That " Multi-Camera Audio Follows Video" was a life saving ! thank you so much it's literally the best video about Multi-Cam in Premiere Pro that I saw on RUclips !
Your videos are some of the most useful I've come across. There's none of the 'how to animate a logo or how to apply a cinematic grade' tutorials that seem to be everywhere.
Wow. This video was a real life saver. Thanks for creating it. I feel like Premiere Pro made this harder than it had to be, but sometimes obfuscation is what they're best at. Thank you for helping me sort it out. You've saved me a lot of time and frustration on my next multicam assignment.
@@ThePremierePro Hey Paul. Here I am, four months later, revisiting your video because once again, I'm struggling with audio in Multicam. Can you help me? Specifically, I conducted a three camera interview with three people--the interviewer was on one camera in stereo (his voice was on both channels) and the two women he was interviewing were being captured on another camera--one was in the left channel, one was in the right. (The third camera was a wide shot--I didn't use the edit, except to sync the cameras in Multicam.) Anyway, I thought I was doing the right thing by trying to modify the audio on the camera with the two women by creating two mono tracks (instead of left and right), but when I put them into multicam, the women are in left and right speakers separately and I can't used the "Fill Right with Left" and "Fill Left with Right" option to fix it. What's weirder, is that they're IS audio coming out of the opposite channel for each woman, but it's a significantly lower volume (not equal on both channels, which would make them mono). I'm probably not explaining this well, but I have the entire hour interviewed and I'm hoping I don't have to start over to fix this. Any ideas? Or am I on my own on this one? Sorry for the long message.
Great video explaining how this works. Thanks! i was really confused why the audio file wasn't showing up as a source file in the multicam clip. This clarified that for me. I was too used to how it's done in Final Cut Pro and you have saved me a headache. Cheers!
Hey man I hope this comment finds you. I do podcast editing, with a guest and a host. We have 2 or 3 cameras per shoot. And one of them records the mic audio. The host is on the left channel, and the guest is on the right channel for easier audio cleaning. What I do is I bring the mic audio into my timeline and duplicate it. V1 has the multi cam audio (which is muted) V2 has the guest audio which was recorded in mono, but was converted to stereo. V3 was also recorded in mono but it has the host audio and is also converted to stereo. Now I want to know how do I switch audio tracks automatically with the camera angle. The audio source is 1 single file and its basically recoded seperately from both cameras.
I can't quite visualize what you're describing, but it sounds like you want to sync your files with Audio Sequence Settings set to Switch Audio. This setting will change both the camera angle and audio simultaneously-so, for example, if you select V2, it will only play A2. It seems like you've got multiple audio channels in one file, so you may need to adjust the Audio Channel Format to play only one mic channel at a time. If not every video file includes the audio channels you need, create audio-only versions of each channel to select them individually. You can do this by clicking the clip in the Project panel and choosing Clip > Audio Options > Breakout to Mono. If you have a third angle, like a wide shot, consider doing a mixdown of both mics for that shot.
This was very helpful and I will without a doubt be using multicam way more often in my editing for my channel. Thanks a ton! EDIT: You got my subscription. I'll see you again soon! 😉
So helpful! thank you very much. One question, how do I change my mutitcam settings from camera 1 to All cameras AFTER i've created the Multicam sequence..fingers crossed
@@FUBAR-OFFICIAL Unfortunately there's no easy fix for this. Probably the quickest solution is to disable the 'Insert And Overwrite Sequences As Nest Or Individual Clips' button in the timeline, load each instance of the multicam sequence in your timeline using Match Frame (F) and overwriting the audio. This will replace the multicam audio with all the original audio files.
WoW! Thanks! I wish I knew this before I started editing. Maybe one question remains: how can one replace the audio? Let's say there's a new audio file, or an new mixdown, how can the audio in the multicamera source "container" be replaced so it reflects up to the sequence with the editing? The problem is that I forgot to make the audio track stereo. Now when I do that in the project window, it does not update the placed track. Replacing it in the multicam source also doesn't replace it in the sequence...
@@ThePremierePro yes. It's coming from a boom mic but is mono. I had to keep going, so I restarted editing the first of the six videos and re-created all the multicam setup. What I did before re-creating them is to change the audio in the project window to stereo. At the beginning I was hoping that this would actually update the clip in the sequence. To be honest, I don't understand why clips like this are not like pre-composed tracks in AfterEffects... In those, when you swap footage, as long as you replace with the same length, the main composition will show those changes. Or am I missing something? Because when I replaced the mono audio in the multicam source clip with the stereo one form the bin, it remained mono in the sequence where I make the cuts.
@@alexfurer Content changes will ripple through like precomps, but the audio channel format won't. You need to make sure 1) inside the multicam clip, the stereo clip is on a stereo track 2) the multicam mix track is outputting stereo pairs (you can't mix and match stereo and mono mixes with multicam sequences, it has to be one or the other) and 3) the clip audio channel format of the sequence is outputting stereo pairs (you can check this by selecting the multicam in the Project panel and pressing Shift+G). Since you've already started editing, you'll need to manually replace these in the timeline (i.e. select each instance multicam clip, press F to load it in the source monitor and then peroid (.) to overwrite the clip in the timeline with the new audio channels).
