced of course, and it will become a selectable angle in your multi clip

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Richard,
In my limited experience with this in Premiere (but have done lots of it in Final Cut), I do think it is a little clunkier than in FCP. The actual multicam cutting from one angle to another happens in the multicam window, but then updates in the timeline. If you want to fine tune and tweak, you can obviously still do that with roll and ripple edits in the timeline. If you leave the multicam window open, it gangs and updates where the time indicator is in the timeline.
A few glitches on my machine (and I don’t think they are supposed to happen…):
When I hit stop to pause the multicam edit, it creates a cut on the timeline and often, but not always, switches angles at that point…
The JKL keys functionality stops working after you switch to the second angle. I can use it to navigate in the beginning, but it stops after the first switch…
My workaround is to rough cut in the multicam window (and the record button seems to be just decoration, because it cuts in the timeline, even if I forget to press it), and then tweak in the timeline.
The clips always stay multiclips, so you can always turn on the multicam window and switch angles again. Alternatively, right-click on the clip itself, find “multicam” and switch the angle there.
A bit lenghty, but I hope it helped a little.
Cheers,
Roel

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Just make sure the VRAM is at 1GB. I bought mine this summer from Apple and didn’t realize it only has 500 MB VRAM, and the option is still greyed out.

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@Sunny: That is what I’m asking…
To me that is where the future is heading, but the tech at Seagate said that if you use SSD (or a hybrid) for media in video editing, it will wear them out sooner because of too much reading and writing??
This all started because I could not even write any video files to this hybrid drive.
But now it’s also given me error messages trying to clone the system drive in the laptop, so it’s probable just the hard drive, or the connection with the caddy that I had to use when I replaced the DVD drive in the MacBook Pro…

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I forgot to mention another anomaly (I think anyway). In the multicam monitor JKL quits working as soon as you have changed an angle. I’m still working in Snow Leopard, don’t know if that has anything to do with it.

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Thanks for posting this, I had the same thing happen to me. My daughter is learning PPRO, and was working on it today, then closed it. When I came home from work, it would not load. I did exactly what you did, and it opened…… weird.

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Hi David,
From an editing perspective, especially when adding more complicated filters or use more than one stream of video, it’s not a good idea to have your footage on your system drive. Especially because unless you chose a 7200 RPM drive at purchase, it is a 5400 RPM drive, which is too slow to handle video sustainably.
Use an external drive, and you should see improvement. You will want to look at some kind of RAID system to avoid frustration: video streams are getting larger in filesize, and although PP can handle native DSLR footage, it is taxing on the system.

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It’s a single drive in this case. I wanted it to be portable. I have an eternal RAID (SATA) inside my MacPro, but the computer is the one needing upgrading in that case…

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Thanks Andy,
The biggest reason why I wrote is that it happened with this Thunderbolt drive, and you’re right, it’s a 7200 RPM drive, but I haven’t had this issue with a firewire 800 drive before. I knew I couldn’t push it too much, but it could handle two streams. And that is all I’m throwing at this drive.
But the drive speed and lack of RAID makes sense. A bigger hose doesn’t make the pump run faster….