Multi-Camera setup workflow CS6

Hello Forum,
My current project involves 4 camera angles with audio recorded on a separate 6 channel audio recorder.
I am having to do a long work around to make the multi-camera sequence take the 6 channel audio, but I am unable to recall it in the source window to play the audio.
What is the best way to setup a multicam sequence when audio is not from the cameras? (Syncing multiple takes from a tv show)
Cheers,
Ryan

In my view, the best way to set up any multicam sequence is still the original way - manually.
Create a sequence and add all your clips. Sync them manually. Create a second sequence and nest the first. Right click on that nested sequence and Enable Multicam.

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Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Editing multi‑camera sequences (CS6)

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/editing-multi-camera-sequences1.html

According to the tutorial at http://www.video2brain.com/en/videos-13067.htm audio now defaults not to Track 1 of the source sequence as it used to, but to the video first selected when choosing between the multiple cameras.
I understand TimB was wishing to mix audio in the audio mixer in the source sequences and apply that to the multicam sequence without export audio and re-importing.
According to my notes to self in June 2012 when I used CS6 to do a multicam project, I wrote:
“To enable audio for all cameras, right click on the Source Sequence and ‘Open in Timeline’
Enable all the audio tracks you want.”
And that was all.
However the PremPro instructions for CS6 says:
Enabling audio in the multi-camera source sequence
By default, Premiere Pro only enables audio channel one in the multi-camera source sequence. For multi-camera editing workflow, enable each audio track manually before editing the target sequence. To enable audio tracks for the multi-camera source sequence, do the following:
1. Open the multi-camera source sequence by selecting the multi-camera source sequence icon in the Project panel, right-click
(Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) the icon, and then choose Open In Timeline.
2. The Timeline opens. Select the audio tracks, and then enable the other audio tracks by clicking the Toggle Track Output
button for each audio track.
3. Now that all audio tracks are enabled, you can close the sequence
This is how I remember it but it doesn’t gel with TimB’s post. There are two sections in the Help pdf, one for CS5.5 (and I think CS5) and a separate one for CS6 as quoted above.

Audio limitation in CS6 multi-cam?

I'm trying to use stereo audio from my source files when I create a multi-cam clip (I've confirmed the source files are indeed stereo as there is different content on the left and right sides and when I bring that into a new sequence on it's own the source will use 2 audio tracks).
However, if I create a multicam clip in the media browser and bring that into a new sequence, the audio becomes mono and only refers to the left side of the source files and pans that center, making the right side unusable.
Is this a bug?

If the right channel is on A1, and the left channel is on A2, then you must open the multi-camera source sequence in a Timeline and enable A2.
Here's the part of Help I wanted you to note:
By default, Premiere Pro CS6 only enables audio channel one in the multi-camera source sequence. For multi-camera editing workflow, enable other audio tracks manually before editing the target sequence. To enable audio tracks for the multi-camera source sequence, do the following:
Open the multi-camera source sequence by selecting the multi-camera source sequence icon in the Project panel, right-click (Win) or Ctrl-click (Mac OS) the icon, and then choose Open In Timeline.
The Timeline opens. Select the audio tracks, and then enable the other audio tracks by clicking the Toggle Track Output button for each audio track you would like to monitor.
Now that your chosen audio tracks are enabled, you can close the sequence.
You should now be able to monitor both channels as you cut your multicamera source sequence.
Let us know if that worked for you.
Help article: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/editing-multi-camera-sequences1.html#id_60276

CS6 Premier Pro - Create Multi-Camera Source greyed out

CS6 on Mac OSX 10.9
I have been following the Adobe tutorial about how to do Multi-Camera editing. Following all the steps. Somehow what my Premiere offers me is not the same the guy does in the tutorial:
1) Put all the video & audio files in a bin in the Project tab. Tutorial says: right click the bin and you get contextual menu that offers "Create Multi-Camera Source". Nope - not getting that.
2) Selecting ALL files in that bin gives me the "Create Multi-Camera Source" option; but only if there isn't .wav or aif audio file in the list. The tutorial implies that audio files DO work.
3) When I finally found the set of video files that gave me the "Create Multi-Camera Source" option I got a dialog that was considerably smaller than the one in the tutorial. While the tutorial shows options for Timecode syncing and syncing via audio I only see Synchronize Point. To synchronize using audio would have been most useful.
It must be something I am doing wrong or something incorrect with my source files (mp4 at the same format and audio). But what?
Thanks
Peter

You can see a good tutorial on the entire process here - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/multicamera-workflows-with-premiere-pro/
The help page also gives step by step - Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Multi-camera editing workflow. I was talking about step 4. Create a multi-camera target sequence.

