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USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO
Editing sequences and clips
Last updated 1/16/2012
Editing multi-camera sequences
About multi-camera editing
You can use the Multi-Camera Monitor to edit footage from multiple cameras, simulating live camera switching. You
can edit footage from up to four cameras using this technique.
For a tutorial on how to synchronize and switch between multiple cameras, see
www.adobe.com/go/learn_dv_tutorial_multicam_en
.
For a video tutorial on multi-camera editing, see
www.adobe.com/go/vid0234
.
Eddie Lotter provides a collection of tutorials and articles about multi-camera editing on the
Premiere Pro Wiki
website
.
Jon Barrie provides a video tutorial about multi-camera editing and synchronization on the
Creative COW website
.
Julio Roa provides
a video tutorial
about multicam editing in Premiere Pro CS5.
Jason Levine has
a useful video
about 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
this video tutorial
by Eran Stern.
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
” on
page 158.)
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 “
Synchronize clips with markers
” on page 158.)
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
” on page 159.)
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 “
Record multi-camera edits
” on page 159.)
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 “
Rerecord multi-camera edits
” on page 160 and “
Adjust multi-camera edits in a Timeline
panel
” on page 160.)