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Dave_DIR
Inspiring
December 17, 2024
Question

Something missing in multicam edit setup

  • December 17, 2024
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I used to edit gaming podcasts using multicam, and am trying to do it again and failing because there is something I'm not doing right to set it up. Currently I cannot get the Multi-Camera Viewer to show all of the cameras so I can click each one to have it show in the video (the multicam editing). 

 

We record faces with phones, and screens with OBS. This is my process, please let me know what is missing:

 

1) Handbrake all videos to non variable compression etc

2) Create proxies of all videos

3) Select all video files and 'Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence...'

4) (after complete) 'Open in Timeline'

5) I then arrange the faces over their respective screen vids and Nest the two videos together.  We also have two 'room' videos.

6) I select the 'Toggle Multi-Camera View' in the viewer

7) I check the wrench and it is set to 'Show Multic-Camera Preview Monitor'

 

... and from there I'm stuck. If I:

 

1) select all of the videos in the Timeline (3 nested face/screen videos and 2 room videos)

2) right click, Multi-Camera/Enable

 

- only the 3 Nested videos get a [MC] beside their names (not the room vids)

- the Multi-Camera View only shows the V1 Nested video (face/screen nest)

- each of the V1 Nested videos (face and screen) has its own multicam square, and there is one black square.

- I can click on those while video is playing and it chops up the V1 Nested video.

 

I am doing something wrong where it doesn't show the 5 videos in the Multi-Camera View (3 Nested face/screen videos and 2 room videos). Just one of the Nested videos.

 

I have tried selecting the 5 videos (3 Nested and 2 Room) in the file/project panel and 'Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence', but when complete and I drag it onto the Timeline, it is the same thing.

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PaulMurphyCommunity Expert
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December 17, 2024

It sounds like you may be turning your individual nested videos (e.g., face and screen) into separate multicamera source sequences.

Instead, you should take the sequence that contains all of these nested sequences (your main multicam sequence) and drag that into a new sequence (editing sequence). Then, right-click on the multicam sequence in the timeline and choose Multi-Camera > Enable.

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Dave_DIRAuthor
Inspiring
December 17, 2024

Okay thank you.  So the updated process is:

 

after I create a multicam source sequence, I open it in the timeline and edit it, including nesting the videos etc. (as above)

 

This automatically upstates the original sequence still in the file selection area, which is like a container or a bin for the individual files 

 

Once editing the individual files of the multicam source sequence is complete (nesting etc), I drag the original multi-source sequence still in the file selection area over into the timeline. 

 

I tried that already (dragging it into the area where the files are already were in step 4), and the multicam editing didn't work, so I believe I have to make a new tab in the timeline area, a new "editing sequence" (a new clear timeline area to drag the multicam source into) 

 

I will research later how to make a new editing sequence 

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