Stabilizing multicam footage

I work with a lot of long-form footage (hour long single clips) and have tried applying analysis and stabilization to the multiclips I've made out of them in the timeline. Unfortunately, it seems that the only way to stabilize footage in a multiclip is by breaking it apart within the angle viewer. While this is still faster than round-tripping with motion, does anybody know if there's a way to apply stabilization to multiclips from within the timeline?

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It is astounding how after all these years, the CS products STILL have different UIs and UXs.  Even the way the user accesses basic functions for layers (rename, duplicate, etc.) are not consistent from one app to the next.
So please hold the comments about the UI, other than "We realize we have completely failed, and our different product groups do not care at all about a unified experience across the suite, and each just want to do their own thing.  And nobody in Adobe was willing to beat our groups up to force them to have some consistency.  That is priority #1 for our next release."

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