Multi-Cam Enabled

Hi,
I just right clicked a nested sequenced and noticing for the first time a menu choice that says "multi-camera"
-enabled
Camera 1
Camera 2
etc etc
what is this - can anyone shoot me a link to a tutorial or esplain it to me..?

fnub wrote:
The technique that you're describing is different to the one I use for multi-camera edits. I have a background in audio production so my immediate assumption to edit with multi cams was to bring each camera to it's own track and spend a few minutes lining them up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWKcvkPx874
I left that part out -- sorry. Part of bringing your footage into a source sequence (video 1, video 2, etc.) is that you then have to sync (line up) the various camera feeds. PPro offers several ways to do this. More than I want to try to describe in a thread like this, and it is explained well enough in the help system (with links to on-line tutorials that show you exactly how to do it).
Adobe has also added Prelude to the mix -- as a more full featured way to ingest footage from multiple cameras and sysc that footage. It can act as a front end to PPro. Should make multi-camera work easier and more intuitive, but I've not used it yet.
fnub wrote:
It seems that the only difference between what you and I are doing is the nesting - is that right?
Probably. You can't run the multi-camera editor unless you have a place to put the results. Which is why you have to have the nested sequence.

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Im just now delving into multi-camming in Premiere, and, I can get it to work perfectly, to a point.
I will describe, briefly, and quick, because I am good up to the point that I experience my problem.
I create my first sequence, import three video clips, kill the audio on clips 2, and 3, set my clip markers, synchronize based on numbered markers, then create another sequence, with only 1 video, and 1 audio track, to nest the first sequence in.
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Believe it or not, I ended up solving this mystery myself.
And the explanation is quite long, and tediously detailed, but, I’ll try to explain while keeping it as brief, and concise as possible.
The problem actually lies in the setting up, track wise, of your initial sequence.
Ill first explain the correct way, and then I’ll explain why my way did not work.
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Adobe Bug Report /Feature Request form ...
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