Speedgrade & Multi-Camera Source Sequences

Hi Everyone,
I just finished cutting an instrcutional video in Pr CS6. It was shot with 3 cameras and I have used the Multic-Camera Source function in PrCS6. It's been great, really handy. Now that I have sent the project to Speedgrade CS6, Sg is unable to open those clips that are in Multi-Camera Source Sequences in Pr. This kind of makes sense since Pr isn't directly referencing that specific clip, but pulling a section from the multi-camera clips. I'm afraid to ask, but is there a way to avoid this problem? The .mov and .mts files open in Sg but those that are in a Multi-Camera Source Seequences do not open.
Thank you so much for you time and knowledge.

You can see a good tutorial on the entire process here - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/multicamera-workflows-with-premiere-pro/
The help page also gives step by step - Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Multi-camera editing workflow. I was talking about step 4. Create a multi-camera target sequence.

Multi-camera Source sequence problems

I'm an absolute beginner and have made a mistake not including all the videos used in a job at the beginning of the ’Create Multi-Camers Source Sequence’ proces. I manually pulled some videos to the sequence after having opened the incomplete sequence in the timeline. I now cannot make an multi camera cutting process. Is there a way that I can include the new extra videos so Premier knows 'that it is there' and can be included in multi camera cutting. I hope my question is understandable and would lige a hint - so I do not loose two days of nudging clips i a one hour 15 minutes long film.

You can see a good tutorial on the entire process here - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/multicamera-workflows-with-premiere-pro/
The help page also gives step by step - Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Multi-camera editing workflow. I was talking about step 4. Create a multi-camera target sequence.

Help with multi camera editing in Premiere Pro

Ok I'm new...so bear with me.
I am editing a basic interview shot on two cameras and cutting away to some still images.
The rushes are 4 lots of film about 10 mins in length.
I inputted the footage from the two cameras and created a new sequence for each using the multi camera audio synchronisation method (which worked great).
So how do I go about creating my edit? Something tells me I'm going about it in the wrong way.
Do I need to create my edit using single camera shots and then create multi camera sequences for each individual clip? It seems so laborious as its all already synced up for two cameras.
I am a bit confused about creating clips v creating sequences.
I'm sorry if this is making some of you cringe :/ ....but I really can't find any help in online tutorials.
I need basic step by step instruction.

I am editing a basic interview shot on two cameras and cutting away to some still images.
The rushes are 4 lots of film about 10 mins in length.
I inputted the footage from the two cameras and created a new sequence for each using the multi camera audio synchronisation method (which worked great).
So how do I go about creating my edit? Something tells me I'm going about it in the wrong way.
Do I need to create my edit using single camera shots and then create multi camera sequences for each individual clip? It seems so laborious as its all already synced up for two cameras.
humm, sounds like your 4 lots do not overlap in time, and that there is space between each lot. So would that be 4 multi-camera sequences with the two cameras?
If so, why even multicamera edit that? and just set up to Video tracks, sync the audio and opacity keyframe between the two tracks.
Good to get your multi-camera edit workflow going proper though.
Sounds like you need to multi-camera edit your 4 sequences separately, unless you sync each lot with its corresponding clip and put on the same timeline, then do one sequence and one multi-camera edit

'create multi-camera source sequence' crashes premiere pro

Hi,
I use 'create multi-camera source sequence' to sync up 2nd system audio with DSLR footage.
If i select more than say 10 clips to sync with an audio file it will crash premiere pro CC 2014 50% of the time.
Does anyone else find this? is it naturally unstable?
syncing by 'audio mixdown'
I'm on a new Mac Pro 6 core, 16gb RAM, Pegasus 2 RAID.
Cheers

You can see a good tutorial on the entire process here - http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-premiere-pro-cc/multicamera-workflows-with-premiere-pro/
The help page also gives step by step - Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Multi-camera editing workflow. I was talking about step 4. Create a multi-camera target sequence.

