It's great to go into post-production knowing you've captured all the footage you need in a well-orchestrated multi-camera shoot. But it can be a logistical nightmare to sort, trim, synch, color-correct, and integrate it all if your editor of choice doesn't have a tool designed to streamline the process.
Fortunately, with version 2.0, Premiere Pro has added just such a tool. This chapter covers the technical aspects of Premiere Pro's Multi-Camera editor, which, frankly, I adore. Clips are wonderfully easy to synch, Multi-Camera color correction is very efficient, operation is fast, and you have an almost unlimited ability to edit your footage after you've selected your camera angles. At a high level, here's the workflow. You collect and synchronize your clips on one sequence, which I always name something like "pianosynch." I'll refer to this first clip as the synch sequence throughout this chapter. Then you drag this synch sequence into another sequence, which I always call something like "piano-edit," where you actually make your camera selections and fine-tune your edits. As you've probably guessed, I'll call this second sequence the edit sequence in this chapter. This chapter follows that workflow, and concludes with a look at how to pan and zoom within your HDV clips in a Multi-Camera edit. |