Thank you for not just creating "oh I have 2 clips" video, I've wasted so much time searching for this and I'm so thankful! This seams like such an important part of using multicam clips its shocking I couldn't find it on other's! Great video and I cant wait to learn more about davinci now that I have made the switch from some "creative cluster of water" software!
Amazing video... just found myself asking "why the hell don't I know all this already!" Thanks for laying it out in a simple way. I think you just saved me an awful lot of grief.
omg!!!!! I spent few hours watching different tutorials and still asked the question on facebook. Thanks to Dmitry for sharing this video! I cant believe how well you've explained everything in just 5 minutes! Thank you!!!
This is so useful for those of us filming action cam videos where often there are multiple cameras shooting the same thing, but where you cannot align to waveform or even timecode (without messing with offsets). For example, I ride a dh trail with my mtb and my gopro and my mate follows with his...this is really the only way to multicam it neatly. Thanks!
I record with Filmic Pro, and have started looking to incorporate the other person that is doing FB-Live as the B roll. My first attempt was just add the live video as the B roll, ditch the audio; then cut and delete from the B roll. Gaps where the main video plays through, leaving in place for the B roll to be shown. Thank you for showing the more correct and proper way for doing this.
I can definitely see this as useful for any filmmaking with multiple angles on the same scene or even just having a documentary with different clips over the same audio. I'm actually excited to use this in some aspects. Thank you very much!
I use it for quickly editing live music performance videos using 4 camera angles. I might also start using it for editing wedding ceremony/documentary videos
SUPER useful tip! I’ve been doing a lot of multicam editing lately, one PTZ camera and one static camera, that splits into 4 or 5 different files. This will make my life SO much easier. Thank you! 🥇
Thanks! Mr. Alex. I had spent so much time trying to find out how to do this on this past wedding on Sunday. 3 cameras and audio would not align.uggg. I did a manual line up and still could not get a multi clip. I just did what you did step by step and it worked. Amazing! Thanks so much!!!
This is the kind of video that seems simple...but it´s full of tips that not anly apply for the main subject, but helps to solve other issues we have too. Thanks a lot.
Hello Alex. I am sending you this message from Germany and would like to thank you very much for your first-class videos. These are always very professional and well presented. Unfortunately, my English is not that good, but I can usually follow you well. It is so remarkable that there are people like you who continue to teach their knowledge. Thank you again for your excellent tutorials. Take good care of yourself and stay healthy! Greetings Mikel
You put this out to us in the most simplest way making it easy to grasp. I've been using Final Cut since it was attached to Macromedia and RECENTLY made the switch to Davinci Resolve. My projects are almost always in multi-cam and this quick tutorial just saved me hours as dropped Final Cut, cold turkey. Thank you.
2:00 any ideas on when this doesn't work? I have 2 clips that have identical waveforms and it says auto-sync failed, even though they're so similar I can line them up visually pretty quick. I'm trying to automate because I need to do this process ~30 times.
I started doing this a month ago with a live music performance filmed from 4 camera angles. I forgot I needed to push the little button on the top right of the screen. Thanks for the quick video!
Your videos are awesome. I've used DR Studio for years now but am always looking for refreshers or short, precise video on how to do something. Yours are the best. Thank you so much.
Good stuff... We must have had similar thoughts today as I put together a similar video. I think I got must of the information from Jason's video before. Didn't know about the create from Timeline though - that's very cool. Other thing that's useful is the display settings for the timeline where you can have timeslines "tabbed" so you can have your multi cam clip displayed on a tab to easily switch back it for any adjustments if required....
Thanks for this clear, precise explanation of how to do multicam editing. I have a three camera project similar to yours, and you showed me exactly what I needed. Cheers!
wow! thank you so much. you just saved me hours and hours of messing around, not getting this right. this is wayyyyy faster than what I was fumbling around with.
