`~`* Multi-Cam = DSLR sending me to LOONEY BIN!!

First off, my system properties...
quad core, 16GB RAM, GTX550Ti graphics card
Premiere CS5.5
I'm editing multi-cam....
Two camera's with diff properties -
Cam #1) 29.97fps + 1.33 PAR + 1440X1080
Cam #2) 23.97 fps + 1.0 PAR + 1920X1080 = (DSLR)
The main problem I'm having has to do with the DSLR - cam #2...seems to be making premiere go a little haywire.
The two big issues =
A) When opening project, sometimes DSLR footage shows up in the project panel....sometimes it doesn't. It just says media pending. A couple times it's said "media offline".
I have to quit premiere and start it back up and usually it pops back up...sometimes further opening/closing is required.
Initially when I imported the files into the various projects (about 13 total proj's for the series I'm producing)....the DSLR footage did not import. It just froze premiere and had to open/close...try until it worked. Some proj's the footage imported right away. Same project settings.
B) Currently, I'm rendering the video's and about 12 diff times so far, the exports either don't start when I start queue....or they do start but freeze at a given point (5%, 15%, 40% complete).
I would think this has to do with the DSLR #2 cam but that's what I want your insight on. I then close the proj out + encoder, and reopen and repeat until it works. It's worked for all with exception of one video.
Why is the DSLR giving such trouble - as listed above?
Any solutions for this?
The DSLR plays choppy as well, even when I match sequence exactly to video. But, my computer isn't taxed at all = low CPU/RAM.
Don't understand it...
All I know is it's a massive pain in the tush!
Other details...
I tried editing via the multicam monitor but the playback was so choppy I decided to just created a nested sequence and edit via timeline.
The sequence that worked best = specs matching Cam #1 (listed above)...so I went with that.
Is there a better way to setup the sequence for two diff camera's with diff properties?
Maybe...right clicking the DSLR footage - interpreting footage - assume frame rate...and maybe other settings?
Other issues that you may be able to help out with...
When you create a nested sequence and enable multi-cam - the audio waveform disappears. I tried a few things and searched around for a way to get audio waveform to reappear. Ultimately, I rendered the audio and audio wave pops back up.
But...
If I have to close project, switch to another project or the proj crashes, etc.....the rendered audio waveform disappears and I need to re-render again. Is there a way to remedy this? I just need to see the waveform without having to re-render or render at all. I only need one audio track for the two camera's.
Thanks for your help - really appreciate it.
P.S. - don't know why it's highlighting my text w/white box...tried fixing but no dice.

Thanks Fuzzy and Dave...
Dave - disk setup...
Everything is on C drive when it comes to adobe files, media cache, etc...
All the elements/media (video, images, etc..) for the project are on an external 500GB HDD.
There's def. a reason why I'm running into all these problems namely, what's below, but just need to obviously pinpoint what the source of the problem actually is...asap...
A) When opening project, sometimes DSLR footage shows up in the project panel....sometimes it doesn't. It just says media pending. A couple times it's said "media offline".
I have to quit premiere and start it back up and usually it pops back up...sometimes further opening/closing is required.
Initially when I imported the files into the various projects (about 13 total proj's for the series I'm producing)....the DSLR footage did not import. It just froze premiere and had to open/close...try until it worked. Some proj's the footage imported right away. Same project settings.
B) Currently, I'm rendering the video's and about 12 diff times so far, the exports either don't start when I start queue....or they do start but freeze at a given point (5%, 15%, 40% complete).
I would think this has to do with the DSLR #2 cam but that's what I want your insight on. I then close the proj out + encoder, and reopen and repeat until it works. It's worked for all with exception of one video.
Another thing I forgot to add to the above...
I'm not able to add these video's the render queue. I need to render each one by one because of the same trouble - the next video in queue after previous is finished, usually doesn't even load to begin rendering. The encoder just gets stuck.
Regarding what you said Dave =
I agree with Fuzzy - if your system can't cope with the dynamic matching, transcode your DV camera #1 clip into regular 1080p and use a matching sequence for the multicam. Beyond that, you could render proxies for everything.
My system does seem to be able to handle it b/c as I said, I have low CPU/RAM usage and I'm GPU accelerated.
In terms of playback, I get the same amount of "drag" with mixed footage in a sequence matching Cam #1 than when I match seq. to Cam #2 (DSLR). So more strangenosity! Again, my comp isn't taxed = low CPU/RAM.
You guys rec transcoding. Interpreting footage and matching to DSLR wouldn't be effective?
You think a mismatch in footage is causing all the problems I've listed? Doesn't seem to be the case.
Maybe it's the disk setup as you suggested but I wouldn't think so. Seems to be just a standard setup I've got.
Thank you - talk soon

