Flattening a sequence in multi-cam necessary?

[taxbulldog]

I am interested in learning more about multi-cam.

I’ve learned to make multi cam clips and to edit them. I get a clip with an icon that has equal bars in it.

After I did the multi cam camera selections I get a file in Assets with the same name, but it shows an icon of varied bars.

I have seen some people refer to flattening the sequence once done with selecting your camera angles. I’ve not done that.

I drag that into my main timeline and can edit blank space out as I need to.  I just cannot change the camera selections.

I am able to export videos to YouTube that look as I want them to.

Should I be flattening the multi cam clip/sequence?

Thanks! Gary

[R Neil Haugen]

Flattening a multicam is more about making it easier to lay on say b-roll, titles & graphics, do color-correction, that sort of thing. If it's not an issue for you, well ... is it an issue? 

Neil

[taxbulldog]

Thank you!

I do some simple titles as overlays(?). Just to put some text info in a clip.I don't do anything fancy or special effects. Just doing tutorials and how to's. I would eventually like to learn to incorporate some Power Point slides. But, that's another topic.

Thank you!  Gary

[excited_Genie16B8]

You only need to do this if you're sending your project out to a professional colorist or sound mixer.  There is no need to flatten if you're doing all the work in PP.