Working with Multicam media

While Chapter 2, Before the Edit: Production Tips, discussed how to shoot with multiple cameras and audio recorders, and Chapter 3, Bring It In: Importing Your Footage, showed you how to synchronize all that footage into Multicam Clips, we haven't looked at how to edit it yet — and there are a few differences compared to regular footage. This section will take you through the process of editing with Multicam footage, including switching angles, controlling which component of a clip is switched, and some of the smaller changes that Multicam brings.

Understanding Multicam footage

As discussed earlier, a Multicam Clip combines multiple angles together, synced in time. When you edit a Multicam Clip, you can choose which angle you want to see at any point, and which you want to hear:

Figure 9.1: Here, the same person was filmed from two angles at once, to demonstrate stretching

You can run the clip continuously...