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Multi-cam edit issues with multiple DSLR clips

Hello,
Working in CC. I have 2 camera angles that were filmed with 2 DSLRs, and mic'd audio that was recorded into a Zoom H4N. Audio recording never stopped, but due to the nature of DSLRs, the 2 cameras would stop recording every 12 +/- minutes. In this end, I have:
Camera 1 - 16 clips
Camera 2 - 17 clips
Zoom H4N - 1 track
When using the multi-cam source sequence option, it understandably thinks each clip is a new camera/angle. However, that's not very helpful for me when I have 17 angles (15 of which are blank) showing up in the program monitor. Any suggestions on how to better tackle this dilemma?
Thank You.

Thanks, Mark. Appreciate the quick response. After messing around, I combined your method with PluralEyes (seemed less tedious that syncing 17 clips manually). There might be a faster/easier way, but this is what I did, in case any one is curious (sounds more tedious than it actual is):
1. Select cam 1 clip 1, cam 2 clip 1 and external audio in the Browser.
2. Left-click, "create Multi-Camera Source Sequence." Two angles and audio are now in a multi-cam sequence. Rename as Multicam_Source_Sequence
3. Create new sequence, called Sequence_01 and open in timeline.
3. Excluding cam 1 clip 1 and cam 2 clip 1, drag all remaining clips of cam 1 to V1, all remaining cam 2 clips to V2, and single external audio to A3 into Sequence_01 timeline.
4. Launch Sequence_01 into PluralEyes 3. Sync and Export.
5. Open PluralEyes' "Sequence_01_synced" (not "Sequence_01_synced Replaced") in timeline.
6. Find a good marker point toward the beginning of the audio where it has synced cam 1 clip 2 and cam 2 clip 2. Cut at that point.
7. Copy all video tracks (exclude audio tracks).
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10. Paste video clips. All tracks are now synced in a multi-cam sequence.
From here, it's the usual steps for preparing multi-cam editing, like you mentioned.
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14. Right-click the nested sequence>Multi-Camera>Enable.
15. Enable Multi-camera view in Program Monitor's panel menu.
Voila! Took me awhile, but this works.And no 17 angles popping up in the program monitor. Let me know if you'd add (or remove) anything. Thanks, again!

Dynamic link problem, PPro cs5 - AE cs5, multi-cam sequence

This is odd. I'm working on a two camera interview in Production Premium CS5. Did the standard stuff - a source sequence with both cameras, did some rough editing here (syncing the two cameras, trimming the clips, etc.). Then nested the source sequence into a multi-cam edit sequence. Used the multi-cam monitor to switch back and forth between cameras, etc. All is good.
But my editor wants to make three separate videos from this interview. So the logical thing (so I thought anyway) would be to nest this muiti-cam edit squence into three separate target sequences. Then I could get the camera switching done just once, and slice-'n-dice the three target sequences to make the short-'n-sweet individual videos that make my editor happy. Did this for the first target (a single question and answer). The result looks fine in PPro, and editor approves. All that's left is adding the lower thirds.
Everything fine until I go to export to AE via dynamic link so I can add lower thirds and finish up. What PPro sends to AE isn't just my target sequence, but it also sends the multi-cam edit sequence and the source sequence as well. But.... it ignores it all and will only show me the Acam footage. Bcam doesn't show up at all. Clearly this isn't working. But now I find that I can't even break the links. So I can't even start over. Sigh...
Two questions: First, how does one export a multi-cam edit sequence via dynamic link from PPro to AE, and have it show up in AE looking like it does in PPro? In other words, what did I do wrong?
Second, how can I recover from this? Do I really have to delete my target sequence in PPro and start over (and by extension, delete the AE project also)? Is there no way to sever a dynamic link once it's made?
Bruce Watson

