Tutorial: Multicamera Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Adobe Premiere Pro Instructor extraordinaire Luisa Winters explains how to use the new and enhanced Multi-Camera Monitor for quick and efficient multicam edits in Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 in this video and text tutorial.
Adding Timecode and Name to Make Each Camera Source Easy to ID
Again, it's very easy to cut a multicamera sequence using the Multi-Camera Monitor. Next, elongate the video track all the way to the end. This leaves you with just one angle. You can also Command double-click this nested sequence to open the original one. In this example, now that I am in the Free Running -- Multicam source, which is the one that contains all of the synced cameras, I can add effects to these clips. For that I'm going to click on the Effects panel and do a search for Timecode (Figure 16, below). I'm going to add the timecode effect to one of the cameras--in this case, Camera 1.
Figure 16. Choosing the Timecode effect and adding it to Camera 1.
Next I adjust the effect by going to the Effect Controls panel. In here I am happy with all of the values. I change the Label Text to Automatic, as shown in Figure 17 (below). Soon I will have to change it again.
Figure 17. Changing the Label Text to Automatic for the Timecode effect
Next--and this applies to any effect you're adding to a clip in a multicam sequence--click on the name of the effect (in this case, Timecode), and copy it using the shortcuts Ctrl+C (Windows) or Cmd+C (Mac OS). You can now maximize the sequence and paste the effect onto the other clips (Figure 18, below). This way all of the clips will show me timecode numbers and the label.
Figure 18. Copying and pasting the effect onto the other clips in the multicam sequence.
As you can see in Figure 19 (below), all of the labels of all of the clips are going to have MDA, which is not very descriptive. So I'm going to change that label.
Figure 19. Not a very descriptive label for the timecode.
For that I'm going to select just one of the cameras--in this case Camera 7--and I'm going to give it the correct label; same thing for Camera 6, Camera 5, and so forth (Figure 20, below). This is a very easy process that will actually give us the correct camera name when we are editing so that we always know which camera is which.
Figure 20. Timecode updated with camera numbers/names.
When I go back to the Multi-Camera Monitor and I maximize it, all of the clips have labels such as CM1 (as in Camera 1), and timecode numbers; this makes it really easy to differentiate between the different camera angles (Figure 21, below).
Figure 21. All cameras ID'd in the Multi-Camera Monitor.
Removing the Effect
After you finish editing the sequence you now go back to the original sequence, select all of the clips, right-click, and remove the effect (Figure 22, below). This will assure that no timecode numbers appear in my final video. You can remove any effect you apply to all your clips in this manner.
Figure 22. Removing the Timecode effect.
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