@@ThePremierePro Thank you very much! Really appreciate your feedback! Premiere is not my main application I work with, so this is very helpful. While we're at it, would you know, or know of a video that explains how to edit audio in Audition of a multicam setup? Would that work if I edit the source track in Audition and then use the same F and Period trick? All I saw so far was to render the video, edit the audio, then replace the audio in the timeline manually. Which is a no-go when I have dozens of cuts.
@@alexfurer So long as the audio channel format doesn't change between Premiere and Audition, select the audio inside the multicam clip and choose Edit > Edit Clip in Audition. This will replace the original clip with a new file with "_Extracted" added to the filename so you can make destructive edits in the Audition Waveform editor. If you need to rollback to the original media, just right-click the clip in Premiere and choose Restore Unrendered.
Wow one of the best no nonsense videos I've come across on the subject. Thank you! QQ for you. In the common mistakes section you mentioned a glitch of having audio waveforms not render in a multicam clip. Do know specifically what causes that? Curious as previous method I used was constantly causing that. That being said, the method was for me to make one multicam clip and then duplicate it and shell it out for other sequences.
Thanks! No waveforms means that some kind of mixdown is happening inside the multicam audio tracks, e.g. mono tracks mixing down into a stereo master, or an effect added to a clip or track. I have another video coming out soon that shows the right way to create multicam sequences manually without using Clip > Create Multicam.
Great video - thank you very much. Quick question. If You use the "automatic" and "all cameras" option, is there an easy was to control the audio selected in the resulting sequence? I don't want to switch to the audio channel associated with the selected video, rather I would like to choose the "best" audio track for the video... currently I am just using solo on the audio track I want, but wondering if there was a better way?
Great question! Of course, you can just delete the tracks you don't want on the timeline, or mute them (this is best if you're sending your sequence to Pro Tools for mixing). But if you want more control over the number of tracks + which channels to use, select the Multicam sequence (either in the timeline or your Project panel) and choose Clip > Modify > Audio Channels. Note: you can only change the number of tracks before you add it to the timeline.
Hi. Great resource and very helpful! What to do in case we want to use Switch Audio and we have: Camera 1 - person 1 Camera 2 - person 2 Camera 3 - person 1+2 Audio 1 - Person 1 Audio 2 - person 2 What must be done to preserve a valid audio recording from camera 3 in which both person 1 and person 2 are speaking?
Thanks Albert, great question - for this, you can create a new sequence with Camera 3, Audio 1 and Audio 2, and then select this sequence as the 3rd camera when you're creating your multicamera sequence. A simpler solution might be to use the 'Camera 1' sync option, so that Audio 1 and Audio 2 are always enabled, and you just switch between Camera 1, 2 and 3.
Maybe I missed it... but what if I want my audio to be a mixdown of everything that is in the multicam sequence? Is this not possible? I'm use to After Effects, the different behaviors between 2 software are driving me insane. If I mute or solo tracks inside my multi-cam seq, they are not muted when I'm outside of that, editing them all?
Absence of waveforms is usually 1 of 2 things: 1) multiple input channels are being merged into a single output channel inside the multicam sequence, or 2) an effect has been applied to the clip inside the multicam sequence.
@@ThePremierePro I feel helpless as to how to ascertain, much less resolve, the input/output channels. I did assign an audio preset to the one channel of audio that controls the multi-cam sequence. That's probably the problem.
Thanks for this video! I love the Switch Audio option. It's new for me. When I drag the multicam sequence into my main sequence timeline, the audio wave forms are there, no problem. But when I right-click to open the multicam sequence in the timeline (where I see each track individually), the audio wave forms do not appear. I tried right-clicking the Enable option but that didn't work. Also, when I click on the wrench to open up settings, the options you showed are greyed out. I need to be able to see the audio waveforms in the multicam to manually sync a clip whose audio did not record. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!!!
I'm finding it a bit hard to visualize what you're describing. Are you saying that when you open the multicam sequence in its own timeline, there are no audio clips in there, only video?
It's odd that they're appearing in you main sequence, but not the actual multicam sequence. Maybe check to make sure your track height is big enough to see waveforms? It might also be that a restart or clearing your media cache will clear things up.@@MarciaScott-k8p
Hi, very clear vid/explanation. Thank you!. Would you mind explaining the difference between track 1, 2, and mix down on the audio settings in the create multicamera source sequence box. I have looked all over for a clear explanation of what I'm getting when I select one over the other to no avail. I feel like you would probably have a good handle on it being the Premiere Pro :)
If you don't need Cam 3 audio in the timeline at all, just select the clip in the Project panel, choose Clip > Modify > Audio Channels and uncheck Channel 3.
Mannnn. So I've already got my MultiCam sequence set up and have done extensive editing on it. For some reason the source sequence plays the audio just fine through all the channels, but the MultiCam version in my edit is only playing the left channel. Any idea at all how to fix this without having to recreate my MultiCam sequence?
This most commonly happens when you're editing a multicam sequence on an adaptive track (adaptive tracks have numbers next to them). The solution is to add a standard track to your editing sequence and move your multicam sequence to that, then select every instance of your multicam and right-click > Remove Attributes > uncheck everything except for Panner.