Um.... didn't work. Seems that AE and PPro have different ideas of what "transparency" mean. The lower thirds composition in AE has a transparent (black) background which works fine in AE (I've used this lower thirds quite a bit in AE so I know it works pretty well), but when I import it into PPro it shows as white, and is completely opaque. Lettering doesn't show up either (but the letters are white so that's not such a surprise given the background), but the motion is still there. None-the-less, either way I tried it (copy and paste, or export from AE as a PPro project, then import it in PPro and drag the AE built sequence to the timeline) didn't work.
Trying to export just the lower third comp from AE through dynamic link as a PPro project didn't work either. Failed weirdly. It popped up the right sequence creation box in PPro, so I could pick AVCHD 1080p30 as the sequence type (matching the other sequences in the project), and created the new sequence with the correct name. But the sequence was empty. It wouldn't let me drag the lower third sequence anywhere either, so I couldn't put it on a timeline.
Sigh... this isn't supposed to be this difficult. But hey, if it was easy anyone could do it, yes?

FR: Full Screen Preview of Multi-Camera Angles

The Program monitor can be viewed in Full Screen mode, as we all know, but when the Program monitor is displaying Multi-camera angles, it can only viewed in windowed mode. Full Screen mode no longer works in this situation. This is inconsistent, illogical and unproductive, thus my new FR for Adobe to allow the Program Monitor to be viewed in Full Screen mode, regardless of what it's displaying:
(feel free to copy/paste and send as your own FR here: www.adobe.com/go/wish)
How would you like the feature to work?
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature: Full Screen Preview for Camera Angles
How would you like the feature to work?
The Program and Source Monitors can both be toggled in/out of Full Screen mode with a single keyboard shortcut, a fantastic feature. Why then can't the Program Monitor display in Full Screen when it's displaying Camera Angles, either with the Multi-Camera Preview Monitor on or off? A window that can be viewed in Full Screen should always allow full screen preview, regardless of what it is displaying!
Why is this feature important to you?
Consistency and a logical, productive UI is beneficial to all editors. The fact that the Program Monitor window can be viewed in Full Screen in one instance but not another, is illogical, inconsistent, and a productivity hindrance that should be fixed.
Ideally, Adobe could give us a separate, Full Screen capable window for displaying Camera Angles. This way users could display their Camera Angles on one monitor, and their Program Monitor on a second monitor, all in Full Screen mode, without the visual polution of a windowed interface whenever that interface does not contribute to the editing task at hand! Here is my thread regarding that request: Help Improve Premiere! FR: Separate, maximizable Multi-camera view. However, should Adobe be unable or unwilling to provide us with the suggested interface that would provide maximum customizability/flexibility, at the very least having the option to view our Program Monitor in Full screen mode when viewing Camera Angles would be useful.

The iSight is either 640x480 (older MBPs) or 1280x1024 (newer MBPs). Displaying it 'full screen' especially in an older MBP (which is what you have if you're posting in the correct forum) would result in a horribly pixelated image, not 'high resolution'. The apps that show the iSight feed are showing it at its native resolution, and that's a limitation of the hardware. If you need higher resolution, you can attach a higher resolution video camera (for example, my Panasonic DV camcorder connects via FireWire and can be used as a webcam).

Multi cam monitor not working

With no change whatsoever, except for the passage of time -- two days-- the multi camera display suddenly shows only the selected camera on the right.
Help, please.

Mark
Thank you for your reply and interest. Indeed I will send all you request, and I hope some answer can be found. I am getting desperate.
I am not the only one with this problem; see one with CS6,and one on Creative Cow (who gave up). Also, this effect is occurring in projects that were created weeks ago, had worked fine, have not been accessed until today, and there it is!
I am using premiere 7.2.2 and 2014. Same problem on both. Here is a screen shot of how it should be:
and here is one of what happens...
Please, please help.

