Make a multicam sequence from cameras that made multiple clips of one event!

[atomictuna721]

Ha!  This is a hard one.  Help!

Here’s my challenge: I filmed a live theatrical play with 4 cameras. The sound marker is at the very beginning before the show begins. But each camera split the show footage into multiple sequencial clips. Yes, I couldn’t afford all the same cameras so they are different types of cameras.  Some cameras made 2 clips, others made 10 of the exact same event.

My goal is to make a multicam from the four angles so I can edit a video of the full play. I have tried lots of things and nothing seems to work. How do I make a multicam sequence from this?

Two other notes:

1. The files are HUGE so I want to use proxies then replace those when the final edit is done. 

2. For some reason the audio from camera A (which was piped in directly to the camera from microphones hanging over the stage) will not link with the video from that cam. It comes into the Timeline together but in my efforts to nest the sequential clips together, the sound never comes along for the ride.

Thank you!

MD

[eikonoklastes]

You don't need to nest your source clips in order to group them as one camera.

Put all your clips from each camera into their own tracks in one single Sequence, and sync them up.

In a new Sequence, place your prepared Sequence and right-click > Multi-camera > Enable. Each video track from that sequence will be treated as a separate camera.

If you want to use proxies in your source MC Sequence, then go ahead and do that. When you are ready to export, you can update your source sequence with the original clips and have your edited sequence update too.

Your source MC sequence might look something like this (but with a lot more clips per track I would imagine):

[atomictuna721]

Thank you so much.  I can't work on it till this weekend but I think between the three of you the answer is here!  I will post back as soon as I can try these methods.  Thank you! thank you!

[Trevor_Asq]

Set bin metadata display to show 'camera label'.

Enter a unique ID for the different angles (e.g. 1,2,3,4 if you've 4)

When creating multi-camera source sequence choose to sync by timecode, create single track per angle and group by camera label.

Right click resulting multi-camera sequence and 'open in timeline'

Adjust for any sync errors (much easier if timecode was free-running).

Creating proxies is a separate issue. You can have PPRO create & manage or do it manually. Best keep frame size & rate matching.

Multi-cam audio is powerful/tricky in PP. Difficult to advise without knowing number of source audio tracks.

If just two mono mics (e.g. Interviewer/interviewer) then easiest for multi-camera source sequence to be stereo with mono timeline tracks (to avoid -3dB attenuation from standard tracks).

if more than 2 mono sources then you may need to get into multichannel / adaptive tracks. Often easier to keep audio as normal clips & use multi-camera for video only.

Hope that is of some help

[atomictuna721]

Thank you so much.  I can't work on it till this weekend but I think between the three of you the answer is here!  I will post back as soon as I can try these methods.  Thank you! thank you!

[excited_Genie16B8 · Accepted solution]

Manual Multi-Camera Method

[atomictuna721]

Thank you so much.  I can't work on it till this weekend but I think between the three of you the answer is here!  I will post back as soon as I can try these methods.  Thank you! thank you!

[atomictuna721]

Thank you, Jim!  Your answer was the easiest to follow. Thank you for sending me that page on how to manually set up a multicam sequence!

[excited_Genie16B8]

You're welcome.