@@ThePremierePro Legend! That didn't quite fix it, but it made me realize that one MultiCam clip in my regular sequence was working right and so I saw that it had the pan set to 0, and for some reason all the other ones were set to -100. Copied and pasted panner attributes to the rest of them and wha-la! Thank you for the speedy reply! There needs to be more good content like this about the many little quirks and snags that can happen in Premiere
Hi, the video didn't answer my question about multicam audio. What if I didn't use the "create multi camera source sequence". Where can this be changed afterward? I have manually created a sequence with 3 tracks of synced video and stereo audio. I nested this and enabled multicam but the nested multicam sequence only play one of the audio tracks. I want to use audio from "all cameras" like the option in "create multi camera source sequence. How do I combine all the audio in the nested sequence? Thanks for sharing :)
@@ThePremierePro yeah, I previously peeked at that video, but I couldn't relate because I was trying to fix a MC that was already created. I think "adaptive track" is probably the sinner, but Google hasn't been kind last couple of hours. I'll probably head back to start and do it your way. Thanks for the help.
If you're using Audio as your Synchronize Point, then this error message means Premiere is unable to find a match between the waveforms. This can be caused by excessive noise on one of the audio files, sometimes different sample rates or Premiere analyzing a channel that does not have any audio on it (you can fix this one by choosing Track Channel when you create your Multicam Clip).
I select "Camera 1" in the settings but it still adds the camera sounds as well as the microphone sounds. I only want the synced micriphone audio, and I want to get rid of the camera sound.
You can open the Multicam Sequence to see how the camera sound is being added. Hold down the Cmd/Ctrl key and double-click the Multicam clip in either the Project or Timeline panel to open it in the timeline.
@@ThePremierePro i'm working on a feature length as assistant editor to my college professor, so this techy stuff is extremely important i do right. Thank you, I finished all the proxies, multicam sq's, fixed all the issues thanks to your channel. He can begin editing the film now :)
For panning issues, you want to watch the part on Audio Channel Format. Another cause comes up when you create a new sequence by using New Sequence From Clip (if the selected clip is a multicam sequence). It's always better to create your main editing sequence manually when using multicamera clips.
@@ThePremierePro Funnily enough right before reading this I realized the New Sequence From Clip with multicam was the issue. Good to hear you confirm. Adobe IT was clueless. Thanks for the upload
Hey thanks for this video! I wonder if you can help me. I'm pretty sure there is a simple answer to this but someone else has sync'd the multi clips together with separate audio. So I don't know if that has complicated things. I have two tracks of audio on the multiclip. Sometime I want to change the mix track for a lapel mic for example. The way I've been trying is to disable the Multiclip (there i find 16 tracks of audio all muted and channel 1 and 2 are not muted) which Is what I believe is what the multiclip it's using. If i want the tracks on A3 and A4 i swap them round so they are now on A1 and A2 but when I go back to the multiclip in the timeline and enable it only A1 is there and A2 is blank? Anyidea? Thank you!
When a track is blank, it's usually a sign that Premiere needs to render before it can display waveforms. This can be caused by things like audio effects, mismatches between the audio clip and the track format or an edit inside the multicam sequence that requires processing. I would recommend keeping the audio inside the multicam sequence as it is, but rearranging those tracks in your edit timeline (or even better, rearrange them in the Project Panel using Clip > Modify > Audio Channels).
@@ThePremierePro Thanks so much for your reply i really appreciate it. Alas the issue is I only have two channels to choose from when doing the audio channel box?
Ah, I see what your problem is now - the audio you want to use is one of the 16 tracks that's muted, right? So the multicamera sequence was probably created using the 'Camera 1' setting when it should have been 'All Cameras' (and then you could easily choose which audio you want to use). Is there a notable difference between the audio tracks that are muted and the ones that aren't? For example, does one have 2 channels and the other has 1 channel?
@@ThePremierePro correct. To be clear tho I can switch cameras with no problem. But i think your right It was multi clipped using camera 1 audio. For the most part yes there is a noticeable difference. I believe some are lav and boom mic’s respectively. This particular scene has four people in it. I will say tho there are some that i can’t find clean the audio for so I guess I could syncing it again. It was all sync’d in resolve. I’m not sure why there are so many tracks tho I can only guess there should be 8 and one comes from each camera which has then been sync’d together. Thanks again for your help!
@@BenAllanCM No worries! Switching cameras is always the easiest part - it's getting the audio right that can be the headache. Of course, there's also the option to use Switch Cameras, to change the video and audio sources together - but in a scene with 4 people, I'd usually want all audio sources available during the edit.
I still have problems! Even after changing all of my channels and selecting all cameras, I'm still getting one track with audio and the rest of my tracks are just blank. Not to mention that proxies are screwed up if you change the audio channels. Anyone else getting blank tracks even when the all cameras option is selected?
I'm having this issue where the audio waveform is flat and I cannot see it even if i click generate audio waveform. What is the solution please? I didn't get it form the tutorial, thanks!
@@ThePremierePro select the footage, right click, create multicam source sequence. Also, Ive been having another issue, not sure if its a bug or sth im doing wrong:when i pass through a sequence again to modify the cuts it doesnt overwrite well, some cuts are still there, the camera changes but the physical cut on the clip doesnt go away, so its a bit confusing sometimes. Im new to this multicam workflow so it might just be it. Thanks a lot!
If you select all the clips in your sequence that used the multicam clips, then right click on one of them... go to Multi-cam...Enable. That's it! All you clips should now show the waveforms. It worked perfectly for me yesterday. Too many secrets to keep track of in Premiere, but so many of them are a Right-Click away.