Multi Camera Editing with Matrox CODEC ( VS4 ) Card

Hello All.
Setup
I am recording 4 inputs from the Matrox VS4 via Wirecast 4.2 and also tried 5.0
- 1080i @ 100Mbps
- All the video footage play perfectly with no problems what so ever
- I Have installed the Matrox VFW Software Codecs of a system which DOES NOT have the VS4 card
- I can edit 1 video with NO PROBLEM.
Problem
- Using Adobe Premiere 7.1 CC with multi camera editing, the footage is jittery after a few seconds.
- Using Adobe Premiere CS 6.0 with multi camera editing, the footage is jittery after a few seconds.
- I have tried with 2 cameras up to 4 cameras and I get the same problem.#
Other Test
- I have tried 12 x videos which are MP4 in multi camera editing with NO PROBLEMS!!!
- I am using 4 x 128GB SSD in RAID 0 ( 1450 MB/s) - Through put is not an issue.
- 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)
Is this an issue that is present the Premier 7.1 CC or the CODEC or even both?
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@

Work flow? How to link multi-cam sequences for DVD output?

Pr cs4 (very new)
Still taking baby steps each day... please take my hand and help me!
Final output will be 2 DVD's (each DL) each about 2 hrs. Content are chamber music student groups in two recitals.
I have assets from two camera angles. I have successfully practiced on one of the groups performance (10 min.) following the steps illustrated in a multi-cam tutorial. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0234
This leaves me with a great multi-cam sequence for that group located in the Project Panel, exactly what I want.
Now, I want to know what is the best method (workflow?) to ultimately produce a DVD containing about 10 of these type performances (one after the other) with chapter markings for each group, titles etc.?
I have yet to use Encore and I'm guessing that is where I'll send the finished edit for DVD production, though I don't know at what step I jump there?
Do I try to create one very long multi cam sequence of all the content, then send to Encore? Or can I create seperate multi-cam sequences (each performance) then link them together, adding transitions and make the DVD? This would be my preference to keep things more manageable, especially with audio synching.
With my practice multi-cam sequence on the timeline, I tried to drag the same sequence from the Project Panel to the end of the timeline to simulate how this would work, but it does not add to the timeline as a clip would.
This is probably childs play for you pro's, but we were all baby's at one time...I just happen to still be one!
Thanks for your patience and advice,
Kenny

Yes I did...now toss me a cookie please.
I am trying to quickly get up to speed in Pr CS4 to get this project completed. In the process, I'm trying to learn and understand the interface and correct terminology so as to make my questions intelligible to a community that posses vastly greater understanding than myself.
Is there anyone who can help with my main question at hand? Namely, how to go about creating a full length sequence (in the timeline) made via the nesting of synchronized multi-camera clips within a new "multi-cam sequence"?
As I said, I have completed a small test sequence in this fashion, nesting clips in a new sequence then using multi-cam monitor to record cuts. Now I need to add about 10 more of these together in a completed sequence to then send to DVD production.
Is this intelligible?
Thanks, Kenny
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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:11:06 -0700
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Subject: Work flow? How to link multi-cam sequences for DVD output?
please take my hand and help me!
Well, at least you had the gumption to admit that up front.
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Help Improve Premiere! FR: Separate, maximizable Multi-camera view

Do you ever use Premiere CC's Multi-Camera tools? Then this FR is for you!
Please copy/paste as your own and send to https://www.adobe.com/go/wish/. Every voice counts!
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature: Separate windows for Multi-camera view and Program Monitor, with ability to tilde toggle to full screen either or both.
How would you like the feature to work?
The Multi-camera view and the Program Monitor should occupy separate, individually resizable and maximizable windows.
Why is this feature important to you?
The way these interface elements are currently squeezed into the same window is extremely limiting as far a viewing options. When the Multi-camera view is displayed, users can no longer do a full-screen preview of their edit, nor can they do a full screen preview of their multi-camera angles. This is unnecessarily restrictive. By putting the Multi-camera view in it's own window, and allowing it to be tilde maximized to full screen, users would have so much more flexibility for viewing their camera angles and their final edit while editing multi-camera sequences.

