in this video we're going through a
technique that allows you to edit
faster by using multi-cams for your
youtube videos
alright guys let's get into it
so right now i have multiple cameras
running i have
my main camera my a7s mark iii i have
the panasonic up here which is
doing my keyboard because there's going
to be some parts in this video where i'm
talking about the keys
i'm doing a screen record on my screen
because we're talking about editing
and then i have all my audio running
through my zoom so i have my microphone
up here
that's my main microphone for when i'm
talking to you but when i turn this way
then i'm going to be using this
microphone so that i have cleaner audio
over here
so essentially i have five inputs and
this can become super chaotic if you
don't use a multi-cam workflow
so what multicam does is it allows you
to take all of these
different sources and it automatically
syncs them up so it creates a single
file in your editing software
that then you can switch between your
cameras just by clicking
one two three four and then be able to
use the audio that you want from which
source
so it completely solves the issue when
you have all of these different sources
and this comes in handy all the time if
you're doing videos where you have
multiple cameras running
or you have multiple audio sources if
you put it into a multi-cam clip
it just saves you so much time on the
back end so the software that i use to
edit is final cut pro and final cut has
a great multi-cam tool
and in this video i'm gonna take you
through how you multi-cam
in final cut however if you're using
premiere if you're using resolve
if you're using some other editing
software they do have multi-cam options
as well but before i get into the
computer and show you how this all works
i just want to kind of set you up for
success i've done a ton
of multi-cam editing over the years i
have a fitness production company
and most the time we're shooting two
three four five six cameras
so i've been doing multi-cam workflows
for a long time and we don't do live
switching on set everything's done in
post
so i have to make sure that everything's
set up properly when i'm shooting
so that when we get into the editing
software things aren't jumbled
and one of the key things you want to do
is just leave all of your sources
running for the duration of the shoot so
while i'm creating this video here i
have the four different sources the two
cameras the audio
and the computer and i hit record around
the same time
and i'm just going to let these run so
if this takes me an hour to do this
whole tutorial
i'm going to let all these sources run
you never want to cut
because when you cut that creates a cut
point that then you have to sync up
it just makes it harder and if there's
sections where you stop and there's a
few minutes of dead time
it doesn't really matter as long as you
have enough cards and you have enough
batteries to be able to
blast the entirety of your shoot now the
second thing that you need to do is you
need to make sure you either have audio
or time code
running to all the sources now time code
is going to be more on the professional
side of things
but for most people if you just have
audio running to all of your sources
and all of the cameras and the audio
gear can hear what's going
on then the editing software is going to
automatically be able to sync it up
especially because there's only one take
per source
it's very easy to line that up so with
my cameras and my computer they're just
running scratch audio
and all my main audio is coming through
this and you'll see when we get in here
we're going to be using this audio the
zoom with the microphone up here
as our main audio source but we can
switch between all the different cameras
and when you're editing a multicam
workflow the biggest advantage is that
you can play in real time
and you can set it up so that when you
hit one it goes to camera angle one
when you hit two it goes to camera angle
number two when you hit
three it goes to camera angle number
three so when you're editing you can
play this in real time and it will be as
if you were watching a live performance
and you're just switching between the
cameras
that's what makes this workflow so
powerful you basically watch it through
once
you do your cut cut out any bad sections
within it and then you basically have
your first cut done
and then you do your second cut cleaning
it up and that's how i'm able to like
knock videos out super fast is by
using this style of a workflow so let's
jump into final cut and let me show you
how you set this up
and how you can edit using multicams all
right so this is some footage that i
have
from a tutorial that i'm working on
around color grading
with the loop deck so i have the loop
deck top down you're going to be able to
see
how i use this in the video i have my
screen recording that shows the color
grading that i'm doing
and then i have the talking head bits my
a-roll on top of that i have two audio
sources
so this is very similar to this video
i'm essentially doing the same multi-cam
edit about multicam editing because i
just did a multi-cam edit
of color grading so then i have my two
audio sources so one of these
is my zoom so that's the one here on the
desk
and then i have my microphone that's
above me and these are these two sources
here
so when you get into final cut you
basically bring in all of these clips
and you're going to want to create a
multi-cam now because they're single
clips
you can actually just highlight all then
right click and hit
new multi-cam clip and it will
automatically do this for you however
that does not work if you have like two
takes on
a single camera so if this camera
stopped and re-rolled or you're doing
multiple takes
that simple method doesn't work we have
to name each camera
so i this is something i do no matter
what style of multicam
it's just a good habit to name all your
cameras so that
when you make the multicam all of the
same camera is on the right
timeline and you're gonna see how this
works in a second so what i do is i'll
take my main camera
and you go over to your inspector on the
right hand side you pull up your
inspector
and you'll bring up your menu on the
bottom here and you want to click on
extended so when you have clicked on
extended you'll see
camera angle and camera name and you'll
want to give these a name so i give each
camera or source a name i go
a b c d it's the easiest way to do it i
think
so i'll go through i'll name each of
these a b c d
and e and then i'll do that same thing i
said earlier so i'll highlight
all the clips that i want in the
