Monday, May 19, 2008

Premier Pro CS3 Multicam

Using the multicam support in PP CS3 is a pretty straightforward. WHen I first set it up I watched some chap's video tutorial (read as torturial) where he described the process with four cameras, explaining each process for each camera. Tedious.

Here's my abridged version from a developer's perspective:

create sequence 'multicam'
foreach camera source
{
import source to bin
create sequence
add video to sequence
add sequence to 'multicam'
}
create sequence 'final'
add 'multicam' to 'final'
right click 'final' sequence, select multi-camera and enable


Note that video track #1 will, by default, be used as the audio source. You can of course swap around afterwards.