Hi Kevin,
I'm not sure how sticking the Multi-Camera View together with the Program Monitor does anything to clean up the interface. But supposing it does somehow, how can the person responsible for this change justify 'cleaning' the interface at the tremendous expense of functionally?
The current design simply isn't functional as already stated:
Full screen preview can't be used for the Program Monitor and/or the Camera Angles.
The Camera Angles can't be positioned and resized independently on their own monitor. Ditto for the Program Monitor.
How could the PP team miss this? Sorry to be brash, but it just baffles me how an entire team of adults can commit such an obvious gaffe. Perhaps they need to screen their ideas past real users, users like me that think outside the box and speak up when things don't work. For sure Adobe already does this, but it clearly isn't working, either because they're consulting the wrong people and/or they're getting the right feedback but aren't listening to it.
When I have to multicam edit on my laptop, I would LOVE to be able to display ONLY my camera angles in Full Screen. This would make each camera angle a usable size on a 17" laptop, and leave out any and all distracting interface elements (something helpful on any size monitor). After my initial edit is finished, I could then scale down my Multi-camera View and place it next to my Program Monitor above my Timeline to refine the edit. The current design makes this logical approach impossible.
I was REALLY hoping to see this fixed in 7.2. The problems with the current design are so painfully obvious to me, every single time I do multicamera editing. IMHO, it should also be obvious to anyone that trully understand video editing.
You wrote "this appeals to some and not to others.", but for the life of me, I can't see how this change could possible appeal to anyone (other than a sadist that gets pleasure out of seeing an editor's workflow getting screwed).

Multi-Camera EDL to Speedgrade

Hello,
I have a multi-camera project edited using nested 4 synced cameras. I have tried to export an EDL and import into Speedgrade but I get a FPS error (where the fps are correct) and also I can't relink any media associated with the multi-camera edit in Sg.
Is this possible? Or does the EDL and Speedgrade not know how to locate the footage used in the multi-camera edit.
I am currently trying to use the Send To Sg option but wish I didn't have to because of the massive .dpx file creation and storage necessary.
This is a 4CAM 3 hour music performance so keeping data amounts down is helpful. I'm only trying to send one song at a time but still, lots of time and data for each.
thanks for any input!!

You have what consolidate the multi camera edit in only one track, export to ProRes or Cineform (for safe storage), and export too an EDL (reverse asemble:http://blogs.adobe.com/movingcolors/2013/02/21/super-easy-edl-workflow -in-speedgrade/) . Better divide the whole in small parts, it is more reliable. It should works fine.

Multi Cam-2 different cams, 1 audio: Use many gigs on drive?

Hi
I did a number of interviews using 2 cameras (DSLR & HDV) and the Zoom H4n.
For each interview I'm thinking I'll create multi cam 'clips' from the 2 cams and 1 separate audio clip.
What happens? Will this involve much transcoding of the video? Will it use many gigs on the drive?
If so, would synchronizing the clips be a better way to go, and is there a method to switch between cameras that way?
Btw, I made my first and there seems to be beau-coup activity going on on my MBP and the drive. Hence these questions.
best
elmer

Thanks for the reply!
Yes, all my media are on an external drive. I see it created optimized media of the dslr clip. It appears optimizing of the 29-minute clip created a file of around 40gigs. I don't think I can use multi-cam on this project unless I proxy it.
How are optimized or proxy files named or designated so as to be different than regular files?
Any way to trash the optimized file? Or proxy files if so desired? Are proxy files 1/2 or 1/8 of original file?
Just curiously, can regular and proxy material coexist in the same project?

How to stabilize parts of a multi-cam sequence ?

I want to stabilize parts of a multi-cam-sequence. So I right-klick the clip to send it to Aftereffects. But this will end up in sending the whole multi-clip (two povs, 30 minutes of length).
How can I extract parts of the multi-cam-sequence I want to have stabilized?

Have you cut the clip each side before sending it?
You could try making a subclip..... though I haven't tried it so I don't know for sure that would work - it's worth trying through.
An alternative is to render the part of the clip to a file, stabilize that then use the replace footage to replace the footage on the multicam sequence. This is more hassle, but at least you have an actual file that is stable rather than relying on dymanic linking (which has failed me a couple of times).