Note: this is a little different to a standard multicam! It's creating a multicam from a timeline which just gives a little more control. If you want to know more about multicam check out this in-depth video by Jason! th-cam.com/video/ZzPZe36RdkU/w-d-xo.html
This tutorial of Jason is about Resolve 16 and you can take basics from there, BUT version 17 is waaaay improved for alligning clips in multicam functionality (detect clips from the same camera!). We waiting for new improwed tutorial 😊😉
Excellent, I've been struggling to work out the best way to do my multicam video timeline with camera audio and 3 external audio tracks for days as Resolve has some real quirks with linked audio and trying to make Multicam clips ... other video's just missed the fact you can do what you did in this one. Thanks
Such great information.... Just about every video I make is a compilation of multiple camera angles. Sadly the auto align feature doesn't work on my videos, and I'm not sure if the multi-cam function would work in my situation either 🤔
This is just what I wanted to do ! Then I thought how do I get back to the original timeline if I wanted to adjust something; the answer, 'duplicate timeline' before converting to multicam clip as a backup. Thanks.
Awesome videos man, I refered back to your other video on resolve multicam, but can't find it anymore, if you removed it, could I have the unlisted link please?
Thanks for the video. I am working through a project that can definitely benefit from this. Before finding this, I would still line up all the clips on multiple video tracks and then just copy/drag my clips up to the the topmost track basically manually assembling a multicam clip. What if you covert a timeline to a multicam clip and then need to add another angle? If the context is confusing, let's say you're shooting a music video and after seeing the multi, you realize you need some pickup angles. How do you insert a new track into the multicam?
Great explanation! What's your advice on using multiple GoPro's (that create many 4GB files)? When I record my band, I usually start/stop the camera for the duration of a musical set (~ 1hr each x 3). Does this sound like the best approach? 1. Combine all 4GB clips into a compound clip for each "set" (for each camera), ending up with 2 compound clips 2. Sync the two compound clips (Auto sync doesn't seem to work because the clips are too long) 3. Create Multi-cam timeline (as you described) 4. Cut the compound "set" clip into "song" clips 5. Do the multi-cam editing on each "song" clip I also have 6 or 8 tracks of audio that need to be mixed down to 2ch stereo and applied to the timeline.
Thanks Alex. I do a lot of Multicam, Will try this on my next one! One big issue that really bugs me, is that when i import footage from my phone, or go pro, the audio is always 5-6 frames out of sync with the visuals. If this is a common issue with others, and you have an easy work around, would love to hear about it. As always really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and tips. My last video even includes your Glass transitions! Thanks Alex.
This seems so much easier than doing it in the cut page. I've got the speed editor, but just haven't been able to sort it out as easily as the edit page. Thanks Alex👍🍺
I have the same problem, but I want to be able to use the speed editor. I typically have drone footage which is broken up into clips, a Panasonic video camera and maybe some shots using a Nikon SLR which shoots video, but again broken up. For sound I may use some from the Panasonic, but generally it is music and sound effects. How do I do all this with the speed editor
I have been trying to work this out for Days !! Big help. Can you show us how to do the same thing while using the "Speed Editor" cam buttons and the sync bin? it seems more difficult. Thank you Alex for what you do 💪
For me it doesn't look like in the video... I literally do the same thing step for step, but when I create the multicam timeline I cant see the different angles, just the one you can set as standard. When I put it in .."multicam view mode" (eg 3:47, left viewing window) it just shows black screens and one which is light green for some reason. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong!!! Can someone help me?
Sometimes I need to makes chnages to the origianl multicam timeline, but I get lost becaus eof long videos, is there a way to see in the orginial time in highlighted which part I kept and whihc part I cut in the second timeline where I am editing in between the 3 angles?
Great video. I updated/upgraded to 17.2 yesterday and now video or audio are not playing in any of the projects. I tried a new project. Still same. Please HELP.
Thanks for the tutorial! Tried this for the first time and found a couple of pitfalls. Better do all of your color grading first as well as any clip editing. After you make the multi-cam timeline you're stuck with what you got! 😎👍
Brilliant. Thank u. Can u assign keyboard numbers to cut as its playing with the numbers or even the speed editor? Also what's the deal with the sync bin as ive seen a lot of videos saying to use that but I find ur technique so much easier and foolproof. Thanks for all ur help. New to davinci resolve 17 coming from premiere Pro
How would I go about using the audio from all 3 of my cameras in a multi setup? I'm only seeing the option for only using 1 of the cameras audio? I have everything lined up in the edit page. I have my 3 cameras audio mixed in fairlight. But I can only export 1 cameras audio and not all of them combined?
Do you know the best way to “media management” export a Multicam project that actually makes it smaller that the full raw clips the project started with? All my Multicam timeline exports for storage are still 90% the full size.
