Best Workflow for Multicam Sequences?

I have a project that includes video from 2 cameras and audio from 2 audio recorders. I synced everything up using PluralEyes, then imported it back into Premiere. Then I opened the synced sequence, deleted the camera audio, nested the video, and enabled multicam. After that, I started going through and editing the multicam footage by selecting the appropriate camera by pressing 1 or 2 (or command-clicking on the appropriate camera in multicam view). My question is, now that I've synced everything up and finished my rough multicam edits, how do I mark the selections of the sequence that I would like to keep?
For example, part of the sequence is an interview. Instead of just cutting the sequence up, I would like to first mark and label the portions of the interview that I would like to keep. That way I can easily go through and know what the interviewee is speaking about in each clip without having to play the whole thing. I understand that to do this on the original clips in the source monitor, I would need to create subclips. But how do I do it on a synced multicam sequence? Is there a way to open the sequence in the source monitor? What's the best workflow for something like this?
I've been using Premiere for all of two days (switched from FCPX), so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I use comment markers for this sort of thing as I prefer to keep my project bins thin. To open a sequence in the source monitor, right-click on the sequence in the project window and select Open in Source Monitor. Position the play head at a point of interest and press M. Go to Window>Markers to view a list of markers and add comments. When you want to review a marked section click the corresponding marker in the marker window and the play head will advance to that point. Btw, you can do this within the timeline and in any monitor, not just the source monitor.

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If anyone working with PPRO and TIFF sequences has any great advice like what to 'watch out for' or whatever, I would be highly appreciative !
PS - I tried searching the PPRO CS5 forum but no matter what I enter in the search field, it always renders "No Results Found"
This is happening across all adobe's forums - perhaps the search engine has a BUG ===
I am using Safari on Snow Leopard !

I knew about the trick of dragging the media to the seq icon to have premiere pro create the 'right' sequence.
Just thought there might be some better settings for using tiff sequences...
Thanks though..
Regarding batch import of tiff sequences.
For the world of me, I cannot figure out why drag n dropping an image sequence to PPRO would spark the app to import all the tiffs as individual files, instead of setting the "Image Sequence" bit... if the folder contains 1200 tiffs.
Definitely A LOT of improvement that can be done "Image-Sequence-Wise" in PPro - especially when considering the PRO-name in the application name.
Workflow for image sequences is very un-pro in PPRO :-))))
Anyway, I am an AVID Quickeys user and I have programmed a Quickey-Script that will batch import the 100 tiff sequences that I have residing in 100 folders. I click one shortkey and Quickeys iterates through the 100 folders and half an hour later as I came back to the Mac - they had all been imported.
That beats having to manually import 100 times. Imagine I had had 700 clips - ALL - Tiff or other Image Sequences...
Anyway, quickeys is a VERY useful tool for repetitive tasks and saves me HOURS literally every day....
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Right now I'm just creating cuts in the synced sequence and deleting what I don't need.

Select the multicam clip in the browser. Play it, mark In and Out points and press F to mark the segments as favorites.

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>I'm using FCP 6.5
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And no, there's no way to make a logging sheet for these apps either.
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What is the best workflow for Final Cut Pro X across multiple computers?

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My first question would be how well 5.1 would work with SL. People have reported problems.
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Hi all,
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Thanks shooternz,
The client has specifically requested each file be QC checked. They will be delivering files to us for editing, which will be broadcast after we return the files.
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In my book I recommend that, whenever you start a new project, you create a new folder for it. That way, all of your captured video, project files, rendered video and scratch files are in the same folder. Removing it all from your hard drive is as simple as deleting the folder.
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Thank you

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Best workflow for creating games for pc and starling games in AIR

best workflow for creating games for pc and starling games in AIR.
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CHEERS

The other thing is that I can't see the games being very different as you suggest. I have downloaded Lee Brimelows tut on creating a starling game on Lynda.com and the code is great for creating games using states for menu, play, gameover etc... The only difference is that he uses texture atlas and there is a great difference in loading them etc... so technically you would only need to handle them in a different class as collision and the rest of game play should be the same in both. I think!!!
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Multipage forms- best workflow for future editing

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bit hard to follow there justin.
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I am in a similar mode, though about half as much existing DV footage.
+Should I maintain my event library in .dv format? (and bite the bullet on the storage)+
Short answer, yes; long answer:
I did "bite the bullet" since 1T drives are at or just over $100. I'm using a MacBook Pro so I bought an 2 port eSATA card for my cardbus slot ($34), and a 1T eSATA/Firewire/USB drive ($119). I don't plan to "back up" as I am not going to get rid of my Mini DV tapes/vhs/analog tapes, etc. Those will be in an off-site dark cool closet elsewhere. I don't want to do RAID or such as it still puts everything in the same drive unit, in the same location. Basically I'm splitting my video import to two different physical drives. So if lightning, thieves, personal incompetence or whatever strikes, there's more chance it'll only affect one of the drives. I've thought about a Drobo, which you might consider. It is unique device that offers a spin on RAID that offers some advantages.
Everything I read here on these boards suggests that it is best to grab the source video in the original format whenever possible. Since storage is cheap, makes sense to me.
It is likely you wouldn't compress your video unless you were going to edit it. For example if you wanted to make a video of the kids growing up to give the relatives you'd likely end up compressing to burn them a dvd. You would compress if you were going to use MobileMe, YouTube, etc. to post some footage. Whether you watch the video from home, or output to DVD for others, or post online, at least you'll have the source video in it's best possible original format to work with.
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3) Share to Media Browser with Best Quality
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(I don't know what Media Browser is yet.)
I did this: (I got some warnings - did you?)
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Selected my 1280x720 "HD" video in the Project panel,
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Picture quality is soft compared to HD material, but the moire patterns on some edges is only somewhat reduced over the Share to iDVD version. This Share to Media Browser version is acceptable for folks that won't go to Vimeo or YouTube to see my videos in HD.

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