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August 26, 2024
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View camera labels in multicam sequences.

  • August 26, 2024
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I've been a Senior Editor for 24 years now. My specialty is editing multicam footage. When I've only got 10 cameras, it's okay. But more often than not, I get between 20 and 40 different sources, because most of the time, I'm called in to edit major shows. I come from the AVID world (where we see labels in multicam, as shown in the image below).

I'm more often asked to do my projects in Premiere these days. Not being able to see the labels on my timeline is really annoying. I need to find my bearings quickly. For a number of reasons, such as observing whether I'm using a source too often or fixing the same problem on a source every time I edit, it's crucial that I can see the labels directly on the timeline. It's a no brainer!

Thank you for considering my request and to the other editors, share, vote, make this request a reality!!!!

 

Martin Julien

 

19 replies

Known Participant
November 23, 2024

+1 upvote.

 

This has been requested before - maybe didn't have enough up votes to make it through the User voice purge. 

 

It's standard behaviour on Avid - source camera labels (clip colours) are always shown in timeline, rather than the multicam clip label (colour).

 

And it's useful for 2-3 cam shows too.

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I've been a Senior Editor for 24 years now. My specialty is editing multicam footage. When I've only got 10 cameras, it's okay. But more often than not, I get between 20 and 40 different sources, because most of the time, I'm called in to edit major shows. I come from the AVID world (where we see labels in multicam, as shown in the image below).

I'm more often asked to do my projects in Premiere these days. Not being able to see the labels on my timeline is really annoying. I need to find my bearings quickly. For a number of reasons, such as observing whether I'm using a source too often or fixing the same problem on a source every time I edit, it's crucial that I can see the labels directly on the timeline. It's a no brainer!

Thank you for considering my request and to the other editors, share, vote, make this request a reality!!!!

 

Martin Julien

 


By @Martin Julien

 

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2024

And you do have an Adobe Staff member @jamieclarke already declare it's a 'good request', maybe stay in touch with him.

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2024

I'm just a user like you - who has some time to come here and comment regularly.

Participating Frequently
August 27, 2024

@MyerPj. I see you're a community expert. Could you use your status to spread the idea to as many people as possible? That would certainly be a big boost!

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 26, 2024

Cool request Martin.

We should all upvote the request using the big number at the top of the thread next to the thread title.

 

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 26, 2024

I see, that is a good request!  I can see how viewing the source clip color would be very helpful within a multi camera clip.

Participating Frequently
August 26, 2024

As a matter of fact, yes. I know I can change the label by right-clicking on a clip. But in a Multicam nest, the whole timeline changes color. I'd like to see the source clip's label every time I cut, not the multicam's color. Exactly as you can see in the image I've attached to my request. This part of the sequence is not simplified; I'm still in a multicam sequence. I've attached a video of the behavior I'd like to see in Premiere Pro.

Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nitw72d46efdsnahii84d/Source-Labels-View.mp4?rlkey=qwvjhv1d17ka4r7d32mxeismg&dl=0

In case I didn't get it right, do you have more details?

 

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 26, 2024

Hi @Martin Julien - We have labels in the Premiere Pro Timeline In the wrench menu you can select "Show Video Names" and if you right click on your clip you can go to the menu option "Label" to change the color.  Is there something about the way Premiere displays the labels that you wish were different?