CS6 Multi-camera greenscreen & multicam monitor?

Does anyone know if there's a way to do Multi-Camera Monitor editing, when the source footage uses multiple cameras against a greenscreen, when the greenscreen replacement layer is to be unique for each of the 3 angles?
I recently shot a few instructional videos in a greenscreen studio. My setup was such that I had 3 cameras, for three different angles, and remotely-recorded audio.
Now in the process of editing, I've hit a bit of a wall, and was hoping for some help.
I'm using Premiere Pro CS6, and I've set up the project as such:
The sequence in the timeline has 6 video layers: 1 layer for each of 3 camera angles, and 1 unique background replacement layer for each camera angle.
Now I want to use Multi-Camera Monitor to do my angle cuts. The problem is that Multi-Camera Monitor sees the 6 different video layers as unique camera layers.
I want to know if there's a way to do multicamera editing such that I can lock each camera and background replacement layer - such that Multi-Camera Monitor sees them as one.
My first attempted workaround was to create individual sequences for each of the 3 angles give them the background replacement treatment, then nest each of these into a new sequence, and go from there. The problem I've found in doing this is that the audio waveform display for each of the individual sequence layers disappears (once they are nested in the big sequence) - so I didn't see a way to sync things up without an audio source.@
I *could* always create and export each of the angles and replace the greenscreen for each as it should be, export each of them, and drag these to the Project panel to use as my new "original layers". Just seems like a lot of extra work, and that there would be an easier way to do all this.
Also thinking I could create a master source sequence (every angle, background replacement, audio, synced up), duplicate it three times and delete 2 of the camera angles in each, then combine each in a nested sequence with the audio, then make my cuts in yet another sqeuence with Multi-Camera Monitor. Again, seems like this should be easier somehow.
Any advice would be very helpful. I couldn't seem to find any answers elsewhere. Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the note.
I thought about the first option - the problem is perspective (The background is slightly different for each angle, not uniform). And dragging the backgrounds to a BG layer later would be somewhat time intensive.
Nesting is interesting, but I've got so many of these videos, the Multicam Monitor way of editing together angles seems like it would be less work in the end.
Here's the workflow I think I'm going to go with:
Create a 'Master Source Sequence', and align everything. (Angle 1, Background for angle 1, Angle 2, Background for angle 2, Angle 3, Background for angle 3, Audio tracks).
Duplicate this sequence 3 times. Delete all elements from each copy except for one of the cam angles, and rename each to 'Cam 1 Sequence', 'Cam 2 Sequence', 'Cam 3 Sequence'.
Drag each of these 3 to a new sequence, called 'Prep for Multicam Sequence'.
Drag this to 'Mutlicam Cut Sequence', drag in external audio tracks from 'Master Source Sequence', cut with Multicam as normal.
Again, thanks for the follow up!

