Add new camera midway through multicam editing

[quakeup]

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)

[Trevor_Asq]

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]

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?

[Warren Heaton]

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]

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.

[Warren Heaton]

Incorporating the 4th camera into the multi-cam track is what I described.

What you're calling "multi-cam track" is the multi-camera source Sequence.

[quakeup]

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

[Warren Heaton · Accepted solution]

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.

[quakeup]

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.

[Stefan26225810jexg]

This no longer seems to work, as the option is not showing

  ---  ....Go the the Mulitcam Sequence, right-click and choose "Open in Timeline" ---

I also try to add a new camera to an existing (!) multicam sequence. It would be great to learn how this could be accomplished. 

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @Stefan26225810jexg,

Thanks for the message. I welcome you to the forum. I have tried the process and it seems to be working right. Are you right-clicking on the sequence icon in the Project panel? That's how I got it working. Try it out and report back.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Stefan26225810jexg]

Thank you, Kevin! The German translation of the interface was a bit misleading here, but that worked. An additional menu item with "Edit Multicam" might be of help to find it faster.

May I ask another question related to this Multicam Topic?

I have edited tons of footage with a single camera, Cam 1

Now, material of a second and third camera are available: cam 2 and cam 3

Do you know a way, how to synch these additional cams with the already existing edit of cam 1?

I created a multicam sequence of cam 1, 2, 3. In an ideal world, I would simply replace footage cam 1 with the new multicam sequence. But there is no option available. I can only replace footage with another footage from my drive, and not with a (multicam) sequence.

Also, trying to drag the multicam Sequence on the respective clip in a sequence I'd like to replace, while pressing the "alt" button does replace it, but does not keep the edits. It always just drops in the first seconds of the sequence at each edit. And it would be extremely inefficient as well: I would need to find the clips inside of a timeline mixed with a lot of other material. 

Thank you so much for any help!

[Stefan26225810jexg]

May I ask another question related to this Multicam Topic?

I have edited tons of footage with a single camera, Cam 1

Now, material of a second and third camera are available: cam 2 and cam 3

Do you know a way, how to synch these additional cams with the already existing edit of cam 1?

I created a multicam sequence of cam 1, 2, 3.

Now, In an ideal world, I would simply replace footage cam 1 with the new multicam sequence. But there seems to be no option available. I can only replace footage with another footage from my drive, and not with a (multicam) sequence.

Also, trying to drag the multicam Sequence on the respective clip in a sequence I'd like to replace, while pressing the "alt" button does replace it, is extremely inefficient: I need to find the clips inside of a timeline mixed with a lot of other material. Replace footag clip with a  sequence (multicam or regular) would be the solution

Thank you so much for any help!

By @Stefan26225810jexg