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November 13, 2019
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Add new camera midway through multicam editing

  • November 13, 2019
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I'm midway through a multcam edit and now want to synchronize into the sequence footage from a fourth camera. Is there a way to autosynch this fourth camera into the sequence for continued multicam editing? It seems that the only way to add footage from the fourth camera is to manually synch & edit it as another clip on the timeline. I've tried adding new clip into the Processed Clips bin, but it does not automatically synch or show up in my camera profiles for this sequence.

Probably asking for too much, but wondered if there was an automated workflow for adding a new asset after autosynch has done its magic 🙂

Thanks - Colin

(Premiere Pro v14 on Windows10)

    Correct answer Warren Heaton

    Any way of getting the fourth camera into the "multi-camera source Sequence?"


    Go the the Mulitcam Sequence, right-click and choose "Open in Timeline", drag and drop your 4th camera to Video Track 4.  It will be added immediately.

     

     

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    Warren Heaton
    Community Expert
    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 14, 2019

    I'm not in front of Premiere Pro at the moment, but this should work:

    1. Open your multi-camera source sequence (right-click it in the Project tab and choose "Open in Timeline") and add the new, fourth camera to Video Track 4.
    2. Select the newly added clip in V4 and the clip that's in V1, then right click and choose Syncronize.
    3. Verify sync, nudging if needed.
    4. Continue to work in your multi-camera target sequence.

     

     

    -Warren

     

     

      quakeup
      quakeupAuthor
      Known Participant
      November 14, 2019

      Thanks, Warren. This is the workaround that I deployed, because I found no way of editing the fourth camera into the multicam sequence. As you can appreciate, editing two separate tracks (the multicam and the fourth camera) on the same timeline is not the most efficient workflow. It would be much faster (and enjoyable!) to incorporate the fourth camera into the multicam track instead of cutting/stitching two separate tracks into one final sequence.

      quakeup
      quakeupAuthor
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      November 15, 2019

      Go the the Mulitcam Sequence, right-click and choose "Open in Timeline", drag and drop your 4th camera to Video Track 4.  It will be added immediately.

       

       


      That's great. Thanks, Warren. A couple extra steps are necessary after adding the extra camera into it's own track. I needed to:

      1. Select all clips in the timeline, then right-click in the timeline. Select "Synchronize" to synchronize the new clip in track 4 with the other clips in the timeline. Premiere renders a perfect synchronized result.

      2. To collapse all the tracks together for continued multi-cam editing in the program monitor, I right-click on the multi-cam sequence in the projects window and select "New Sequence from clip." With this new multi-cam sequence in my timeline, I switch back to Multi-Camera view to give me all four cameras in the program monitor to continue editing.

      Thanks again for contributing your thoughts on this.

      T
      Trevor_Asq
      Legend
      November 13, 2019

      You need to edit the source multican sequence to have the 4th camera available in existing edits.

       

      Nothing to stop you syncing all the cameras again and copy/pasting into the original multicam source sequence. Live dangerously 

      quakeup
      quakeupAuthor
      Known Participant
      November 14, 2019

      Thanks, Trevor. I'd like to know how to do what you are suggesting: Edit the source multicam sequence to include the extra camera. How do you do this?

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