Need help combining clips so I can create a Multicam sequence (I think?).

[psylighter]

I was given footage from a RED Camera and it broke the takes into multiple clips. I've never made a Multicam sequence before, but it looks like you have to have the full clip as one entity to function as one of the cameras. I think I could create a sequence where I put the clips together and then export them as one file then import that into the project, but I don't have 2 hours to wait for each of the takes before I even start editing, my boss needs this soon. There must be a smarter way to do this. Can anyone help me?

For further info, I'm editing a talk show and I need to be able to switch between shots quickly and easily, and I am assuming the Multicam sequence is the most efficient way to do that. I am currently in film school, but my new boss is having me use premiere and I've never used it before, nor have I had to edit with proxies or try a Multicam sequence before, but I assume editing the usual way I have my many short films would be inefficient for this purpose. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm using a Mac mini, macOS Sierra, Version 12.1.0 Build 186, Processor: 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 Memory: 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 Graphics: Intel Iris 1536 MB. The clips I'm trying to combine are .R3D, but I have to edit it with 2 other cameras that used MP4 and MXF.

[R Neil Haugen]

That computer is going to be a bit ... challenged ... by that media/project.

You don't combine clips first, that's done in the Multicam process. If you have clips that are continuous but broken into segments, especially if you have separate audio files, PrPro is very good about connecting them back into one within the Multicam process, and it is actually much better in most respects than "Merge clips".

You can even have a bin (the virtual folders of the PrPro project panel) full of segmented clips, select all, and tell PrPro to create multicams, and it will create a different sequence for each clip/audio combination.

Neil

[excited_Genie16B8]

Manual Multi-Camera Method

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Hi Psylighter,

Check out this video tutorial:

Thanks,
Kevin