Not seeing both cameras in Multi Camera View

[peternelson]

I know there have been a zillion questions on this topic but I didn't understand the answers so here we go again...

( Premiere Pro 2015.2 release, CC version 9.2 )

I have a Multicam sequence with two video tracks and an audio track created with Create Multi Camera Source Sequence.  I've toggled Multi Camera View on but one of the views remains black.

Each video track can independently be displayed in the right-hand viewer, say by disabling the other one with the little "eye" icon - toggle track output, but my understanding was that I should be able to see both cameras at the same time.

Screen shot...

I've seen people say it has something to do with "targeting" but I don't really understand what that means.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

[Carlos Ziade]

you have to drop your multicam source sequence onto the timeline and not open it in the timeline, check the video :

multicam on Vimeo

[peternelson]

you have to drop your multicam source sequence onto the timeline and not open it in the timeline

It won't let me -  it puts up a message saying "No content in sequence In/Out range".     What does that message mean?    (related question:  is there a official list of Adobe error messages from their products?  I often see error messages in Premiere Pro and Photoshop that I can't find in the "official" documentation)

I looked at the linked video but I couldn't make heads or tails out of it -  it has no audio.

[Carlos Ziade]

Create and edit a multi-camera sequence in Premiere Pro

there is a video at the end of this link, watch it

[peternelson]

there is a video at the end of this link, watch it

That video is ancient and is based on Premiere CS6 and the dialog boxes don't look anything like the ones in CC.  And he seems to be manually setting in and out points using a hand clap or clapboard, which don't apply to my case (a live music concert), so I'm letting Premiere Pro synchronize automatically using the audio track (I selected the Audio radiobutton in the Create Multicamera Source Sequence dialog).  And he doesn't seem to have any trouble dragging stuff to the timeline.  So I'm not sure what you see in that video that applies to my question.

[Carlos Ziade]

can i get teamviewer access to your pc ? i can help you and show you how

right on your workflow, that would save us lot of time trying to explain

what might not work for your case, dunno really how your project is structured

[peternelson]

Thank you for your offer but I'd rather not - If you showed me a set of steps that worked then I would just learn a recipe but I wouldn't understand the underlying principles or theory.   

I did some investigation and started a new project and managed to drop a multicam sequence onto the timeline and get my multicamera view but it produced a completely different timeline from what I show in the image above and I don't really understand that.    I started a new thread for that question Difference between dropping and opening in a Timeline

I still haven't figured out how Adobe documents stuff.   For example the workflow section of their "User Guide" only seems to list 6 topics and none of them are for multicamera sequences . . .

... and the link you sent me seemed had a "Lynda" tutorial for an older version of the product.   I'm paying a hefty monthly subscription fee to get Premiere Pro and I'm struggling to find thorough, up-to-date documentation on it.

[Stan Jones]

Sent link, but the multicam is in the "edit sequences and clips" section. I am not a fan of the Adobe help searches, but in this case, searching "multicam" gets this page as the second link. Searching the "correct" spelling in help ("multi-cam") has it in eighth position! Argh!

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

It has been a while since I did this. but I believe that the "Create Multi Camera Source Sequence" creates a "source" multicam sequence, and you must create a "target" multicam sequence. In the project panel, right click the (source) multicam sequence you created and pick "New Sequence From Clip."

Did you do that?

You must also enable multicam in the program monitor.

I can't tell from your screen shot. Is that the program monitor or the source monitor?

Edit: Here is help (2018) for multicam:

Create and edit a multi-camera sequence in Premiere Pro

[peternelson]

Yes, that seems to be it. Thanks!  Now I have a new problem (in multi-camera view I can select different angles but no cuts are made and selected angle has a yellow border, not a red one) but I'll create a new thread on it.