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Alternative workflow to using multi cam options

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January 19, 2017
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I currently have around 20 clips for a band music video. I wa planning on using multi cam to do an edit, but the more I think about it the more I think how difficult that will be. My concern is being able to choose on the fly between all 20 shots and pick the best bits.

Is is there another way people use For something with so many shots. Perhaps marking up good shots on each camera in source monitor and using that as a guide for an edit?

I am new to it so all asvice on the most organised and sensible sensible way to work with so many camera angles is helpful

thanks.

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Slambo239

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You can do a multi cam edit while the video is paused, but you just have to hold down the control button to select the camera now. We used to have a separate multicam monitor window that we could dock anywhere we want and we didn't have to lose half of our program screen, and we could just click on the camera without having to hold down any extra buttons. It was great! Adobe ruined, multicam editing. Huge step backwards in my opinion.

shooternz

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Lay down one video track which is the Master that you shot.

Mark where you need the cut(s)

Gang the Source Monitor (in synch ) to the marked sequence and see if you have the shots you need from the rest of your angles.

Work through all the angles this way.

You could also Create sub sequence of every angle (camera) and mark them up for highlights. (Selects). Use the Sub Sequence as a Clip in the Source Monitor and gang it.

Create Synch Marks on your Sources

Work to a plan and dont just cut random for the sake of squeezing in a shot. You dont need every shot to make the cutr..

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IrvsaxAuthor

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Thanks for these details. Thats an interesting way of doing it for sure.

I have never heard of 'gang' for the source monitor. I assume this means that where you are on the program monitor also gets displayed on the source monitor? How is this done?

Also, how do you mark 'selects' and why should you do this on a sub source and not the original?

Sorry for all the noob questions

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excited_Genie16B8

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I've never done this but one method I thought of is to place all 20 takes in a sequence, and go through them one at a time from the top down. Cut out the parts you know you won't use from the very top track, thus leaving only the parts you might use.

Once that's done, disable the very top track (eyeball in the track header) and do the same with the track below. Move on down in this fashion for every angle.

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IrvsaxAuthor

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Yeah, I was thinking something along those lines. To get rid of all the stuff you DONT want and then make an edit from the bits you do want.

I was thinking of watching through each source clip perhaps first and making markers for good shots? May end up with too many markers though?

Cheers

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IrvsaxAuthor

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For the classical music videos I make, I do something very similar. I put the sunk videos on, say, tracks 1 to 9, put black on track 10. Track 1 is always a locked off wide shot that can be used when all else fails. I then copy track 1 to 11 in its entirety, I go through track 2 and copy the good bits to 12, 3 to 13 etc. This will give me a checker board of shots each on its own track which makes colour correction easier. The clips are then fine tuned to make the edit work, being on separate tracks also lets you see how often you have used that camera angle. The advantage of copying the clips over is that tracks 1 to 9 still have the complete takes so it is easy to go back and find stuff.

This is one of mine showing where I have cut the tracks before copying.

Luckily someone else does the audio and gives me mixed track.

Thanks Richard.. that is really helpful to see the way you lay it out like that. I actually did do a video in a similar way last week, but it was a video over a track that was not relevant to the footage, so did not need to sync up, so was easier to just chop it about. With that it was also easier because i only used one section from each clip so i just used in and out points on the source monitor and dragged them over (dont know if that was best way but seemed to work).

I too will have a master audio track so can use that to sync them all to (I can actually use audio still as the playback for the shoot will be on the footage)

Would love to see one of your finished products!

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