Multi-cam with spanned video clips

[ClayUUID]

I have a four-hour, two-camera presentation to edit down. I've been given two folders of spanned MTS files, one from each camera, but none of the metadata. What's the best way to get a functioning multi-camera sequence out of these assets?

[brian704]

You should be able to open each camera file from the Media Browser in Premiere as a single clip - unless the cameras were started and stopped - that will be a problem.

Just go through the footage and place a marker at a sync point that is the same in both files. Then proceed as usual creating the multi-cam timeline using the markers

[excited_Genie16B8]

Get the full card from each camera.  If you can't, you're screwed.

[ClayUUID]

Thanks for the replies. There must be some universal rule that as soon as you ask for help on something, you find the answer yourself. Even though I didn't have the metadata, I was able to create a sequence for each camera by manually putting each clip in the correct order on the timeline, and amazingly, the multi-camera creator accepted this, syncing the two together perfectly.

My next question (I suppose technically I should start a new thread for this, but as long as we're all here...), has to do with still image overlays. The video is 16:9, but the presenter's slide deck is 4:3. So when I intercut a full-screen version of the slide being discussed, the video is still peeking out the sides. Is there any way to have the slides completely block the frame short of editing each slide image to be full screen or cutting out the background video when a slide is displayed?

[brian704]

You could put the slides in a 16x9 timeline of their own with black video on a lower track (or their logo as pillars - whatever). Then just nest that on a track above and cut it up to match the video. You would just have to make each slide last 30 or 40 seconds - you can do that from the preferences menu - I believe.