Suggestion: Auto detect camera angles with auto edit detection

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September 26, 2023
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Hey everyone,

I often edit live streams that have multiple cameras baked into one stream that I then have to edit into single presentations. I usually use auto edit detection to seperate the different cameras onto different video tracks so I will have an easier workflow when it comes to color correction.

But of course seperating each camera after each cut individually takes up some time as well.

I'd love if the auto edit detect function would also learn to understand the different camera angles and lift each angle to a seperate video track automatically.

Let me know if anyone else has a better solution or what you think about this idea.

Mike

Feature request

M

Michael Grenadier

Legend

The OP talked about moving each camera to it's own video track. Which is the way I work, but I'm usually dealing with multicamera sources so it's easy to do a find for the clip name in the timeline and then it's really easy to move each camera to it's own track. This allows you to quickly select all the clips from each camera which is crucial if you decide you want to go back and tweak all the intances of a specific camera. And if you enable "selection follows playhead head" just jumping to the different angles allows you to quickly compare and adjust the corrections. Another advantage of isolating each camera is if you decide to move your color correction to Davinci Resolve, exporting each video track allows you to work in Resolve efficiently, and although not sure it's an enormous issue anymore, this can be necessary if you're working with spanned clips which are ploblematic in the xml transfer workflow from Premiere to Resolve.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

For doing the color corrections, once you've separated the clips out somehow ... you can say select one group, apply X color label to it, that's one handy organizational tool. Then selecting all X label means you can apply effects to the entire group.

And I would put two separate cam's next together on a sequence, correct Cam 1 first, WB/black & white points/general tonal contrast/ sat, and including any Hue v Hue work to get hues closer to proper.

Go to the other clip, Cam 2, rinse & repeat plus do a bit more to shotmatch the results of Cam 1.

Now copy Cam 1's Lumetri to all Cam 1 segments/clips, Cam 2 to all Cam 2 ... you're done.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

M

Michael Grenadier

Legend

Interesting idea. Not sure how easy this would be to program, but wdik? Just a heads up, if you're using blackmagic hardware/software like Atem, you can actually generate a resolve project (if I remember correctly) which will reflect your live edits. Been a couple of years since I was working with an Atem, so not sure if it's still a feature.