Swapping track priority in timelines

Hi
I have two views taken from inside a helicopter. One view is to the right, overlooking the pilot and the other view is looking out the front. The clips go for about five minutes. Towards the end of the clip, the helicopter enters an autorotation (powered off) descent and this is videoed ffrom the ground, creating a third clip. To complicat ematter somewhat, the two internal clips were taken upside down, so had to be rotated 180 degrees in the timeline. Now, I have the three clips in the timeline and they are all synchronised, from the take off until the landing. On my first edit I split the screen using the crop tools so that you could see all three clips inthe final edit. That was pretty good, however I now want to simply alternate the clips every two or three seconds. i.e. View from the front for two seconds, view of the pilot for two seconds etc. This is proving very difficult, expecially with the original clips being upside down. Now, with three clips in the timeline, the top clip gets priority and you can't see the middle or lower clip. The problem with taking portions of clips from the events section is that (a) they are upside down and (b) it is very hard to cynchronise them. Is there a quick way to give priority to selected parts of clips?
thanks
Geoff

Why don't you assemble the angles in the multicam clip function? You can rotate the clips you need there. Lay down the multicam clip in the timeline and cut between the angles. Even if you don't have good audio sync points you can probably pretty easily align the angles in the angle editor based on what's happening in the shots.

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