Source Window Multi-Cam Issue (Premiere 22.3.1 on iMac M1 8-core/8-core 16gb RAM)

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Hi all, 
 
New Premiere user here with years of professional Avid experience. Was very excited to take on a new project in Premiere and finally use it, but I've encountered a snag that's really hindering my workflow...
 
I'm experiencing an issue with multi-cam sequences where the source window will only show one of two cameras. I've read, I think, every other thread on multi-cam issues (I see that this is a common issue that dates back years on Premiere), and tried some of the fixes that seemingly worked on old versions - I've made sure V1 is selected on all the multicam sequences, multi-cam is enabled on all sequences, I've recreated the nested sequences, I even tried to blade an edit into the nested and multi-cam sequences which apparently helped some users on older versions, but nothing is working. 
 
The strange thing is that if I open these multi-cam sequences in the program window in multi-cam view, it shows both cameras. But only one in the source window. And when I change the camera in the program window, it toggles the camera in the source window upper-left quadrant. But it wont show both cameras simultaneously, and if I pull from the source into a new sequence, it only pulls down one camera. 
 
I read that Premiere has been especially buggy for some users on new M1 processors, but I decided to pull the trigger despite this because of the Adobe update and reading some positive reviews. I'm hoping that this isn't an unfixable bug, but in the couple days I've been acclimating, I've had a couple other random bugs (buggy "edit cameras" tool in program view multi-cam, snap-edit button just decided to stop working lol, etc...). So I'm starting to think maybe I need to return this iMac and get a 2021 intel refurbished. But hoping there might be some simple fix I'm overlooking! 
 
Thanks so much for any suggestions!!!

gerikp · Answer

I have a couple of questions to try and gain some clarity on your situation. 1. What steps are you taking to create your multicam? 2. What steps are you taking to put your multicam into your Source window?

Actually documenting your steps and expected outcomes might help us figure out what's happening.

But my first guess is that you are placing your two clips in a sequence and then nesting those clips and then pulling that nested clip from your Project Panel into your Source window. Just a guess. That was the only way I could get the same result you are getting. To see the mutlicam in the source window what works for me is if I select the two clips in my project panel and create the multicam there and then pull that multicam source sequence into my Source window. The other way was to put the two clips into a sequence and nest the clips. Then I put that nested clip into a new sequence. Drag that nested sequence from the timeline of the new sequence to the source window. Sorry if that was consfusing.

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