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June 3, 2023
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Multicam preview doesn't scale

  • June 3, 2023
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I've got a 3-camera shoot that I'm editing down/ I shot in UHD and am editing in HD, so I've got the opportunity to push in if needed. Working in Premiere CC'23. I used the multicam functionality to create multicam sequences from the raw footage, which worked fine. I dropped those onto a HD sequence for editing, and enabled the multicam view.

The Program output shows the UHD scaled 50% to HD to fit the screen, just like I'd hoped. But the multicam previews are showing the original shots at 100% on a HD screen, meaning they're cropping 3.4 of the image out around the edges. This makes the previews much less useful! For exampl,e trying to time a cut when a character walks into, or out of, frame isn't possible. I have to make a cut, then using the program view, use the roll tool to shift the edit to the proper moment because I can't see the edges of the frame in the preview.

I could edit in UHD, but that means I lose the ability to push in during editing, which was the whole point of shooting in UHD in the first place. 

How do I get the multicam preview images to scale?

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    Ali JaberCommunity Expert
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    June 3, 2023

    What I do is the following: I put my UHD multicam in an UHD sequence to do the first edit, after finishing set that sequence setting into FHD, select all clips, right click > set to frame size, and start animating camera motion if required.

    That may work for you too, but it depends on your own exact workflow.

    MyerPj
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    MyerPjCommunity Expert
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    June 3, 2023

    I haven't been working on multi-cam lately, but I believe the problem is with your source sequence. Open it in the timeline, and make sure it is an HD sequence, and the UHD clips should be set to 50% scale. I think that will do it. Right-click the source sequence in the project and 'Open in timeline'.

     

    When you go to edit, you right-click the source sequence again in the project and select 'new sequence from clip' rather than just "drop[ing] those onto a HD sequence"

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