I shall give that I try. I haven’t been too successful in the past with multicam edits because of the source splits like you mention. It’s a pain trying to create a video from four different cameras and keep everything in sync. Thanks for the tip! Perhaps an idea for another video would be a multicam where you can’t sync on audio…
Great video...I will need to use this for my wedding edits for ceremony and speeches and I will have the 4GB file issue with my footage split into separate files but wanted to ask, in the video you select 1 audio angle to be your main audio to run throughout, in my case i will have good audio from a microphone on the groom and also a microphone on the officiant so how do you multicam the visuals to do the cuts but then do an audio mix from multiple sources plus id also like to get a bit of room ambient noise from my camera mics but at a lower level?
This works fine except that I lose all the markers I had put on my audio track to indicate where I should do a cam change . Is there a solution to this?
Alex great video, how do you handle multiple audio files.....eg shooting a wedding where I'll have 3 cameras which will pick up room sound via external mic attached to all cameras but my best audio will be voice recorders attached to both the groom and officiant and possibly a lecturn mic for any speakers so I could have 3 files of master audio.....how would you go about creating a multicam based on that? Do I need to do a sync of the 3 audio files into one timeline and export that as a single audio file and then reimport that as my single audio source to sync the video footage to? Sorry if not clear.
Thanks for the tuto :) I did everything as you showed but when I right click on my TL, I don't have the option to convert my TL into a Multicam (version 17.4.4)
Thank you for not just creating "oh I have 2 clips" video, I've wasted so much time searching for this and I'm so thankful! This seams like such an important part of using multicam clips its shocking I couldn't find it on other's!
Great video and I cant wait to learn more about davinci now that I have made the switch from some "creative cluster of water" software!
Amazing video... just found myself asking "why the hell don't I know all this already!" Thanks for laying it out in a simple way. I think you just saved me an awful lot of grief.
omg!!!!! I spent few hours watching different tutorials and still asked the question on facebook. Thanks to Dmitry for sharing this video! I cant believe how well you've explained everything in just 5 minutes! Thank you!!!
That auto aligned by waveform tip at 2:00 is key for me and my particular issue atm. That is awesome, I never knew it existed. Thank you!
WHO NEEDS MULTIPLE CAMERAS? Excellent! You're truly thinking outside the box with your videos! Thank you, Mr. Alex!
This is so useful for those of us filming action cam videos where often there are multiple cameras shooting the same thing, but where you cannot align to waveform or even timecode (without messing with offsets). For example, I ride a dh trail with my mtb and my gopro and my mate follows with his...this is really the only way to multicam it neatly. Thanks!
I record with Filmic Pro, and have started looking to incorporate the other person that is doing FB-Live as the B roll.
My first attempt was just add the live video as the B roll, ditch the audio; then cut and delete from the B roll. Gaps where the main video plays through, leaving in place for the B roll to be shown.
Thank you for showing the more correct and proper way for doing this.
I always come back to this for a quick how-to when working on projects that I suddenly need to multicam something within a big project. Thanks!
I can definitely see this as useful for any filmmaking with multiple angles on the same scene or even just having a documentary with different clips over the same audio. I'm actually excited to use this in some aspects. Thank you very much!
I use it for quickly editing live music performance videos using 4 camera angles. I might also start using it for editing wedding ceremony/documentary videos
SUPER useful tip! I’ve been doing a lot of multicam editing lately, one PTZ camera and one static camera, that splits into 4 or 5 different files. This will make my life SO much easier.
Thank you! 🥇
Thanks! Mr. Alex. I had spent so much time trying to find out how to do this on this past wedding on Sunday. 3 cameras and audio would not align.uggg. I did a manual line up and still could not get a multi clip. I just did what you did step by step and it worked. Amazing! Thanks so much!!!
This is the kind of video that seems simple...but it´s full of tips that not anly apply for the main subject, but helps to solve other issues we have too. Thanks a lot.
Hello Alex. I am sending you this message from Germany and would like to thank you very much for your first-class videos. These are always very professional and well presented. Unfortunately, my English is not that good, but I can usually follow you well. It is so remarkable that there are people like you who continue to teach their knowledge. Thank you again for your excellent tutorials. Take good care of yourself and stay healthy!
Greetings
Mikel
Wow, you write English better then a lot of English people do. way to go mate
Exactly what I needed, Thanks Mate. That right click is the thing I was after.
