Revert to Original source from multicam

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Hi there

I am running the latest PP and I can't seem to "open in timeline".

The clips have also lost their saturation.

Please advise.

Thanks a ton

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Not much information to go on.

First, your OS/hardware, and the media involved ... SDR/HDR, what? This is all necessary.

Ok ... you have video clips in the project panel ... made by what? Screen capture, video camera, what? ... and you are trying to create a sequence? Or open an already created sequence?

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Thanks a ton for your reply, Neil.

I'm running a two cam interview (pro res LT proxies on a prores LT) timeline. an assistant editor has made a multicam sequence which A: I'd prefer not to work with and B: For some reason the satutaration has dropped to zero.

I'd like to revert back to a 2 cam working sequence or at very least return the clips to the Slog colour.

There used to be an option to "open in timeline", however I can't find it if I right click on the Multicam sequence.

They were fine colourwise 2 days ago.

I've tried:

Deleting cache and reseting Premiere.

Reverting to an earlier update.

Resetting machine.

Copy pasting to another project with a different sequence settings.

I'm running Os Ventura on a 16 g M1 Macbook pro.

Hope you can help, so I don't have to do everything manually.

Thanks again

Matthew

Report · Aug 30, 2023

I am wondering if there's something Mac-ish going on here ... and I'm total PC.

So ... @Kevin-Monahan and @Warren Heaton ... you guys got ideas?

Report · Aug 30, 2023

OK cool.

Thanks for your help anyway

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Some thoughts:

***I'm running a two cam interview (pro res LT proxies on a prores LT) timeline.

Sometimes a basic color correction gets rendered into Proxy files. If a basic color correction is rendered into the Proxy (also called "baked in"), then proxies would need to be created again without the color correction.

***an assistant editor has made a multicam sequence which A: I'd prefer not to work with and B: For some reason, the situation has dropped to zero.
Do the clips appear in black and white?

***I'd like to revert back to a 2 cam working sequence or at very least return the clips to the Slog colour.

Check that no color correction (namely Lumetri Color) is applied to the Full Resolution clips.
Check that display color management is set correctly.
Tone mapping requires specific source formats. Is the source from an iPhone or is it HLG media?

***There used to be an option to "open in timeline", however I can't find it if I right click on the Multicam sequence.

Review the multi-cam editing workflow. The process uses a Multi-camera Source Sequence and a Multi-camera Target Sequence.
"Open in Timeline" is the default behavior for opening a Sequence. It should appear just above "Set Poster Frame" toward the bottom of the pop-up menu when we right-click a Sequence in the Project tab or Bin tab. It's also what should happen if we double-click a Sequence in the Project tab or Bin tab.
An alternative to using the multi-cam editing workflow is to stringout all of Camera A clips into Sequence A and all of Camera B clips into Sequence B; open Sequence A; and then use "Open in Source" for Sequence B with Gang Sync enabled/disable as needed to overwrite Sequence B into Sequence A.
Another alternative to using the multi-cam editing workflow is to superimpose the Camera B clips over the Camera A

***They were fine colourwise 2 days ago.

It's hard to know what, if anything might have changed.

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Thanks for the detailed post, Warren!

Report · Aug 30, 2023

Thank you, Warren.

I've had to work around by duplicating the mulitcam on an above layer, flattening the multicam, which when I noticed a Lumetri effect was applied to A cam, removed that and colour is back to normal. However this effect did not appear in the multicam clips. I'm going to have to toggle the camera to B if I need to use that (on the below Multicam layer) and flatten again. Just not something I wished to do on an hour long doccumentry.

Appreciate the help. Thank you!