How to switch audio in multi camera source sequence?

you've almost piqued my interest to come up with scenario to test using cs6 mulitcam.

Script: THE NEWLYWEDS

SC 1 INT/DAY (MORNING)

Medium tight single

               ROD

"Good morning, have you made breakfast ?"

CUT TO:

SC 1B INT/DAY (MORNING)

Medium tight single

               ROD IN BLONDE WIG

(falsetto) " No,  I thought YOU were going to make breakfast !"

CUT TO:

SC 1C INT/DAY (MORNING)

Medium tight single

               ROD

"That's YOUR job ! That's why we GOT MARRIED ! ( INSERT ) So you could make me breakfast ! "

INSERT : we see ROD IN BLONDE WIG RAISE EYEBROWS AND MAKE MOUTH A LETTER "O " ...

I have 2 cameras and can shoot this and use multicam and do the cut where the 'sound' carries on during the reaction shot ( insert of raised eyebrows and letter O mouth ).

and see if it works.

hmmmm…

maybe do the multicam thing and then make another audio level …  below your multicam one... and unlink and drag down the audio from the shot you want.. and THEN drag it out or shrink it down to the time you want … ???  When done disable the audio 1 from multicam and use audio 2 ???  Beats me.

hehe.. good luck !

an example:

watch episodic TV shot with digital film cameras. Or a movie ( projection that got converted to TV stuff ).  There are times when a camera rolls just to get 'reaction shot' of 2 people talking... we hear person 1 ( on camera) talking to person 2...and while that sound continues ( person 1 talking) we get quick cut to person 2 facial expression ( reaction) to what person 1 is saying...

Those are J and L cuts. The camera rolls purposefully to GET those reaction shots etc, and sometimes they are done as pickup shots ( to save time ).  It's hard to explain.

You can't DO that with multicam cause it was never intended to be a live event to begin with … and the story being told is NOT a live event being broadcast live.

I'm an idiot so take what I say with a grain of salt.

me neither. sorry. I hate multicam and I only used in ONCE in a tutorial for CS4. There was latency ( delay) so that when I wanted something to happen (switch to other camera) on an exact frame, it was delayed a few frames … which drove me nuts.

If I was stuck on a live venue with lots of cameras, like a live event being broadcast live, I'd be directing via many monitors and video switcher and all that stuff, and I would have NO CHOICE but to do what muliticam is simulating. To me that's just stupid.

hehe... but it's a lot more time and work to scrub through stuff and make choices and make J and L cuts, etc. Most people don't want to deal with it and are not that concerned. Whatever.  Maybe do your multicam to get general feeling for what is happening and where you want to cut... and then make another project using vid and audio levels... and use the mulitcam as a guide, while editing a final with J and L cuts ??  I don't know. I just don't use multicam.

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