Editing multiple camera angles without Group Clips
Just for purposes of comparison, let’s examine how we would have to edit without the benefit of Group Clips. Let’s use our previous example of a sit-down interview with one Interviewer and two people being interviewed:
Camera A: Interviewer
Camera B: Interview Subject 1
Camera C: Interview Subject 2
Camera D: Roams between a two-Shot of the Interview Subjects and a Wide-Shot that includes both the Interviewer and the Subjects
Without the ability to create Group Clips, you would have at least four video tracks; and you’d have at least two audio tracks (presuming the interviewer was recorded on one audio channel, while both subjects were recorded together on a different channel). Likely you’d have at least three audio tracks in this situation (each person recorded on a different audio channel), and possibly a fourth that was recorded with all the cameras’ audio channels mixed into one (as a safety/reference). In the Sequence, the video would be stacked onto different tracks and placed in sync with each other. You might configure the stacked clips like this (depending on your own preferences):
V1: Camera A
V2: Camera B
V3: Camera C
V4: Camera D
While editing like this is not impossible (there are a couple of different methods you might use, though I won’t bother you with detailing them), it is a great deal slower and more cumbersome than using Group Clips, whether you’re using MultiCamera Mode or not.