All of this is fine, but it still bugs when I flatten my audio after the edit is approved. The correct audio content never is mapped in the timeline, and duplicates of certain audio source tracks populate the timeline, typically, the first 2 tracks are fine and the rest are all duplicates of the first track... Help! :)
This does not help me. Fir unknown reasons, I can only hear the multi-cam audio when I place the Sequence into my primary timeline. But I need to fine tune the clips within the multi-cam sequence. Which I can not do when I can't hear it while in the multi-cam sequence. It worked last month without issue and there have been no updates on this computer, due to using a older version of premiere.
Multicamera source sequences typically output one channel per speaker, so if you're inside a multicam sequence and using stereo speakers, you'll only hear audio from channels 1 and 2. To hear more than channels 1 and 2, even with limited speakers, try this: 1. Click the *Monitor Channels* button (looks like a bowtie) at the bottom of the Audio Meters. 2. *Shift + click* the button to monitor all channels. When the buttons are purple, the channels will be summed to all available speakers, making sure you hear everything even with a stereo setup.
@@ThePremierePro Thanks and sorry for the late reply. I've ran into a new issues that I'm hoping you can help me solve. Can't find he solution anywhere else. This is a new one for me. Only two cameras used for the recording. But Premiere is spitting out two Multicam Sequences instead of one. Do you know how I can prevent this?
I'm getting a 32 channel sequence from FIVE 5.1 sources and ONE stereo. Tried it three times. Makes no sense whatsoever. I've used the same six cameras for multi sequences before and never had anything like this. Until someone can help me make sense of it, I'll be installing that free version of Resolve. My hunch is this is just yet another example of Premiere getting worse instead of betrer.
Is There Any Premiere Experienced User that could help me out if a problem that I couldn't find the solution anywhere? It doesn't seem to be a bug, but is definitely a super weird behavior. The problem is Shown in this very short 3 min video: Insert Project Sequence in Another Sequence Project Timeline - Adobe Premiere - Help - Problem ruclips.net/video/-9BT_KSWfGU/видео.html Any help would be extremely appreciated
It sounds like your sequences have In/Out settings that get applied when you use the Insert/Overwrite commands. To fix this, select all your sequences in the Project panel and choose Markers > Clear In & Out.
@@ThePremierePro Thanks for the help, this problem drove me crazy for a While, so far I've been just dragging a dropping the sequence to the timeline of the assembled parts project, or even other ways to deal with it. But I love to find ways to do things more productively, the with less clicks at the mouse. I checked what you said, and all my projects are cleared of in and out, I even have a shortcut for "Clean In and Out" But if I drop the sequence project in the timeline using the keyboard shortcut I still get the same result as shown at the video: Insert Project Sequence in Another Sequence Project Timeline - Adobe Premiere - Help - Problem ruclips.net/video/-9BT_KSWfGU/видео.html Wich doesn't even make sense, why premiere would set in the end of the sequence that giant black hashed video excess. with no audio and no video. So far I've been working that around. Thanks for the help Cheers.
That " Multi-Camera Audio Follows Video" was a life saving ! thank you so much it's literally the best video about Multi-Cam in Premiere Pro that I saw on RUclips !
yeah i am about to use it now.
PHENOMENAL. Simply can't believe why they didn't enable "Audio follows Video" automatically when you select Switch Audio.
Same thing brought me here. Why even give the option? It's so redundant.
So nice to see Paul Murph show up to answer my premier issues!
You're welcome Shazbot ;)
Thank you!! By far the best breakdown I've seen of how audio works in multi-cam clips. So helpful!
Your videos are some of the most useful I've come across. There's none of the 'how to animate a logo or how to apply a cinematic grade' tutorials that seem to be everywhere.
Steven2156 thanks Steven, that’s made my day :)
Possibly the most clear, concise vid I've seen on APP on RUclips! Subscribed! Thank You!! I will be back to your channel!
the trick with adjusting clip audio channels to match before putting them into the multicam is amazing! thanks!
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful.
Thank you thank you SO MUCH for making this video you saved me an hour of trial and error. I'd hug you if I knew you.
You're welcome! Your feedback is as good as a hug :)
06:51 Thanks man. This stupid little check mark... I tried so many things now. Awesome video
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for these very specific audio-based Premiere tutorials!
You're welcome!
thanks for saving me. I was going nuts without know about the "Multi-Camera Audio Follows Video "
Wow. This video was a real life saver. Thanks for creating it. I feel like Premiere Pro made this harder than it had to be, but sometimes obfuscation is what they're best at. Thank you for helping me sort it out. You've saved me a lot of time and frustration on my next multicam assignment.
Great to hear Quasiguy!
@@ThePremierePro Hey Paul. Here I am, four months later, revisiting your video because once again, I'm struggling with audio in Multicam. Can you help me? Specifically, I conducted a three camera interview with three people--the interviewer was on one camera in stereo (his voice was on both channels) and the two women he was interviewing were being captured on another camera--one was in the left channel, one was in the right. (The third camera was a wide shot--I didn't use the edit, except to sync the cameras in Multicam.) Anyway, I thought I was doing the right thing by trying to modify the audio on the camera with the two women by creating two mono tracks (instead of left and right), but when I put them into multicam, the women are in left and right speakers separately and I can't used the "Fill Right with Left" and "Fill Left with Right" option to fix it. What's weirder, is that they're IS audio coming out of the opposite channel for each woman, but it's a significantly lower volume (not equal on both channels, which would make them mono). I'm probably not explaining this well, but I have the entire hour interviewed and I'm hoping I don't have to start over to fix this. Any ideas? Or am I on my own on this one? Sorry for the long message.
