Multi Cam Audio Issues & How to Avoid Them (Premiere Pro 2020)

I’ll show you the most common audio issues and how to avoid them when creating your multi-cam sequences.

Find out how to:
SET your multicam audio correctly
DISPLAY audio waveforms for multicam tracks
SWITCH audio tracks in your multi-camera sequence
GET equal panning across speakers

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:10 Common Issues
01:29 Multicam Audio Settings
01:47 Audio Channels Preset
03:20 Audio Sequence Settings
03:41 All Cameras
05:04 Camera 1
06:11 Switch Audio
07:33 Recap

Thanks for watching 👍

Paul Murphy (The Premiere Pro)
Editor & Post Production Consultant

[chawlingtechtests]

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 YouTube !

[davideophile]

PHENOMENAL. Simply can't believe why they didn't enable "Audio follows Video" automatically when you select Switch Audio.

[ambarchakrabarti]

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.

[jerseyshoredroneservices]

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!

[cxfocus]

Thank you!! By far the best breakdown I've seen of how audio works in multi-cam clips. So helpful!

[Nysoupla]

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.

[WildWomenHealers]

So nice to see Paul Murph show up to answer my premier issues! <3 Shazz

[BrotherBloat]

the trick with adjusting clip audio channels to match before putting them into the multicam is amazing! thanks!

[RyanMarchand]

Possibly the most clear, concise vid I've seen on APP on YouTube! Subscribed! Thank You!! I will be back to your channel!

[bb]

06:51 Thanks man. This stupid little check mark... I tried so many things now. Awesome video

[ChristopherSauterJELLi]

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.

[editinglessons]

thanks for saving me. I was going nuts without know about the "Multi-Camera Audio Follows Video "

[Steven]

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.

[anjahose]

Thank you for these very specific audio-based Premiere tutorials!

[mvmpictures]

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.

[quasiguy]

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.

[KatieHunter]

Thank you so much for making this. I became increasingly enraged as you listed common issues, as I have ALL THESE PROBLEMS 🤣

[albertgaka]

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?

[FUBAR-OFFICIAL]

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

[billyschultz]

Most helpful video out there on multicam audio. Thank you!