3 Replies Latest reply: Jan 31, 2014 1:07 AM by davidtarrodi RSS

    Flatten multicam weirdness

    vsoprod Community Member

      I am finishing up a multicam project. Setup and editing of the multiple cameras went very smoothly. This was a 45 minute concert video. After getting all the camera cuts right I wanted to flatten the sequence and then trim out the dead areas.

      When I flattened the sequence there were sections where the clips had diagonal bars and no video played in those sections. I undid the flatten and opened up the nested multicam sequence and found that in those areas there were some gaps on tracks that were not active tracks. (i.e. camera3 was active camera 1 had a small gap. I found if I put black video in the gap things seemed to work.

      This happens on my work computer and home computer Both are mac pros, one is an 8 core 2008 machine running 10.8.4 the other is a 12 core running 10.9. Both are runing  Premiere 7.2.1

      I ahve plugin on my project, so to verify that it wasn't the plugins I built a multicam sequence with just video and flattened that and got the same result.

      One thing I also discovered is if I double click on the sections with diagonal lines and no video, they will open in the source monitor and play fine there. If I drag that clip back to a timeline it goes back to the diagonl line no video state.

      Any ideas?

        • 1. Re: Flatten multicam weirdness
          davidtarrodi

          Can some other Premiere users or preferably someone in the Adobe staff please make this test:

           

          - Make a sequence and put som black video in it, name the sequence seq1

          - Put seq1 into a new sequence, name it seq2

          - Right click and enable multicam for the seq1 clip inside seq2

          - Flatten the seq1 clip and notice that everything works fine

          - Undo the flatteing, go into seq1 and make multiple edits using the razor tool (not moving any clips, just making cuts)

          - Go to seq2 and perform the flatten feature once again and see what happens

           

          In previous versions of PRP you would end up with the exact same source clips and edits in seq2 as in seq1 after flatteing, which is what you really want. In PRP 7.2.1 you end up with one single clip with diagonal lines beacause of the timecode being misplaced. Somehow the flatten feature in Premiere 7.2.1 gets confused by edits inside of a multicam sequence.

          • 2. Re: Flatten multicam weirdness
            vsoprod Community Member

            Definiteley needs to be fixed. At the moment kind of useless unless there is a real workaround. My workarounds seem to work then they don't very frustrating.

            • 3. Re: Flatten multicam weirdness
              davidtarrodi Community Member

              Come on Adobe! I really need this issue to be fixed. I work on several projects a month using your great multicam feature but ever since the upgrade to 7.1 the last step of my workflow - flattening the timeline - to send it to davinci resolve will not work! There have been several premiere upgrades with no fixes of this issue. I really need the flatten feature to work as it did in premiere cc 7.0!! PLEASE!