@@quasiguy Happy to help! What is the audio channel format for the interviewer? And do you need the multicam to switch audio as well as video?
After figuring out my first 2 multi cam edits the third one refused to bring in audio from 1 of the cameras.
Thank you so much for this video!
Good stuff! We did 3 cam shoot to a switcher. In Multi-cam, we got Audio Drift. Yes cams had different mono and stereo output.
Thanks Andre! Did the cams records different audio sample rates? That can cause audio drift.
@@ThePremierePro probably? Thanks.
This is great. Thanks. Straight to the point and a summary at the end. You got a new sub
Thank you sir!
Thank you! figured out an audio issue i had
that was a great video and saved many hours from me ♥ thanks
Most helpful video out there on multicam audio. Thank you!
You're welcome Billy, thanks for the kind words!
Thank you! This was exactly what I needed. Very informative.
Glad to hear it!
that's really helpful and deep dig down ...💖💖
that was exactly what i needed to fix my problem! thank you
That's great to hear Drac, glad it helped.
Thank you so much for making this. I became increasingly enraged as you listed common issues, as I have ALL THESE PROBLEMS 🤣
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Great video explaining how this works. Thanks! i was really confused why the audio file wasn't showing up as a source file in the multicam clip. This clarified that for me. I was too used to how it's done in Final Cut Pro and you have saved me a headache. Cheers!
Hey man I hope this comment finds you. I do podcast editing, with a guest and a host. We have 2 or 3 cameras per shoot. And one of them records the mic audio. The host is on the left channel, and the guest is on the right channel for easier audio cleaning. What I do is I bring the mic audio into my timeline and duplicate it. V1 has the multi cam audio (which is muted) V2 has the guest audio which was recorded in mono, but was converted to stereo. V3 was also recorded in mono but it has the host audio and is also converted to stereo. Now I want to know how do I switch audio tracks automatically with the camera angle. The audio source is 1 single file and its basically recoded seperately from both cameras.
I can't quite visualize what you're describing, but it sounds like you want to sync your files with Audio Sequence Settings set to Switch Audio. This setting will change both the camera angle and audio simultaneously-so, for example, if you select V2, it will only play A2.
It seems like you've got multiple audio channels in one file, so you may need to adjust the Audio Channel Format to play only one mic channel at a time.
If not every video file includes the audio channels you need, create audio-only versions of each channel to select them individually. You can do this by clicking the clip in the Project panel and choosing Clip > Audio Options > Breakout to Mono.
If you have a third angle, like a wide shot, consider doing a mixdown of both mics for that shot.
Is there a way to fix the settings after the fact?
Thank you! Very informative!
This was very helpful and I will without a doubt be using multicam way more often in my editing for my channel. Thanks a ton!
EDIT: You got my subscription. I'll see you again soon! 😉
Thanks so much!
So helpful! thank you very much. One question, how do I change my mutitcam settings from camera 1 to All cameras AFTER i've created the Multicam sequence..fingers crossed
Have you already started editing with the multicamera sequence?
@@ThePremierePro yes. Many of them
Any thoughts, thanks in advance
@@FUBAR-OFFICIAL Unfortunately there's no easy fix for this. Probably the quickest solution is to disable the 'Insert And Overwrite Sequences As Nest Or Individual Clips' button in the timeline, load each instance of the multicam sequence in your timeline using Match Frame (F) and overwriting the audio. This will replace the multicam audio with all the original audio files.
@@ThePremierePro thanks so much for the help.
Thank you!
ty paul murphy
WoW! Thanks! I wish I knew this before I started editing. Maybe one question remains: how can one replace the audio? Let's say there's a new audio file, or an new mixdown, how can the audio in the multicamera source "container" be replaced so it reflects up to the sequence with the editing? The problem is that I forgot to make the audio track stereo. Now when I do that in the project window, it does not update the placed track. Replacing it in the multicam source also doesn't replace it in the sequence...
Thanks! Just to confirm - your multicam source was initially mono and you need to update it to stereo?
@@ThePremierePro yes. It's coming from a boom mic but is mono. I had to keep going, so I restarted editing the first of the six videos and re-created all the multicam setup. What I did before re-creating them is to change the audio in the project window to stereo. At the beginning I was hoping that this would actually update the clip in the sequence. To be honest, I don't understand why clips like this are not like pre-composed tracks in AfterEffects... In those, when you swap footage, as long as you replace with the same length, the main composition will show those changes. Or am I missing something? Because when I replaced the mono audio in the multicam source clip with the stereo one form the bin, it remained mono in the sequence where I make the cuts.
@@alexfurer Content changes will ripple through like precomps, but the audio channel format won't. You need to make sure 1) inside the multicam clip, the stereo clip is on a stereo track 2) the multicam mix track is outputting stereo pairs (you can't mix and match stereo and mono mixes with multicam sequences, it has to be one or the other) and 3) the clip audio channel format of the sequence is outputting stereo pairs (you can check this by selecting the multicam in the Project panel and pressing Shift+G). Since you've already started editing, you'll need to manually replace these in the timeline (i.e. select each instance multicam clip, press F to load it in the source monitor and then peroid (.) to overwrite the clip in the timeline with the new audio channels).
@@ThePremierePro Thank you very much! Really appreciate your feedback! Premiere is not my main application I work with, so this is very helpful. While we're at it, would you know, or know of a video that explains how to edit audio in Audition of a multicam setup? Would that work if I edit the source track in Audition and then use the same F and Period trick? All I saw so far was to render the video, edit the audio, then replace the audio in the timeline manually. Which is a no-go when I have dozens of cuts.