This tutorial popped out in my notifications just at the moment when I needed it the most! Thank you so much, Alex! You rock!
You put this out to us in the most simplest way making it easy to grasp. I've been using Final Cut since it was attached to Macromedia and RECENTLY made the switch to Davinci Resolve. My projects are almost always in multi-cam and this quick tutorial just saved me hours as dropped Final Cut, cold turkey. Thank you.
2:00 any ideas on when this doesn't work? I have 2 clips that have identical waveforms and it says auto-sync failed, even though they're so similar I can line them up visually pretty quick. I'm trying to automate because I need to do this process ~30 times.
2 years later and this video is still helping the community.. thanks alot, my editing speed should double if not triple now..
Editing my first podcast. Decided to learn before starting. Already feel that you saved me loads of time and effort! Thank you very much!
I started doing this a month ago with a live music performance filmed from 4 camera angles. I forgot I needed to push the little button on the top right of the screen. Thanks for the quick video!
I just started with multicam records, so this one was really helpful! thanks for this video! 👍
Your videos are awesome. I've used DR Studio for years now but am always looking for refreshers or short, precise video on how to do something. Yours are the best. Thank you so much.
Three years later this is still valuable. Thanks!
Great info, as always, Alex. Take care, stay safe.
¡Gracias!
Good stuff... We must have had similar thoughts today as I put together a similar video. I think I got must of the information from Jason's video before. Didn't know about the create from Timeline though - that's very cool. Other thing that's useful is the display settings for the timeline where you can have timeslines "tabbed" so you can have your multi cam clip displayed on a tab to easily switch back it for any adjustments if required....
I didn't even know what multicam was! This is awesome!
Woow, that's a lifesaving tip! Thank you so much for sharing
Thanks for this clear, precise explanation of how to do multicam editing. I have a three camera project similar to yours, and you showed me exactly what I needed. Cheers!
Great. This is the easiest way I've seen to do multicam editing.
Thanks!
I spent so much time looking for THIS method of doing multicam in Davinci. Thank you 🙏
you're definitely one of the best DaVinci teacher out there... Thanks again for all your amazing work
Wow! Timely.. Did a 2 cam with external audio this morning. Will try this out after supper. Thanks :)
Thanks so much! I have a bunch of multi cam edits and this looks amazing. I just got the speed editor! Thank you!
wow! thank you so much. you just saved me hours and hours of messing around, not getting this right. this is wayyyyy faster than what I was fumbling around with.
Brilliant thanks Alex just what I was looking for. Enjoying your channel long may it continue.
Finally! This is the workflow I was looking for. Thank you!
Thank you Alex! Great tutorial, super easy to understand ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
NICE! You always seem to figure out the coolest stuff! Thanks!
THANK GOODNESS THIS IS HERE. Alex you the best.
Thank you! Needed this just now. Short and simple. Sweet!
Note: this is a little different to a standard multicam! It's creating a multicam from a timeline which just gives a little more control.
If you want to know more about multicam check out this in-depth video by Jason!
th-cam.com/video/ZzPZe36RdkU/w-d-xo.html
This is the one that really got me up to speed👍👍
This tutorial of Jason is about Resolve 16 and you can take basics from there, BUT version 17 is waaaay improved for alligning clips in multicam functionality (detect clips from the same camera!).
We waiting for new improwed tutorial 😊😉
Excellent, I've been struggling to work out the best way to do my multicam video timeline with camera audio and 3 external audio tracks for days as Resolve has some real quirks with linked audio and trying to make Multicam clips ... other video's just missed the fact you can do what you did in this one. Thanks
OMG. I can see this helping me in editing music videos. I'm gonna try this stuff out. I might get be new and more flexible workflow
Such great information.... Just about every video I make is a compilation of multiple camera angles. Sadly the auto align feature doesn't work on my videos, and I'm not sure if the multi-cam function would work in my situation either 🤔
Thanx Alex - you make my day and solved my "Multicam" starting issue :)
This is just what I wanted to do ! Then I thought how do I get back to the original timeline if I wanted to adjust something; the answer, 'duplicate timeline' before converting to multicam clip as a backup. Thanks.
I love and hate how many ways there are in resolve to do the same thing because you can never remember them all but this is very simple and coherant.
Soooo true haha
Awesome videos man, I refered back to your other video on resolve multicam, but can't find it anymore, if you removed it, could I have the unlisted link please?
