Create Manual Multicam Sequences (Premiere Pro 2020)

I’m sharing how to manually create multicam sequences in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Includes how to:
- Automatically set up your output channels
- Create multicam presets with one click
- Choose which audio tracks to include

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:52 Set the audio channel format (media)
00:01:38 Create the multicam sequence
00:03:49 Create a sequence preset
00:04:49 Add media
00:05:15 Set the audio channel format (sequence)
00:06:13 Enable multicam editing
00:06:36 Add the multicam sequence to the timeline

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

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[mikedamus]

This is the best workflow to setup multicam in Premiere I've ever seen. One question, whats the difference of setting this up as multichannel vs standard tracks? Why is your preference for standard? And does this affect exporting single track stems? Thanks so much this is beautiful.

[DaveDwyer]

My god Adobe have messed this up. Back in the day you could simply right click on the nest sequence and choose create Multicam. This is ridiculously over complicated.

[chapdoc]

3:41 When I create my multicam offline file, and double-click it, I only get 1 audio channel. ??? What am I doing wrong?

[GriffinPatrickDavis]

really helpful video! QUESTION: If I recorded audio in stereo do I still need to pan the audio tracks? Was wondering what the purpose of panning the audio was

[luigimacairan]

This helped out tremendously thank you

[Malwens]

This is absolutely fantastic. I have 2 multicam projects which I decided to cut in Premiere but with audio timecode coming from Tentacle sync, I would get a sequence with everything in sync, but it wasn’t seen by Premiere as true multicam. I’ll follow your steps later today and give this a whirl. Thank you so much!

[chapdoc]

Hi Paul. Will this work if two video channels are scaled and two are proxies with the proxy toggle button on?

[JohnLeccese]

hi - great vid - is there somewhere to enable/show the output channel routing? not seeing it below the pan knob in my mixer like in your video. Tried prefs and everything else I can think of. thanks

[beminefilms]

You champion! This is so helpful. Cheers!

[flip.design]

New question please Paul. I've been pulling hair out with this one. I haven't had audio issues with multicam until receiving footage from Sony FX6. Now when I create multicam sequences, I can get the desired result in the multicam, but when I then nest that so that I can edit it, I can get the two main microphones on separate mono channels but all sound is only playing through the left speaker. I've tried your manual method but it doesn't fix my problem. Why might I not be getting a combined channel mono output to both sides? I've also watched multiple of your other videos such as "Split Clips from Stereo to Mono".

[BPFilms]

What if one of my clips has no audio or corrupted audio, is there a way to manually make sync them into one multi cam sequence?

[olib]

Great video! Was down to my last pieces of hair before finding your video.
The audio files from the multicam won't generate any waveforms, I render audio to get them, but it reverts every time I reopen Premiere and now I'm down to waiting half an hour each time I open the program. Any thoughts?

[Pranav_m_Mistry]

Enable multi-cam from source monitor was a neat trick. Was not aware if we could do that.

Question for you-
After enabling multicam. The new clip when taken on a timeline to edit. The audio name is same as clip name (the new multi-cam clip), but the video is picked from the source clip name. Can you share a workaround if you know it.

PD: renaming the clip also doesn't change update the clip name.

Will be helpful. Thanks

[krushannaik]

Okay... So it took me a moment to understand the whole process. But very, very helpful. Thank you! My question is, what about color correction at the end? Is there a way to color correct the entire source clip at once, which would update in the Multicam sequence automatically?

[danielszalai]

Hi Paul, Thanks for the video. Despite watching closely and following all the steps I end up facing a big issue all over again: whenever I drag the NewMulticam sequence in to the editing sequence (MySequence) as the last step, it doesn't appear as multicam sequence but a regular multi-channel sequence. What could be the cause? I am having the exact same problem also when I try to set up my working sequence based on another video on your channel "Create Multi-Cam Clips | Adobe Premiere Pro + PLURALEYES 4". Please note that my starting point is a manually synced sequence on a timeline. Thank you so much in advance!

[benm]

Hey Paul! Thanks for the video. What exactly is the reason for panning left to right on the even/odd channels? I'm editing a project where another editor set the multicams up with this method, and I am literally getting full panning on playback, so I've been manually removing the pans. Thanks!

[chapdoc]

Audio Track Mixer - Why are my track output channel assignments greyed out? I can’t modify them. And each track says MIX instead of MASTER. ??? HELP!

[Pranav_m_Mistry]

New question: When viewing footage in multi-camera view. Is there a way to make premiere to stop adding cuts unintentionally on the clip while switching a camera?
I am on version 14.2

Please guide.

[rsmstudios]

But, if you have multiple tracks from different cameras which started and stopped at different times you're not going to be able to do markers. This is why every time I create a Multicam I make sure the audio is on every camera. This way it's easier to sync to the audio. But as you can see from my comment, I have WAY BIGGER issues ahead of me. Thanks for the video!

[benstillerman]

Thanks man - I feel like I'm going a bit nuts though... I think I followed it to the letter, and yet, when I have the final multicam source sequence (i can see it had the correct icon at least), and drag it into the sequence I want to edit in (just a plain old stereo sequence) it comes through as non-multicammed, just regular old synced and stacked clips... Am I missing something obvious here?