multi-cam i'll right-click
and i'll select new multi-cam clip now
you can title your multi-cam clip i'm
going to call this
just all because it's all the footage
that i'm using and you want to have
setup
use audio for synchronization and then i
just use the auto settings
if you click the button use custom
settings then you can actually set what
your multicam is going to be
so let's click custom settings because
instead of 4k maybe you want to make
this
a 1080 multi-cam maybe you're not doing
a 4k
output but for me i always want to use
the highest resolution i'm always
editing in 4k
and then i'll down convert later to 1080
if that's something that the client
needs on youtube i export everything as
4k so i keep it all in 4k i use a 4k
workflow
i just use automatic settings and use
audio for synchronization
this is key because at the beginning
like i said you need to have all of your
audio sources collecting audio
so that when you click this button it
does it all automatically for you
it's going to do the synchronization
it's going to create this multicam clip
you can see right there it's got the
four
squares on it and it's labeled all i'll
double click that
and this is basically a compound clip so
you can see that
in this video clip labeled all there
is five layers and you can see right
here on the left hand side camera a
camera b camera c camera d camera e
so if you had multiple takes for camera
a they would all be on that a
timeline this is why it's important to
name your cameras
so that is your multi-cam now let's pull
up our timeline
so let's create a new timeline we're
going to do
multi-cam sample
so now i have just an empty timeline now
i'm going to bring this multi-cam
down onto this timeline and you'll see
it just looks like a typical video clip
there's not five layers here it's just
one layer
so you're only seeing one camera but
everything is embedded
in this one compound multicam clip so
what you'll do is go up to your viewer
click view and you'll click the angles
now the keyboard shortcut is command
shift seven
and that's what i use because it makes
it easier but that pulls up
all of your angles so right now i have
my window set to
scene four but there's actually five so
you could set up
a display of two four nine or sixteen
just depends on how many angles you need
to see when you're editing
a lot of times when i'm using this i'm
doing it for two cameras because when
i'm doing my youtube videos
i might have two cameras rolling at the
same time it just makes it easy to
bounce between but in a situation like
this i have a lot more cameras so i'm
probably going to use the four settings
so i can see at least all three cameras
so i'll click nine and then you could
see all right there's
five in there but we're not gonna be
really using these audio ones in this
viewer
because the audios are gonna be more
consistent i'm not gonna be jumping back
and forth between the audio as much as
i'm gonna be jumping back and forth
between the cameras
so i'm gonna set up to four so i can get
as much view of these three cameras
so now when you start editing you just
hit play on the spacebar
and say i want to do the loop deck i'll
just click the three button
it automatically cuts to that now i'll
click the two button
it goes to my screen record i go click
the one button
goes back to me so you can see in real
time how you're able to edit
and just click one two or three or four
or whatever
but what this is doing right now is
cutting both your video and your audio
so it's using the source from the camera
and using the source from the screen
record
we don't want to do that we want to
separate them out because we want the
audio from
the microphone or the microphone
whatever microphone is your main
microphone that's what you want to keep
consistent because you don't want the
audio pinging around so what you're
going to do in this upper right hand
corner
is you're going to separate out what
you're cutting so this icon right here
this is enable video and audio switching
you'll want to click on the one next to
it which is enable video switching
only so now when you go down to your
timeline you'll want to set
which audio you want to use so i'm going
to right click
on my mouse and i'm going to click
active audio angle
and i'm going to use the audio angle
that makes sense for the period that i'm
working in so this is the section where
i'm talking
essentially the same shot i want to use
this audio that is d
so i'll click d it's going to be audio
from my d
source and then as i play and i'm
cutting
the audio will stay consistent and now
when you see this you'll see there's a
bunch of cuts here on the timeline
but the audio is still all from the d
source
now let's say you want to change the
source maybe you don't want to use d and
you want to use e
the other microphone right here well you
can go through and right click
click active audio angle and click e and
it's going to switch
it's going to be whatever you selected
so between two cut points now a couple
other things that really make this
workflow fast
is that once you do your initial cuts
you can go through and clean these up
so you can click on the cuts between and
you could just slide the cut forward or
back
and then also you could just like delete
sections out so as you're editing you
can cut sections out
and this is still a multi-cam clip but
you're just cutting out a section of
that multicam clip
so i might blade tool these delete that
do active angle a
i'm going to go through this i'm going
to cut to b
to c back to b back to a
actually what if i want to change this
clip well you can do that
you just right click bring up your
active audio angle and you can change it
so you can go through after you edit and
clean up all your cuts and switch
cameras
you just have to right click and you can
change the audio or the video
for that specific section that you've
highlighted and when it comes to your
multicam workflow
that's how simple it is to get your
initial cut done
so you can see how powerful this tool is
to be able to put everything
into a multi-cam clip and then just do a
live
cut and basically edit your videos in
real time so guys i'd love to hear your
thoughts about this down in the comments
down below
and i highly suggest after watching this
you check out this video right here
which is all about making your videos
more interesting with doing
cuts in and out so that you're not doing
just like straight jump cuts
and what's cool about this method is you
can create your multicam timelines
and have different edits of the same
camera source jumping in and out
alright guys i will see you over there