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Switching a four-camera production: Lesson 8-5
The Multi-Camera feature simulates live camera switching for up to four cameras. Your work takes place within a monitor that shows the four sources and the final output.The workflow is as follows:
| 1. | Place clips from multiple cameras on separate tracksone above the otherin a sequence. |
| 2. | Synchronize the clips within that sequence. |
| 3. | Nest that multi-cam sequence in another sequence. |
| 4. | Enable the Multi-Camera feature. |
| 5. | Open the Multi-Camera Monitor. |
| 6. | View the clips and switch among the cameras. |
| 7. | Fine-tune the edits and apply effects and transitions on the sequence. |
In this lesson you will work with four clips, shot with four cameras at the same time from different angles. The production crew used a clapper slate, shown in the next figure, for use later during editing to synch the four cameras. The clapper slate gives both a visual and an aural indication to set synch points.
However, we will forgo the clapper slate in this mini-lesson for two reasons:
- I needed to conserve space on the DVD. It can hold only about 21 minutes of DV files. This is not to be confused with MPEG-2 video, which is the standard, compressed video format used for feature films on DVD. Single-sided DVDs can hold about two hours of MPEG-2 video.
- There was too much dead space between the marker and "action."
NoteYou can use any type of media in a multi-camera editing session, including footage from various cameras and from still images. You can add more than one clip to a track to accommodate the use of multiple tapes in a camera. Few video producers have the luxury of working with a full crew, so they end up using other cues to synch up their multi-cam shoots. So this mini-lesson has a real-world feel to it. In addition I purposely trimmed the clips and changed the timecodes so the synch point timecodes would all be different.This is a substantial lesson, so I've broken it into a three processes: setup, multi-camera switching and finalizing.
Creating the initial multi-camera sequence
| 1. | Open the Lesson 8 Practice sequence and delete all the clips. |
| 2. | Double-click Video 8a to put it in the Source Monitor. |
| 3. | Move the Source Monitor CTI to where the dancer slams his foot to the floor.I selected 01;02.You will use this as your clapper slate to set the synch point on all four clips. |
| 4. | Right-click in the Source Monitor Time Ruler and select Set Clip Marker > Next Available Numbered. This adds a little marker triangle behind the Source Monitor CTI (you'll need to drag the CTI out of the way to see that marker). |
NoteYou can put markers on clips or sequences. You use markers for a variety of purposes, most frequently to mark DVD Chapter points in sequences. In this case, you will have Premiere Pro move the four clips so the markers you place on their synch points all line up vertically.
NoteYou are placing this clip on Audio 1 because the Audio 1 track is the master audio source for the Multi-Camera edit and this clip has the best audio of the four angles.
) in the NoteIf you clicked the Insert button instead of Overlay, that would have moved the clips on Video 1 to the right. And if you did not target the Audio 2 track, the audio for Video 8b would replace the Video 8a audio on the Audio 1 track. [View full size image]
| 9. | Repeat that process for Video 8c, targeting the Video 3 and Audio 3 tracks and moving the Timeline CTI to the beginning before clicking the Overlay button. |
| 10. | Right-click on the Video 1, 2 or 3 header, select Add Tracks, and click OK in the Add Tracks Dialog box.The default setting is to add one video and one audio track, which is what you want to do in this case.[View full size image] |
| 11. | Repeat the marker setting and overlay process for Video 8d, targeting the newly added Video 4 and Audio 4 tracks.Your sequence should look like the next figure. |
NoteVideo and audio clips placed above track 4 will not be available for multi-camera editing. [View full size image]
| 12. | Marquee select the four clips. |
| 13. | Check whether the Video 1 track is targeted (highlighted). If not, click its header to target it (it's not necessary, in this case, to target an audio track). |
| 14. | Select Clip > Synchronize, Numbered Clip Marker (Marker 0 is the only choice), and click OK. The clips align to the Marker on the clip on Video 1. |
| 15. | Take a look at the Lesson 8 Practice sequence.All the markers are lined up vertically. The beginning of the clips above Video 1 were trimmed because they all had more video before the synch point than the clip on Video 1. If you had targeted the Video 4 track, those extra frames would have remained intact. Either way works fine but this saves a trim step later. |
NoteThere are other synching options. If I had not changed the timecode from the original footage, you could have foregone creating all the Markers and selected Timecode.
Switching Multiple Cameras
Now you will nest that synched and trimmed sequence in another sequence, switch on the Multi-Camera function and edit this four-camera shoot.
| 1. | Select File > New > Sequence and name it Multi-cam. |
| 2. | Drag the Lesson 8 Practice sequence from the Project panel to the beginning of the Video 1 track on the Multi-cam sequence. |
| 3. | Click on the Video 1 track header to target it, click on the nested sequence video clip to select it, and then select Clip > Multi-Camera > Enable. |
NoteThe command Multi-Camera > Enable will be unavailable unless you have the video track selected.
| 4. | Open the Program Monitor Fly-out Menu and click Multi-Camera Monitor.That opens the five screen Multi-Camera Monitor. |
| 5. | Open the Lesson 8 Practice sequence regardless of which camera is active. Otherwise the audio characteristics would change with each edit due to varying microphone placements.[View full size image] |
| 6. | Click the Play button and watch this video to get a feel for when to make your edits. |
NoteAfter making your edits, you can go back and change them in the Multi-Camera Monitor or on the Timeline.
NoteYou can also press the number keys 1-4 to switch among the four cameras.
| 8. | Use the playback controls to review your edited sequence.Note that at each edit point a yellow box appears on that camera shot. |
| 9. | Close the Multi-Camera Monitor.You can always return to it by selecting it from the Program Monitor Fly-out Menu. |
| 10. | Take a look at the sequence in the Timeline.As shown in the next figure, it will have multiple cut edits. Each clip's label will start with [MC #]. The number represents the video track used for that edit.[View full size image] |
Finalizing multi-camera editing
To change an edit in the Multi-Camera Monitor:
To change an edit in the Timeline:
| 1. | Right-click on the clip you want to change. |
| 2. | Select Multi-Camera and then click on the camera number. |
NoteSince you are editing on the Timeline, its rules apply. In this case, by doing what amounts to an overlay edit, you also replace the audio with the replacement clip's audio. If it's not the video that was on the Video 1 track, the audio will sound different. To retain the old audio, first ALT+click to select the clip. Using the Alt keyboard modifier unlinks the audio from the video. Then right-click, select Multi-Camera and change to a different camera. That will change only the video portion of the clip.
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