2 camera edit

This will be my first 2 camera edit, so be gentle.
1) How do i set up FCP to see both track simoutaneously ?
2) Once on the timeline, what is the best way to line up A and B track so that the audio maches perfectly ?
Thank you
Vic

Vic,
You need to use multicam editing which is available in 5.1. You've asked a somewhat complicated question. Pull out the manual and read up on multi-cam and then get back to use with questions on that, but you need to know a little more.
The key to good multicam editing is the ability to sync the two cameras accurately. You can search this forum for info on that with lots of suggestions.
Have you shot this yet? Get back with us, okay.

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Multi-Camera edits not applied

Hi and thanx in advance for your help.
Premiere Pro CS5. Windows 7 Pro 16 GB RAM lots of disk space. Premiere It is patched with all patches except the latest Facebook synch patch. This started a month ago. It may be related to the number of Timelines in a project. On my last project I started having this problem after about 10 Timelines were created in the project (a multi-song music video shoot). In my current project (a 6 hour talking head seminar) I now have about 10 Timelines and it started doing it again so that may be a related issue.
I am doing a four camera shoot. I create a base timeline with all four cameras for each speaker. I then use that speaker's base timeline to create a multi-camera edit timeline that I edit with the Multi-Camera Monitor window editing function. If I stop to make an immediate correction or to take a break, I restart by clicking the timeline window to make it the active window and opening the Multi-camera Monitor editing window and start editing. I'll go 10 or 15 minutes and stop only to find none of the edits are applied, The edits are exactly as they were before I started back up. Once I get about 10 timelines or so I begin to see this behaviour. This behaviour is inconsistent and there is no way to know if the edits will be applied until I stop.
I could try breaking up the project but each individual speaker's timeline is pulled from the primary timeline that contains all the speakers. (I copy the synched multi camera tracks and paste them into a new timeline for each speaker.)
Does ayone know what causes this?
Or how to fix it?
Again Thanx in advance,
mel

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Hi, Thanx in advance for your help.
We did a multi-camera shoot of a band. We ran through the set twice with 4 cameras, thats a total of 8 tracks. The 2nd run through for the stationary camera on the drummer can be dropped to reduce the count to 7. Hopefully the timing on the first and second set will the same. It should be close as these guys are tight.
I'm hoping some seasoned Premiere user can give me some pointers on how to best do a 7 camera Multi-Camera edit.
I was thinking I would do each 4 camera shoot as a multi-camera edit and then, assuming they synch, take the output from each set and do them as a two "camera" multi-camera edit.
Is there a better way?
Of course, if the don't synch...I try not to think about that.
Thanx,
Mel

Assuming all cameras were on continuous roll nd therefore in synch.....I think I would aproach it like this:
The band and the director probably know which of the two performances (takes) were the best.
That one I would edit multicam.
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An NLE, like PPRO ,can work a bit like a vision switcher in the sense (and I am sure you know this) that the Upper Track is dominant over under lying tracks. You can use this to your advantage as you cherry pick your other takes. eg find a section you might like to use then toggle the track on/off to see where it fits into the multicam edited sequence.

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Setup
I am recording 4 inputs from the Matrox VS4 via Wirecast 4.2 and also tried 5.0
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- I Have installed the Matrox VFW Software Codecs of a system which DOES NOT have the VS4 card
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Other Test
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- I have also reduced the MB/s on the ISO capture of 50MB/s
This is the CODEC you need to have installed on your computer in order to edit the view/edit the videos recorded by the Matrox VS4:
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/ver sion1.0/
The Matrox Video for Windows (VFW) software codecs let you render and play back Matrox .avi files in your VFW programs without having Matrox video hardware installed. This version provides codecs that were previously available only on systems that have particular Matrox video hardware, such as Matrox Axio. This includes the Matrox DVCPRO HD codec, and "+ Alpha" versions of the Matrox uncompressed and MPEG-2 I-frame codecs. As well, the Matrox VFW MPEG-2 I-frame HD codec now lets you render and play back Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame .avi files in all HD formats (720p, 1440x1080i/p, and full-size 1080i/p).
The following VFW software codecs are provided for use on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems:
Matrox DV/DVCAM
Matrox DVCPRO
Matrox DVCPRO50
Matrox DVCPRO HD
Matrox MPEG-2 I-frame in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha
Matrox Uncompressed in SD and HD resolutions, with or without alpha
Matrox Offline HD
Matrox M-JPEG and HDV (playback only)
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Thank you all.

Hello,
Please send me an email at;
[email protected]
I'll work with you to address your multicam performance issue with your VS4
Regards
W@

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Followed instructions exactly on tutorial disc for syncronizing clips.
I have 2 .avi clips with the sound dis-abled and a .wav file with the sound enabled.
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[email protected]

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IT WORKED. IT WORKS. I NOW HAVE AUDIO IN MY MULTI CAM EDIT WINDOW. The audio ( .wav file ) that I want to use.
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Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 13:12:21 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: No sound in mulit camera edit. CS3 premeire pro
I hear you, but I don't see how that work flow could have ever worked in CS3 (or other versions - I'm still CS3) unless the .wav is in Audio 1.
In addition to my suggestion above, I suppose you could put the wav in track 1 with no video in v1; and put the cams in v2 and 3. Keep the audio set to NOT follow cams, and then select between cam 2 and cam 3 for the video. It won't matter whether you mute tracks 2 and 3; you won't hear them anyway. You should hear only track 1 audio.
Here's the CS3 help file:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/PremierePro/3.0/index.html
Now I may have to take back what I said. I see that the help file says that if you select DO NOT follow cam for audio, it will use the audio in the selected track. So perhaps you used to select that track (I assume audio 3) and do not have it selected now (in the multicam source sequence).
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