View camera labels in multicam sequences.

[Martin Julien]

I've been a Senior Editor for 24 years now. My specialty is editing multicam footage. When I've only got 10 cameras, it's okay. But more often than not, I get between 20 and 40 different sources, because most of the time, I'm called in to edit major shows. I come from the AVID world (where we see labels in multicam, as shown in the image below).

I'm more often asked to do my projects in Premiere these days. Not being able to see the labels on my timeline is really annoying. I need to find my bearings quickly. For a number of reasons, such as observing whether I'm using a source too often or fixing the same problem on a source every time I edit, it's crucial that I can see the labels directly on the timeline. It's a no brainer!

Thank you for considering my request and to the other editors, share, vote, make this request a reality!!!!

Martin Julien

[jamieclarke]

Hi @Martin Julien - We have labels in the Premiere Pro Timeline In the wrench menu you can select "Show Video Names" and if you right click on your clip you can go to the menu option "Label" to change the color.  Is there something about the way Premiere displays the labels that you wish were different?

[Martin Julien]

As a matter of fact, yes. I know I can change the label by right-clicking on a clip. But in a Multicam nest, the whole timeline changes color. I'd like to see the source clip's label every time I cut, not the multicam's color. Exactly as you can see in the image I've attached to my request. This part of the sequence is not simplified; I'm still in a multicam sequence. I've attached a video of the behavior I'd like to see in Premiere Pro.

Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nitw72d46efdsnahii84d/Source-Labels-View.mp4?rlkey=qwvjhv1d17ka4r7d32...

In case I didn't get it right, do you have more details?

[jamieclarke]

I see, that is a good request!  I can see how viewing the source clip color would be very helpful within a multi camera clip.

[MyerPj]

Cool request Martin.

We should all upvote the request using the big number at the top of the thread next to the thread title.

[Martin Julien]

@MyerPj. I see you're a community expert. Could you use your status to spread the idea to as many people as possible? That would certainly be a big boost!

[MyerPj]

I'm just a user like you - who has some time to come here and comment regularly.

[MyerPj]

And you do have an Adobe Staff member @jamieclarke already declare it's a 'good request', maybe stay in touch with him.

[trevor_7307]

+1 upvote.

This has been requested before - maybe didn't have enough up votes to make it through the User voice purge. 

It's standard behaviour on Avid - source camera labels (clip colours) are always shown in timeline, rather than the multicam clip label (colour).

And it's useful for 2-3 cam shows too.

I've been a Senior Editor for 24 years now. My specialty is editing multicam footage. When I've only got 10 cameras, it's okay. But more often than not, I get between 20 and 40 different sources, because most of the time, I'm called in to edit major shows. I come from the AVID world (where we see labels in multicam, as shown in the image below).

I'm more often asked to do my projects in Premiere these days. Not being able to see the labels on my timeline is really annoying. I need to find my bearings quickly. For a number of reasons, such as observing whether I'm using a source too often or fixing the same problem on a source every time I edit, it's crucial that I can see the labels directly on the timeline. It's a no brainer!

Thank you for considering my request and to the other editors, share, vote, make this request a reality!!!!

Martin Julien

By @Martin Julien

[trevor_7307]

Source label/colours to propogate through multicam clips (like Avid) - uservoice links NB these are now DEAD links. Just to show there's previous requests for the same feature...

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/42254086-multicam-clips-to-...

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/36149560-suggestion-to-allo...

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/40772875-with-multicam-grou...

(https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/39212719-show-source-label-...

[MyerPj]

Why did you post those UserVoice links, they're all dead. Now we use threads like this one, and upvote, currently at about 20. 

Search the forums for other similar threads, but don't post like that, it's just wastes peoples time.

[Trevor_Asq]

Sorry - meant to post they were dead - just to indicate there have been multiple requests for this over the years. Especially from Avid editors as they migrated to PP. 

[Trevor_Asq]

Oh and I posted with 2nd login I created - which doesn't allow editing of posts yet. Newer login dies allow me to see inline attachments + formatting, unlike this older one.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/problem-viewing-images-when-signed-in...

Post detailing issue with inline images etc...

[MyerPj]

Cheers! Thanks @Trevor_Asq 

🙂

[JuMagne974]

Upvote for this! Really miss this feature.

[bingee]

Hi adobe 

This would be very useful, I have tried all the methods mentione online and I can't get the label colours to show from the sources. This would be useful to apply a lumetri to all instances of a camera.

[trevor_7307]

@bingee "This would be useful to apply a lumetri to all instances of a camera."

Agreed, but what you can do is grade one instance of the camera in the timeline, go to effect editor + cut the lumetri effect, then match frame to source and paste the effect onto that (either source clip or within the multicam nest).

It then ripples through all instances.

[RedzDredz]

Has there been any update on this labelling issue or is it still in request? I'm also a fan of Avid's multi-cam labelling system, but am generally on Premiere Pro these days. How do i vote for your request to go through?