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Editing multi-camera sequences (CS5 and CS5.5)
About multi-camera editing
About the Multi-Camera Monitor
Display the Multi-Camera Monitor
Add clips for multi-camera editing
Synchronize clips with markers
Create a multi-camera target sequence
Record multi-camera edits
Play nested multi-camera clips in the Program Monitor
Play clips in the Multi-Camera Monitor
Rerecord multi-camera edits
Adjust multi-camera edits in a Timeline panel
Insert or overwrite clips in a multi-camera sequence
About multi-camera editing
You can use the Multi-Camera Monitor to edit footage from multiple cameras, simulating live camera switching. In Premiere Pro CS5.5, and earlier,
you can edit footage from up to four cameras using this technique.
For information about editing multi-camera sequences in Premiere Pro CS6, see Editing multi-camera sequences (CS6).
To easily synchronize footage from all cameras, make sure each camera records a sync point using a clapper slate or other technique. Keep each
camera recording to maintain synchronization. After you capture the footage in Premiere Pro, use the following workflow to edit the footage:
1. Add clips from multiple cameras to a sequence.
Stack the clips from each camera on separate tracks of a sequence. (See
Add clips for multi-camera editing
.)
2. Synchronize the clips in the sequence.
Mark the sync point with numbered clip markers, or reassign the sync point for each camera to a specific timecode. (See
.)
3. Create the multi-camera target sequence.
The final edits are made in a target sequence. You create the target sequence by nesting the sequence of synchronized clips into a new
sequence. Then you enable the clip in the target sequence for multi-camera editing. (See
Create a multi-camera target sequence
4. Record the multi-camera edits.
In the Multi-Camera Monitor, you can view the footage of all four cameras simultaneously and switch between cameras to choose footage for the
final sequence. (See
.)
5. Adjust and refine edits.
You can rerecord the final sequence and substitute clips with footage from one of the other cameras. You can also edit the sequence like any other
sequence—using the standard editing tools and techniques, adding effects, or compositing using multiple tracks. (See
and
Adjust multi-camera edits in a Timeline panel
Online resources for multi-cam editing (Premiere Pro CS5.5, and earlier)
For a video tutorial on multi-camera editing, see
Eddie Lotter provides a collection of tutorials and articles about multi-camera editing on the
Jon Barrie provides a video tutorial about multi-camera editing and synchronization on the
.
Julio Roa provides
about multicam editing in Premiere Pro CS5.
Jason Levine has
multicam workflow for Premiere Pro here.
Tips about the multicam edit tool, including audio limitations, usage of third party effects and built in transitions are found in
Eran Stern.
About the Multi-Camera Monitor
The Multi-Camera Monitor plays the footage from each camera and a preview of the final edited sequence. When you record the final sequence,
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