Complex Multi-Camera Workflow - Multi-segment Multi-Cameras

[markk16010194]

Hello All

The video cameras I'm working with break their recordings into 4 Gig files segments which reassemble seamlessly when I select "New Sequence from Clip"

I have successfully Synced the first segment from three cameras using Create Multi-Camera Source Sequence

The problem is that I can't seem to do both.

Pr doesn't appear to allow me to use the sequence created for each of the tracks with each other.

If I get all the cameras segments onto the time line you can not right click and Synchronize the three time lines

I have observed that you can take a single created  Sequence from clip and one and only one other camera and make a Multi-Camera Source.  It you try and take that and add the third camera to it with Create Multi-Camera Source, you end up with only two cameras.

I can get all the cameras synchronized with this procedure:

1. Take the first segment from all three cameras and put them on the time line
2. Right Click Synchronize
3. Add all the other segments for each camera onto the now synced first segments.

BUT I can't make this into a Multi-Camera so I can use the Multi-Camera viewing and editing

Let me restate the objective more visually:

     CamA-001, CamA-002, CamA-003 .....    into   Track V1

     CamB-001, CamB-002, CamB-003 .....    into   Track V2

     CamC-001, CamC-002, CamC-003 .....    into   Track V3

And have this be viewable and editable as a Multi-Camera

I hope I'm just missing something.   I find it hard to believe this can't be done.

  Mark

[Kevin-Monahan]

Still having this problem, Mark? Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin

[markk16010194]

Hi Kevin

Yes, still having the same problem.  How is it supposed to be done?

  Mark

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

Have you tried simply putting all the media in a bin, selecting everything and then having PrPro create the multi-cam? PrPro is pretty good at using multi-cam to "merge" spanned clips.

How about seeing if it will connect the spanned clips and set the multi-cam sequence from them?

Neil

[excited_Genie16B8]

Manual Multi-Camera Method

[markk16010194]

Neil:   Well, I hadn't tried to let Pr do it all at once and your suggestion worked out pretty well !  It does put the additional camera clips on different tracks but that it trivial to fix.    I had tried putting all the camera A together then camera B and then C but it wouldn't let me make a multi-cam out of any of these no matter how I tried to fool it.

Jim:  Thank you for the link to the manual method.  In particular I didn't know that I could

          4. In the timeline, right click on that newly nested sequence and choose Multi-Camera>Enable.

That information will come in handy.

Thank you both, Neil and Jim.

     Mark

[R Neil Haugen]

I thought it would work. Glad to hear it did. In fact, as Jarle Leirpoll's said in his awesome boom on PrPro, when working with spanned clips it's normally better to use multi-cam rather than merge clips. You have more options in editing after, among other things.

It is annoying that it puts the same camera on multiple tracks, though.

Neil