Is There a Way to Quickly Replace a Multicam Clip with The Original Clip?

Question

I am working on a 4-camera, multicam project at the moment. I've already gone through and chosen where I want to cut back and forth between the various camera angles. The only issue is that one of the cameras on the longest focal length was frequently a little shaky with some microjitters. I'm tossing a Warp Stablizer with 5% smooth motion and position only to those shots and it works well, but because it's a multicam clip it takes probably 10 times longer to analyze.

So, I'm wondering if there's an easy way to replace just that clip with the original camera angle. I was hoping you could just right-click it and say something like "replace with original" but the only solution I've really found is to render and replace, but that takes time as well and takes up more space on the hard drive.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

SK321 · Accepted Answer

I'm not sure I follow you. But I have found that if, after flattening the multicam clip, I double-click on it so that the original clip loads into the Source Monitor with the in and out points already matched to the clip, then drag that onto the layer above the flattened clip, then apply the warp stablizer, it goes very quickly. Then I just have to copy/paste the effects and any other adjustments I made to the original clip, which I can do while the warp stabilizer is analyzing. Not perfect, but still saves a ton of time.

SK321 · Answer

I figured it out. On a multicam clip, you can right-click>Multi-camera>Flatten and it will just replace the multicam clip with whatever angle you had chosen.

Edit: Well, for some reason it still takes forever to analyze the flattened clip. If I take the exact same clip from the bin and place it on the layer above the flattened one, it analyzes in a few seconds vs the flattened one taking multiple minutes. Not sure why this is happening but I'm going to keep experimenting.

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