Multi camera in points not in sync

Ronald,

If I'm understanding you correctly, you have files that are created in 4GB chunks even though the camera was recording constantly. I know some cameras do that.

I take it you have a bin that has all the clips from a shoot in it. What happens if you select all, create multicam? This might work, though if it does ... it would put each starting point on a higher track. Which you'd need to clean up by moving things down after syncing.

One comment about trying a sync operation rather than selecting a bin and taking the "create multicam" option. After manually loading clips on the sequence ... Premiere will not sync if there are more than one clip on a track. So even though Cam B has four sections, and you think you should be able to drop sequentially all of Cam B on track 2 ... you can't. You would need every clip to be on its own track. So if Cam B has four sections ... they'll all need to be on four separte tracks. Yea, that's a pain.

But then ... select-all/syncronize should work. Clean up by dropping clips down, then "enable multicam".

Neil

Ronald,

That's why doing the entire thing from clips rather than from sequences worked. I missed in your original post that some of the things you were trying to 'add' were sequences not clips. You might be able to do that with a nested sequence, as Premiere typically creates nested sequences sort of like clips ... somewhat ... mostly.

Neil

Eljay ...

For some reason PPro doesn't seem to like the in points we mark in a sequence derived from a clip, wants them on the original clip. Problem: because they're only on the source monitor, if you want to sync on the audio track visually you need to mark rather than add an in point. Hope this helps someone...

Something we all have to learn and bear in mind ... what you do on a clip on a sequence, anything you do on a clip on a sequence, is stored as metadata for that clip on that sequence only.

Why? Because often parts of a clip will get used in very different ways. You don't want the work you've done on one use on one sequence messing up what you'd already done on another sequence with a different part of that clip.

The Program monitor is always tied to a sequence. The Source monitor is always (unless you direct otherwise) tied to ... source media, clips from a bin. Which by design don't have any effects applied to them.

Neil

I just had some issues with sync, where some footage wouldn't sync on audio so tried to use in points in created sequences. It seems PPro doesn't like to do that. I made it work in the following way: put CLIP MARKS where I want my in points (select video and add a marker puts it on the clip, not the sequence timeline). Open ORIGINAL FOOTAGE (only opens in source monitor) and add my in points THERE. Do with all clips you want to sync and it should work. For some reason PPro doesn't seem to like the in points we mark in a sequence derived from a clip, wants them on the original clip. Problem: because they're only on the source monitor, if you want to sync on the audio track visually you need to mark rather than add an in point. Hope this helps someone...

With cameras that start/stop/start during the show, it will put each instance on a different track. That part does requre going through and moving all from one camera to one track. Sigh.

Neil

Create the multi-cam in the bin rather than with media on a sequence. Select all the clips, right-click/multicam-create multicam. The audio of the first clip selected will normally be what is matched to for other files.

Neil