@@alexfurer So long as the audio channel format doesn't change between Premiere and Audition, select the audio inside the multicam clip and choose Edit > Edit Clip in Audition. This will replace the original clip with a new file with "_Extracted" added to the filename so you can make destructive edits in the Audition Waveform editor. If you need to rollback to the original media, just right-click the clip in Premiere and choose Restore Unrendered.
Wow one of the best no nonsense videos I've come across on the subject. Thank you! QQ for you. In the common mistakes section you mentioned a glitch of having audio waveforms not render in a multicam clip. Do know specifically what causes that? Curious as previous method I used was constantly causing that. That being said, the method was for me to make one multicam clip and then duplicate it and shell it out for other sequences.
Thanks! No waveforms means that some kind of mixdown is happening inside the multicam audio tracks, e.g. mono tracks mixing down into a stereo master, or an effect added to a clip or track. I have another video coming out soon that shows the right way to create multicam sequences manually without using Clip > Create Multicam.
@@ThePremierePro Genius! Can not wait to see. Keep up the good work.
How can you update the settings if you've had to create a multicam sequence by nesting a sequence?
Here's my tutorial on how to manually create multicam sequences: ruclips.net/video/aiVYRuWohZI/видео.html
@@ThePremierePro Thanks so much Paul
Great video - thank you very much. Quick question. If You use the "automatic" and "all cameras" option, is there an easy was to control the audio selected in the resulting sequence? I don't want to switch to the audio channel associated with the selected video, rather I would like to choose the "best" audio track for the video... currently I am just using solo on the audio track I want, but wondering if there was a better way?
Great question! Of course, you can just delete the tracks you don't want on the timeline, or mute them (this is best if you're sending your sequence to Pro Tools for mixing). But if you want more control over the number of tracks + which channels to use, select the Multicam sequence (either in the timeline or your Project panel) and choose Clip > Modify > Audio Channels. Note: you can only change the number of tracks before you add it to the timeline.
@@ThePremierePro Thank you so much for the reply - its much appreciated
Hi. Great resource and very helpful!
What to do in case we want to use Switch Audio and we have:
Camera 1 - person 1
Camera 2 - person 2
Camera 3 - person 1+2
Audio 1 - Person 1
Audio 2 - person 2
What must be done to preserve a valid audio recording from camera 3 in which both person 1 and person 2 are speaking?
Thanks Albert, great question - for this, you can create a new sequence with Camera 3, Audio 1 and Audio 2, and then select this sequence as the 3rd camera when you're creating your multicamera sequence. A simpler solution might be to use the 'Camera 1' sync option, so that Audio 1 and Audio 2 are always enabled, and you just switch between Camera 1, 2 and 3.
Thank you so much, your the man😎
You're welcome Levian!
What was the solution for no waveform on the multicam audio tracks?
That's covered in the Channel Format section. Another cause for this is having an effect on your audio clip inside the multicam sequence.
Maybe I missed it... but what if I want my audio to be a mixdown of everything that is in the multicam sequence? Is this not possible? I'm use to After Effects, the different behaviors between 2 software are driving me insane.
If I mute or solo tracks inside my multi-cam seq, they are not muted when I'm outside of that, editing them all?
very good thank you
You're welcome Egidio!
Didn't address the absence of waveform problem, otherwise a very strong explainer.
Absence of waveforms is usually 1 of 2 things: 1) multiple input channels are being merged into a single output channel inside the multicam sequence, or 2) an effect has been applied to the clip inside the multicam sequence.
@@ThePremierePro I feel helpless as to how to ascertain, much less resolve, the input/output channels. I did assign an audio preset to the one channel of audio that controls the multi-cam sequence. That's probably the problem.
@@kevinhogan7814 Send me your project file if you're still having trouble.
Thanks for this video! I love the Switch Audio option. It's new for me. When I drag the multicam sequence into my main sequence timeline, the audio wave forms are there, no problem. But when I right-click to open the multicam sequence in the timeline (where I see each track individually), the audio wave forms do not appear. I tried right-clicking the Enable option but that didn't work. Also, when I click on the wrench to open up settings, the options you showed are greyed out. I need to be able to see the audio waveforms in the multicam to manually sync a clip whose audio did not record. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!!!
I'm finding it a bit hard to visualize what you're describing. Are you saying that when you open the multicam sequence in its own timeline, there are no audio clips in there, only video?
Thanks for your response. The audio clips appear but there are no waveforms in them. @@ThePremierePro
It doesn't happen all the time. It happened once and it was either when I used the "swap audio" or "mixdown" option. Can't quite remember which...
It's odd that they're appearing in you main sequence, but not the actual multicam sequence. Maybe check to make sure your track height is big enough to see waveforms? It might also be that a restart or clearing your media cache will clear things up.@@MarciaScott-k8p
Hi, very clear vid/explanation. Thank you!. Would you mind explaining the difference between track 1, 2, and mix down on the audio settings in the create multicamera source sequence box. I have looked all over for a clear explanation of what I'm getting when I select one over the other to no avail. I feel like you would probably have a good handle on it being the Premiere Pro :)
Yep, this just gives you the ability to sync video to audio using a specific audio channel - left (1), right (2) or both (mixdown).
@@ThePremierePro Thank you!