Multi-camera AVCHD editing workflow in Premiere CS4

I have a client project that has me wondering what workflow to use and I someone on this forum probably has the expertise to know the right solution. My requirements...
1. Client is recording a scene using 4 cameras at once, like a live TV show is shot, all AVCHD footage, 1920x1080px 17mbs, square pixels.
2. I must playback in Premiere the 4 video streams in real time and choose one camera to output, like a director would switch a live TV show. So, all 4 streams are playing in Premiere's multiple-camera editing windows. Each show I'm editing is about 1 hour long. The advantage of multi-camera editing of course is I can play all 4 cameras at once and live switch between them in Premiere to arrive at a 1 hour show in 1 hour of editing time.
3. Until I can upgrade my hardware that can possibly handle 4 streams of AVCHD, I'm stuck needing a workflow to convert the original AVCHD to some lowres format, edit those offline low res copies to get my edit decision list, and then reconnect the online HDV AVCHD clips to export through Media Encoder for a final production. My output format is Flash F4V 640x360 px square pixels for Internet playback.
4. Hardware: I'm running Windows 7 RC using CS4 Premiere 4.1, 4gb RAM, 2.4ghz dual-core processor with 64mb Intel turbo boost on a notebook PC. I do have 4 hard drives to hold each camera's footage on its own drive, and a fifth drive to ouput the edited version to, in addition to a drive to hold my OS and Premiere. The external drives are connected via eSATA to the notebook.
Question 1: what do you suggest as the lowres format I should convert my AVCHD footage to for multi-camera playback/editing in Premiere?
Question 2: do you think it's even possible to buy a desktop PC that can handle playback of 4 multicam AVCHD native format files in Premiere in real time? I'm concerned this may be too much for even the most powerful systems, and I would need to resort to editing lowres footage even with the most powerful desktop. As you know, decompressing one or two AVCHD streams is taxing to a PC so 4 at once is a challenge.
Question 3: an alternative workflow would be to feed live video out of the HDMI connectors on the cameras into four HDMI capture cards (Intensity Blackmagic) and capture uncompressed HDV bypassing AVCHD compression altogether, but the disk space required would be substantial. Does this make sense? I've even considered feeding those 4 HDMI feeds into a video switcher between the cameras and PCs but the cheapest solution I can find that can provide genlock (frame sync) between the 4 cameras for clean glitch-free switching is quite expensive, thousands of dollars invested.

I must playback in Premiere the 4 video streams in real time
Good luck with that. Many folks have trouble with even one stream.
edit those offline low res copies to get my edit decision list
I'm not sure offline editing with AVCHD will be possible because of the folder structure. You may not be able to 'replace' the lower res copies with AVCHD.
My output format is Flash F4V 640x360 px square pixels for Internet playback.
Oh, man. Shooting HD of any flavor is just overkill that adds unnecessary work to the process. Have your client shoot in DV.

Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence Options Box Problem in CS6

Hello there; it seems in my CS6 i dont the complete box as the below:-
i only have in points, Out points and Time codes ( I dont have the Audio and the remain box) as the above.
Is anyone able to en-light me? as i have to do Multicam project as as possible
Regards & Thanks

that seems to be exclusive to the CC version. so you would either have to upgrade or find a work around. you can manually sync the footage using markers or in points, or if doing this alot and you dont want to upgrade might look at pluraleyes.
manual by in points: Setting up multi-camera Sequences in Premiere Pro CS6 | lynda.com - YouTube
by marker: Adobe Premiere Pro CC Tutorial | Performing Multi-Camera Editing - YouTube
pluraleyes: Multicam edits in Premiere Pro CS5 using PluralEyes - YouTube

Editing multi-camera in CS6

Looking for this page:
http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/editing-multi-camera-sequences.html
But for CS6, not CS5.5 and earlier. This stuff has changed for CS6, but I can't seem to find the help documents that talk about it, and we don't yet have the PDFs to look stuff up in. Anyone show me where to find it?

There is a pretty simple way to sync multiple tracks of video on the timeline using unnumbered clip markers. Basically you find the frame in each track you want the all the tracks to sync to and in each track add an unnumber marker at that point. Then there is a command that will move the tracks to line up those unnumbered markers and, shazam, you are synced! Here is an excerpt from a help discussion from Adobe:
Synchronize clips with markers
Make sure that you’ve marked the sync points for each camera’s footage before you attempt to synchronize them. You can mark the sync points by setting similarly numbered markers for each clip or by reassigning each clip’s timecode. (See Add markers and Set timecode manually for a clip.)
Note: Premiere Pro uses an overwrite edit when synchronizing clips. Take care not to overwrite adjacent clips if you have multiple clips on the same track.
Select the clips you want to synchronize.
Target a track (by clicking its track header) to align the other clips to it. For example, if you synchronize clips on their Out point, the end of each clip aligns with the Out point of the targeted track. A clip will be trimmed if synchronization causes its In point to fall before the sequence zero point.
Note: If one track of a linked audio/video pair is unselected, the pair will become out of sync. Out-of-sync indicators will appear on the clips.
Choose Clip > Synchronize, and then choose one of the following options:
Clip Start
Synchronizes clips at their In points.
Clip End
Synchronizes clips at their Out points.
Timecode
Synchronizes clips to the specified timecode. If you use the hours value in source timecode as a camera designator, select the Ignore Hours option to use only minutes, seconds, and frames to synchronize clips.
Numbered Clip Marker
Synchronizes clips to the specified numbered clip marker. Choose the marker number to use from the Marker menu.
You can also use the Synchronize command to sync several video clips on separate tracks or unlinked audio and video tracks when you are not editing a multi-camera sequence.

