BUG REPORT: Inconsistent behavior in Multi-cam drag-and-drop

[jasondecker]

• Issue - Dragging-and-dropping multi-cams into a timeline behaves inconsistently depending on if its a single multi-cam clip or if you drag several at once.
• Adobe Premiere Pro version number: 24.2.1 (build 2)
• Operating system - Windows 11 Pro 10.0.22631 Build 22631
• System Info: CPU, GPU, RAM, HD:

  • CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

  • GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (Driver version: 31.0.15.5123)

  • RAM - 64 GB

  • Hard Drive - 1TB SSD

• Video format: Quicktimes from Canon 5D, 6D, & 7D
• Workflow details: Dragging a Multicam sequence into a standard timeline that already has other media in it.
• Steps to reproduce - (Very important!) See attached video. But basically:
  
  • Set toggle on timeline to Insert or overwrite sequences as individual clips.
  • Drag a single multi-cam into the timeline.
  • Drag several multi-cams into the timeline.
• Expected result - I would expect both instances to create a checkerboard of individual video and audio clips.
• Actual result -  If you drag in a single multi-cam, it arrives as a nested multicam clip (1V, 2A). If you drag several multi-cams in as a group, they all come in as checkerboarded video and audio.

[jstrawn]

Thak you so much for your efforts to post this here and for all the excellent details you included. This is a serious problem which needs to be fixed. The product team is working on that now. We'll share more info here when a fix makes it into a new Beta build that you'll be able to try.

[jasondecker]

@jstrawn I just discovered this other thread which addresses and fixes this issue. It looks like it wasn't a bug, just a change in functionality that wasn't conveyed to us users. As you can see in the thread, this caused more than a few of us a serious loss of productivity. Please convey to the powers that be that full documentation of ALL changes, not the just the headline-making new features, is necessary in release notes. Every toggle that is added or removed in every menu on every panel of Premiere is used by someone. Changes to them that aren't fully laid out in Release Notes really mess with our established workflows.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/unable-to-break-out-nested-layers-when-using-nest-a...