What do you do if:
You only want Cam1 + Cam2 to follow Audio, but not Cam 3 (because it has only sync audio)?
If you don't need Cam 3 audio in the timeline at all, just select the clip in the Project panel, choose Clip > Modify > Audio Channels and uncheck Channel 3.
Mannnn. So I've already got my MultiCam sequence set up and have done extensive editing on it. For some reason the source sequence plays the audio just fine through all the channels, but the MultiCam version in my edit is only playing the left channel. Any idea at all how to fix this without having to recreate my MultiCam sequence?
This most commonly happens when you're editing a multicam sequence on an adaptive track (adaptive tracks have numbers next to them). The solution is to add a standard track to your editing sequence and move your multicam sequence to that, then select every instance of your multicam and right-click > Remove Attributes > uncheck everything except for Panner.
@@ThePremierePro Legend! That didn't quite fix it, but it made me realize that one MultiCam clip in my regular sequence was working right and so I saw that it had the pan set to 0, and for some reason all the other ones were set to -100. Copied and pasted panner attributes to the rest of them and wha-la! Thank you for the speedy reply! There needs to be more good content like this about the many little quirks and snags that can happen in Premiere
Hi, the video didn't answer my question about multicam audio. What if I didn't use the "create multi camera source sequence". Where can this be changed afterward? I have manually created a sequence with 3 tracks of synced video and stereo audio. I nested this and enabled multicam but the nested multicam sequence only play one of the audio tracks. I want to use audio from "all cameras" like the option in "create multi camera source sequence. How do I combine all the audio in the nested sequence? Thanks for sharing :)
Hi Terje, check out this video on manually creating multicam sequences: ruclips.net/video/aiVYRuWohZI/видео.html
@@ThePremierePro yeah, I previously peeked at that video, but I couldn't relate because I was trying to fix a MC that was already created. I think "adaptive track" is probably the sinner, but Google hasn't been kind last couple of hours. I'll probably head back to start and do it your way. Thanks for the help.
How to quickly create a multi-camera from clips on a timeline that sync to audio?
Select the video clips only and choose Clip > Nest, then right-click the nested sequence and choose Mulicamera > Enable.
please how do I fix failure to synchronize audio error!!!
If you're using Audio as your Synchronize Point, then this error message means Premiere is unable to find a match between the waveforms. This can be caused by excessive noise on one of the audio files, sometimes different sample rates or Premiere analyzing a channel that does not have any audio on it (you can fix this one by choosing Track Channel when you create your Multicam Clip).
@@ThePremierePro is there a way to use multicam even when the audio cant sync?
@@CptZhu Yep, I have a tutorial on it here: ruclips.net/video/aiVYRuWohZI/видео.html
I select "Camera 1" in the settings but it still adds the camera sounds as well as the microphone sounds. I only want the synced micriphone audio, and I want to get rid of the camera sound.
You can open the Multicam Sequence to see how the camera sound is being added. Hold down the Cmd/Ctrl key and double-click the Multicam clip in either the Project or Timeline panel to open it in the timeline.
@@ThePremierePro Thank you!
@@ThePremierePro i'm working on a feature length as assistant editor to my college professor, so this techy stuff is extremely important i do right. Thank you, I finished all the proxies, multicam sq's, fixed all the issues thanks to your channel. He can begin editing the film now :)
@@Bsus4films Good luck with it! If you have any other questions, let me know.
What specifically is the solution for panning? Did I miss it?
For panning issues, you want to watch the part on Audio Channel Format. Another cause comes up when you create a new sequence by using New Sequence From Clip (if the selected clip is a multicam sequence). It's always better to create your main editing sequence manually when using multicamera clips.
@@ThePremierePro Funnily enough right before reading this I realized the New Sequence From Clip with multicam was the issue. Good to hear you confirm. Adobe IT was clueless. Thanks for the upload
@@ericberman_ Great to hear it's resolved!
Cant find the pop up menu called "Create multi camera source sequence"
Hey thanks for this video! I wonder if you can help me. I'm pretty sure there is a simple answer to this but someone else has sync'd the multi clips together with separate audio. So I don't know if that has complicated things.
I have two tracks of audio on the multiclip. Sometime I want to change the mix track for a lapel mic for example.
The way I've been trying is to disable the Multiclip (there i find 16 tracks of audio all muted and channel 1 and 2 are not muted) which Is what I believe is what the multiclip it's using. If i want the tracks on A3 and A4 i swap them round so they are now on A1 and A2 but when I go back to the multiclip in the timeline and enable it only A1 is there and A2 is blank? Anyidea? Thank you!
When a track is blank, it's usually a sign that Premiere needs to render before it can display waveforms. This can be caused by things like audio effects, mismatches between the audio clip and the track format or an edit inside the multicam sequence that requires processing. I would recommend keeping the audio inside the multicam sequence as it is, but rearranging those tracks in your edit timeline (or even better, rearrange them in the Project Panel using Clip > Modify > Audio Channels).
@@ThePremierePro Thanks so much for your reply i really appreciate it. Alas the issue is I only have two channels to choose from when doing the audio channel box?
Ah, I see what your problem is now - the audio you want to use is one of the 16 tracks that's muted, right? So the multicamera sequence was probably created using the 'Camera 1' setting when it should have been 'All Cameras' (and then you could easily choose which audio you want to use). Is there a notable difference between the audio tracks that are muted and the ones that aren't? For example, does one have 2 channels and the other has 1 channel?