Rapid Tapeless Multi-camera workflow with OnLocation

I am wondering whether anyone is using OnLocation for rapid (read almost instant) tapeless workflow.
What I would like to do is:
1 - Use 4 Sony V1U HDV cameras and ISO record all of them as HDV files.
2 - Record the ISO on four separate laptops running OnLocation via a Firewire feed from each camera.
3 - Store the clips (as they are being recorded) onto four external eSATA drives (one for each camera/laptop combo)
4 - After 90 minute recording is complete, move the four external eSATA drives to a central workstation running CS4 and equipped with 4 eSATA ports.
5 - Then WITHOUT copying the files from the external drives, immediately start editing a multi-cam session.
Can I do this?
Are there any "gotcha's?"
What kind of of pre-processing of the clips is necessary if any? (audio or video "conforming"?)
Does timecode stay with the files?
How long after I mount the drives might I be ready to start editing? 1 minute? 5 minutes 1 hour or more?
I need to do a FAST turnaround, but cannot do a live switch.......
Thanks!
Mike Fayette

That actually sounds pretty cool. The only question I'd maybe ask is what is cheaper: 4 laptops with onlocation, or 4 solid state recording devices for your cameras (like Convergent's little one which records from the HD-SDI port of the camera)?
If you need the functionality of OL, like scopes and what not, then sure it sounds like it's the way to go. Just sayin there may be alternatives?
http://www.convergent-design.com/CD_Products_nanoFlash.htm
But I saw a handful of others along this line at NAB last year.
MP

CS6 multi-camera monitoring playback is slow/stops entirely

Hey all,
I've been searching forums for a workaround to this and I've come up empty - either the conversation gets bogged down in video card/hardware discussions or moves away from the issue entirely.
I am working on a 2012 Mac Pro tower with 24GB of ram and an ATI HD 5870 card. I've got 5 edited sequences for a music video that I've rendered out and I've nested those five to create an editional edit from those. I rendered to apple pro res 422 HQ, which is generally what I use for my working files. I had (relatively) no issues rendering out the 5 sequences/multi camera editing those (each containing 4 different camera angles). Now, when trying to pull those 5 sequences together and doing a multi cam, playback doesn't roll for more than 1-2 seconds before grinding to a half. My source files are on a seperate, internal HD from my project file, and I can't think of what else I might be able to do to get this to work
Any ideas? Help would be much appreciated - I really want to this multi cam edit to be the base of the video and from there I'll get more creative with my cuts and add clips manually.

You would have been better off just editing the native media, I think. PP is a different animal than FCP. You'll no longer need some of the bad habits you picked up using it.

Poor multi-camera performance in Premiere Pro CS6

I've been trying to edit my camera footage using multi-camera window and the playback is extremely choppy and slow in the viewer, so I pretty much cannot use it. Any ideas? Are there certain settings I can tweak?
I did a search and it seems like the CPU/GPU would be the bottlenecks but I believe my machine is pretty good: i7 2700k with SATA III SSD, GTX 480 and 16GB of RAM.
Thank you in advance for your help.

What driver are you on for your GTX 480?
I'm aware of a number of things that have been reported as causing choppy playback
Playback Resolution and Paused Resolution being set to full. If that's the case, try dialing back to 1/2 or even 1/4.
A high number of layers. How many are in your multicam sequence? Also, do you have any cases of a sequence containing a nested sequence that in turn contains a nested sequence?
The type of video--some are more resource intensive to decode than othters. What kind are you working with (codec and wrapper)?
Using multiple graphics cards
Effects. Which ones are you using, if any?
A slow hard drive, or using an external without a fast enough interface. (from the info you provided, that doesn't sound like a likely culprit)
It might be worth downloading the trial of Premiere Pro CC to see if performance is better in the new version. I'm not trying to sell you on subscribing to Creative Cloud. It would just be good to know if you find better performance in CC.

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