Help syncing 3 clips

Hi everyone,
I am having a lot of trouble syncing three clips for a multi cam edit (which should be really simple!). I want to sync by clip marker so I opened each clip in the source monitor, and added a clip marker to the sync point (and named all the markers the same thing). When I select all the clips then "Create multi cam source sequence", the "clip marker" option under sync point is greyed out. I am getting really frustrated with this as I think it really shouldn't be this hard. And before anyone suggests it, yes I have tried the audio sync and that fails, clip marker is my best option.
Help?

Would really appreciate some help with this. I have three videos that need to get done and I can't make any progress until I get this figured out. What happened to syncing the clips in a sequence and then nesting that sequence? Why does that not seem to work anymore?

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