@@ThePremierePro correct. To be clear tho I can switch cameras with no problem. But i think your right It was multi clipped using camera 1 audio.
For the most part yes there is a noticeable difference. I believe some are lav and boom mic’s respectively. This particular scene has four people in it. I will say tho there are some that i can’t find clean the audio for so I guess I could syncing it again. It was all sync’d in resolve. I’m not sure why there are so many tracks tho I can only guess there should be 8 and one comes from each camera which has then been sync’d together. Thanks again for your help!
@@BenAllanCM No worries! Switching cameras is always the easiest part - it's getting the audio right that can be the headache. Of course, there's also the option to use Switch Cameras, to change the video and audio sources together - but in a scene with 4 people, I'd usually want all audio sources available during the edit.
I still have problems! Even after changing all of my channels and selecting all cameras, I'm still getting one track with audio and the rest of my tracks are just blank. Not to mention that proxies are screwed up if you change the audio channels. Anyone else getting blank tracks even when the all cameras option is selected?
Why is my "Create multicam camera source sequence" greyed out? Any idea?
Make sure your project window is active and you've selected multiple clips (one of them must have a video track).
@@ThePremierePro Just wanted to say thanks. This comment was exactly what I was looking for.
I'm having this issue where the audio waveform is flat and I cannot see it even if i click generate audio waveform. What is the solution please? I didn't get it form the tutorial, thanks!
Did you create your multicam sequence manually or using Clip > Create Multicam Source Sequence?
@@ThePremierePro select the footage, right click, create multicam source sequence. Also, Ive been having another issue, not sure if its a bug or sth im doing wrong:when i pass through a sequence again to modify the cuts it doesnt overwrite well, some cuts are still there, the camera changes but the physical cut on the clip doesnt go away, so its a bit confusing sometimes. Im new to this multicam workflow so it might just be it. Thanks a lot!
If you select all the clips in your sequence that used the multicam clips, then right click on one of them... go to Multi-cam...Enable. That's it! All you clips should now show the waveforms. It worked perfectly for me yesterday. Too many secrets to keep track of in Premiere, but so many of them are a Right-Click away.
@@KeithDadey I have two audio channels, and when I do this only the top audio clip appears, the other stays hidden...
All of this is fine, but it still bugs when I flatten my audio after the edit is approved. The correct audio content never is mapped in the timeline, and duplicates of certain audio source tracks populate the timeline, typically, the first 2 tracks are fine and the rest are all duplicates of the first track... Help! :)
How are you creating your multicam source sequences?
This does not help me.
Fir unknown reasons, I can only hear the multi-cam audio when I place the Sequence into my primary timeline. But I need to fine tune the clips within the multi-cam sequence. Which I can not do when I can't hear it while in the multi-cam sequence. It worked last month without issue and there have been no updates on this computer, due to using a older version of premiere.
Multicamera source sequences typically output one channel per speaker, so if you're inside a multicam sequence and using stereo speakers, you'll only hear audio from channels 1 and 2.
To hear more than channels 1 and 2, even with limited speakers, try this:
1. Click the *Monitor Channels* button (looks like a bowtie) at the bottom of the Audio Meters.
2. *Shift + click* the button to monitor all channels.
When the buttons are purple, the channels will be summed to all available speakers, making sure you hear everything even with a stereo setup.
@@ThePremierePro
Thanks and sorry for the late reply.
I've ran into a new issues that I'm hoping you can help me solve. Can't find he solution anywhere else.
This is a new one for me. Only two cameras used for the recording. But Premiere is spitting out two Multicam Sequences instead of one. Do you know how I can prevent this?
I'm getting a 32 channel sequence from FIVE 5.1 sources and ONE stereo. Tried it three times. Makes no sense whatsoever. I've used the same six cameras for multi sequences before and never had anything like this. Until someone can help me make sense of it, I'll be installing that free version of Resolve. My hunch is this is just yet another example of Premiere getting worse instead of betrer.
32 channels makes sense to me - (5 x 6) + 2 = 32. Also, multicam audio clips all need to have the same audio channel format.
Is There Any Premiere Experienced User that could help me out if a problem that I couldn't find the solution anywhere?
It doesn't seem to be a bug, but is definitely a super weird behavior.
The problem is Shown in this very short 3 min video:
Insert Project Sequence in Another Sequence Project Timeline - Adobe Premiere - Help - Problem
ruclips.net/video/-9BT_KSWfGU/видео.html
Any help would be extremely appreciated
It sounds like your sequences have In/Out settings that get applied when you use the Insert/Overwrite commands. To fix this, select all your sequences in the Project panel and choose Markers > Clear In & Out.
@@ThePremierePro
Thanks for the help, this problem drove me crazy for a While, so far I've been just dragging a dropping the sequence to the timeline of the assembled parts project, or even other ways to deal with it.
But I love to find ways to do things more productively, the with less clicks at the mouse.
I checked what you said, and all my projects are cleared of in and out, I even have a shortcut for "Clean In and Out"
But if I drop the sequence project in the timeline using the keyboard shortcut I still get the same result as shown at the video:
Insert Project Sequence in Another Sequence Project Timeline - Adobe Premiere - Help - Problem
ruclips.net/video/-9BT_KSWfGU/видео.html
Wich doesn't even make sense, why premiere would set in the end of the sequence that giant black hashed video excess. with no audio and no video.
So far I've been working that around.
Thanks for the help
Cheers.