Add fill-frame or Fit-to-frame option for multi-camera view

[J_Boy]

When multi-camera view is enabled for editing:

- UHD footage,

- using UHD multi-camera source sequence,

- in a 1080 timeline

The Program monitor shows the individual cameras zoomed and cropped, like viewing an UHD clip in a 1080 timeline without scaling to fit or fill frame. IE the multi-camera view does not carry over the effects settings of the multi-camera clip, so even if the multi-camera clip is scaled 50% to fit the 1080 frame the multi-camera view shows a scaled and croped view of the individual angles.

Idea:

add a setting that forces the multi-camera view to fill-frame or Fit-to-frame for individual camera sources

OR

have the mult-cam view apply to the position and scaling attributes for the multi-cam clip to individual camera sources

[MyerPj]

I believe it just shows what the actual frame is going to look like. So, if you have 100% scaling in the source sequence, that is what you will get when you click that camera.

With the advances made in PP, the new Properties panel comes to help you. You can select all your clips in the source sequence and using the properties panel, scale them all to 50%, then they will look right in the viewer and when they get put on the timeline, and for those clips you want to scale, you would of course just do it in the timeline. 

PS I think even in the right-click works with all the clips selected, you can Fit to Frame or Fill Frame to scale them. I'll have to test when I'm on my computer.

[J_Boy]

Hi Myer, thanks for weighing in, but I think you are missing the root of the issue here. The properties panel is great, and indeed it is easy to scale many clips at once. The problem is the way the multi-cam view displays the individual camera/angles whent the multi-cam source sequences is UHD and the timeline is 1080. Check out the screenshot I attached to see the difference between what the multicam-view shows for Camera 1 and what you actually see in the timeline. In this case the multicam clip is scaled down to 50% to fit the timeline, but the multicam view shows the individual angles as if they are scaled 100%.

[MyerPj]

I think I understand, let if I don't. I just did it now for you:

• Make the Multicam Source sequence - it's UHD (from the clips or the first clip)
• Right-click that in the Project and New Sequence From Clip
• Change that sequence to 1080p
• Open the multicam view, the UHD clip with be Big in the display (1080p clips in the source sequence are 100% looking good)
• Right-click the Source Sequence in the project and Open in Timeline (Or I press ctrl-shift-f)
• Select all the UHD clips and in the properties panel set the scale to 50%
• Back to the 1080p editing sequence, the UHD camera(s) look good and get cut in at 50%

UHD Source sequence with 1080p editing sequence

[J_Boy]

Thanks again Myer. That is a work around I had not thought of. Another approach that gives the same results is creating the multi-cam source sequence as a 1080 timeline to match the editing timeline and scaling the source clips to 50% within the multi-cam source sequence. That way there is no size mismatch between the editing timeline and the multi-cam. The downside to both methods is that you no longer get to adjust the scale for the multicam clip in a way that reflects the actual size of the underlying source clips. IE even though you are seeing the source clip at 50% its original size, the properties for the multicam clip is showing 100%. So if I want to push-in for a tighter angle, I might go up to 150% - which results in effective scaling of the underlying clip to 75%. I find this annoying, and potentially confusing when there are both 1080 and UHD sources in a project. I like to know when I'm actually at 100% so I know if I have extra resolution to work with.

In any case, I can handle work-arounds, but I'm hoping for a fix from adobe as this seem to me like a problem in the way the multi-cam view displays mismatched frame sizes. To me it seems obvious that they should appear in the multicam view the same way they would appear in the timeline. Maybe I'm the only one.