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.

'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.

A Better Way to do Multi-Camera

I am able to do multi-camera edits, synchonization and playback but I suspect I am doing it inefficiently. All of the tutorials I've seen start with only the clips that will participate in the multi-cam ALONE in a sequence. And I know all the steps from there. But what I don't know is how to efficiently proceed if there are may clips in a sequence and I only want to do multi-cam on one stack of clips in the sequence. For instance, let's say that I have 10 clips on the timeline. All are on video and audio tracks 1. But the 6th clip also has multi-cam clips on video and audio tracks 2-4. What I currently do is
1. copy these clips (only the clips located in the 6th spot tracks 1-4 on the timeline but not the entire sequence)
2. paste them to a new sequence (sequence #2)
3. create another new sequence (sequence #3)
4. drag sequence #2 into sequence #3)
I know all the multi-cam steps after this.
The question is: is this the most efficient way to do this when I'm starting with a sequence that has clips on them other than the ones that I want to participate in multi-cam. I'm creating 2 new sequences to accomplish this. Can it be done in only one new sequence?

I edit a lot of things the same way you are talking about when you have many clips on video 1 and then just a few where there are mulitple cameras.
If there are only 2 shots (Video 1 and Video 2) here is what I do.
1. Line up Video 2 over top of Video 1 in the proper place.
2. Right click on the clip in Video 2 and select "Unlink" (Unlinking will unlink the audio and video. You do this so that when you cut video 2 you do not also cut the audio)
3. Place the CTI so that it is on your Video 2 Clip and then double click on that clip. This will open the clip in your Source Monitor.
4. BEFORE moving the CTI, Right Click on the tab of your Program Monitor and select "Gang Source and Program".
5. Now turn off the eyeball on Video 2
6. When you scrub through the timeline you will see both your video in both the Program and Source monitors moving. Unfortuantely you cannot just play the video and watch both. You can play it and watch the Program monitor and when you stop the Source monitor will catch up.
7. Use the Cut tool to cut out spots of Video 2 so you can see Video 1.
8. One tip is that if you are going to cut the very first part of Video 2 the best thing to do is to get the CTI where you want Video 2 to start and then use your selection tool to just trim it to that spot. If you cut it and delete it you will loos your video in the source monitor. Not that big of a deal because all you have to do is Double Click on it again and re-select Gange Source and Program, but it saves you from having to mess with it.
If I have 3 or more video clips I just highlight them all and right click and select "Nest". That will make your new sequence for you with all your clips you selected. Just then do a normal Multi Cam edit.
Hope this helps some!
Phil

I am trying to determine the new project preset for multi-camera video shot as follows: 3 Canon camcorders, main shot is DV (tape) (720x480), b-roll is DVD (mini-disk) (720x480), additional b-roll is AVCHD (1920x1080). Film is from a wedding, DV contain

I am trying to determine the new project preset for a multi-camera video shot as follows: 3 Canon camcorders,
Main shot is DV (tape) (720x480, 29fps) - ceremony and reception
b-roll is DVD (mini-disk) (720x480, 29fps) - bride preparations
additional b-roll is AVCHD (1920x1080, 29fps) - groom preparations and misc all day ceremony and reception.
Film is from a wedding, DV contains main footage so I assume it will need to be the base. I am planning to use the preset for DV-Widescreen. Is there a better option? I'm concerned about playback as the three appear to have different PAR. I'm using Premiere Elements 10 on W8.
Ultimately this will be burned for two formats - one for a DVD that can be watched on a widescreen TV, second for a short clip trailer to go on vimeo.
(And no I won't be doing this again for a wedding that I shoot.)

VDRAVES
Please review since I am not sure how you obtained Video 3 tall when you scaled Video 3 with Constrain Proportions in effect.
Before
After
It becomes a zoomed in effect to get rid of the black borders. But, there is no tall and thin involved anywhere.
And, after the Scale increase, you can always click on the screen and move the image around a bit
(without overdoing it to get black borders again).
After and an adjust
Please let us know if you are OK with the information above.
Thank you.
ATR

`~`* Multi-Cam = DSLR sending me to LOONEY BIN!!

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