Advanced Multi-Camera Editing

Name: Advanced Multi-Camera Editing
Author: Jeff Shaffer

Discover how to import additional camera angles to your sequence and edit them before exporting

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Hello. In this lesson, we'll see how you can add cameras to your multi-camera sequence in Premiere Pro Timeline. Multi-camera productions require synchronization of cameras to a single or multiple audio tracks. Premiere Pro can create a synced nested sequence that can be edited quickly using camera number keys. Adding a camera to an existing sequence may require creating a new multi-camera sequence. Here I have two clips that I'll use to create a multi-camera sequence, summerwind.mov and summerwind1001. I select both and right-click to create multi-camera source sequence. I'll use the audio from track channel one to synchronize the clips. You can use in and out points or time code if all the cameras had synced time code. The sequence preset will be automatic and the sequence settings will be for camera one, and the clip will be called this. So there I have created this sequence. Drag and drop it into the timeline. There you can see the sequence. And to view it as a multi-camera sequence, I need to enable the multi-camera view. Now, I can do that with this toggle button, which can be found under the plus symbol here. You can drag and drop that into here, as I've done here to make it available. Then when you click on it, you'll be able to see the multiple camera angles as you scroll through or play it back. If multi-camera toggle is enabled via this icon, editing the sequence can be done using the one, two, three, et cetera keys that correspond to a camera angle. These are not the numbers found on the numeric keypad of an extended keyboard. These are the numbers directly above the Qwerty line of characters, Q-W-E-R-T-Y. Playing through the video and tapping the keys makes cuts in the nested sequence. (song playing) There you can see a cut is made there. These can be re-edited by playing the video again and using the number keys. If playback is dropping frames or sluggish, reducing the program monitor resolution can help. But what if you want to add another camera angle to the sequence? Ideally, you could simply create a new nested sequence using three cameras instead of two, in this example, which would make all three camera angles visible in the nested sequence. So let's do that. We'll go to my processed clips here, the folder, and I'm going to select summerwind001 60D. And I'll select this, this, and that. Create a new multi-camera source sequence in those three. And now we have a new sequence created. I'll close this out. Go to multi-cam. And there you can see, we have three camera angles. You could also add a clip to an existing nested sequence and choose synchronize. Then a new clip would be synced, but it would have to be edited manually. So for example, if I were to choose this previous sequence and I tried to add this third clip to it, you could see I could try to add that in and then choose synchronize. And of course now, you would have to edit this more conventionally. So in this lesson, you've seen how you can add cameras to your multi-camera sequence.

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Course Description

In this module, you’ll learn how to import additional camera angles to your multi-camera sequence, apply advanced edit techniques, and finalize your edit while removing unused footage prior to export.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

What You'll Learn

Import additional camera angles into a multi-camera sequence
Add a camera to existing multi-camera sequences
Apply advanced multi-camera editing techniques
Finalize a multi-camera edit
Remove unused footage prior to export

Key Takeaways

This module covers importing additional camera angles into a multi-camera sequence.
It teaches advanced edit techniques for multi-camera editing.
It explains how to finalize an edit and remove unused footage before export.
The module addresses adding a camera to existing multi-camera sequences.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this module cover?

This module covers importing additional camera angles to your multi-camera sequence, applying advanced edit techniques, and finalizing your edit while removing unused footage prior to export.

What lessons are included?

The module includes three lessons: Adding a Camera to Multi-Camera Sequences, Advanced Multi-Camera Edits, and Finalizing Multi-Camera Editing.

What skills will I build?

You will build skills in editing, film editing, linear video editing, multiple-camera production, video editing, and video editing software.

What are the learning objectives?

The learning objectives are to learn how to add additional camera angles to your sequence and to apply advanced edit techniques and finalize your edit.