Thanks for the video. I am working through a project that can definitely benefit from this. Before finding this, I would still line up all the clips on multiple video tracks and then just copy/drag my clips up to the the topmost track basically manually assembling a multicam clip. What if you covert a timeline to a multicam clip and then need to add another angle? If the context is confusing, let's say you're shooting a music video and after seeing the multi, you realize you need some pickup angles. How do you insert a new track into the multicam?
WOW! I needed this video on 20 May 2021 :D. Thanks for this great insight Alex.
Great explanation! What's your advice on using multiple GoPro's (that create many 4GB files)? When I record my band, I usually start/stop the camera for the duration of a musical set (~ 1hr each x 3).
Does this sound like the best approach?
1. Combine all 4GB clips into a compound clip for each "set" (for each camera), ending up with 2 compound clips
2. Sync the two compound clips (Auto sync doesn't seem to work because the clips are too long)
3. Create Multi-cam timeline (as you described)
4. Cut the compound "set" clip into "song" clips
5. Do the multi-cam editing on each "song" clip
I also have 6 or 8 tracks of audio that need to be mixed down to 2ch stereo and applied to the timeline.
This is THE multicam video I was looking for. Thank you.
Waw, great help, amazing tutorial... one of the best teacher ;)
Thanks a lot Alex! Very helpful, exactly what I was looking for 🙌
Great explanation how multi-cam editing works.
How do you control which clip gets moved when you match the audio waveforms?
Thank you so much. This is the best. We love Resolve.
Thanks Alex. I do a lot of Multicam, Will try this on my next one!
One big issue that really bugs me, is that when i import footage from my phone, or go pro, the audio is always 5-6 frames out of sync with the visuals. If this is a common issue with others, and you have an easy work around, would love to hear about it. As always really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and tips. My last video even includes your Glass transitions! Thanks Alex.
Fantastic video just made my day a lot easier! Cheers
This seems so much easier than doing it in the cut page. I've got the speed editor, but just haven't been able to sort it out as easily as the edit page. Thanks Alex👍🍺
I have the same problem, but I want to be able to use the speed editor. I typically have drone footage which is broken up into clips, a Panasonic video camera and maybe some shots using a Nikon SLR which shoots video, but again broken up. For sound I may use some from the Panasonic, but generally it is music and sound effects. How do I do all this with the speed editor
desperately needed this video - you're the best!
I have been trying to work this out for Days !! Big help. Can you show us how to do the same thing while using the "Speed Editor" cam buttons and the sync bin? it seems more difficult.
Thank you Alex for what you do 💪
Yes, please!
For me it doesn't look like in the video... I literally do the same thing step for step, but when I create the multicam timeline I cant see the different angles, just the one you can set as standard. When I put it in .."multicam view mode" (eg 3:47, left viewing window) it just shows black screens and one which is light green for some reason. I just don't know what I'm doing wrong!!! Can someone help me?
Thank you so much - this saved me several hours of editing 😅
Excellent explanation!!!! Cheers from Northeast Florida - USA -
Perfect! Just what I needed. Now the explanation of the fixed image on screen please...?
Excellent - just watched again and this really helped
Morning Alex.....thanks for the video. Have a fab weekend.
Thank you 🙂 you too!
quick tip instead of clicking the clip to change the video angle you can just press the number key of the clip you want to change to
Sometimes I need to makes chnages to the origianl multicam timeline, but I get lost becaus eof long videos, is there a way to see in the orginial time in highlighted which part I kept and whihc part I cut in the second timeline where I am editing in between the 3 angles?
Great video.
I updated/upgraded to 17.2 yesterday and now video or audio are not playing in any of the projects. I tried a new project. Still same. Please HELP.
Thanks for the tutorial! Tried this for the first time and found a couple of pitfalls. Better do all of your color grading first as well as any clip editing. After you make the multi-cam timeline you're stuck with what you got! 😎👍
Right click on the multicam and open in timeline. You can then continue to cut and grade the clips as required 🙂
@@MrAlexTech Sweet! Thanks!!
Brilliant. Thank u. Can u assign keyboard numbers to cut as its playing with the numbers or even the speed editor? Also what's the deal with the sync bin as ive seen a lot of videos saying to use that but I find ur technique so much easier and foolproof. Thanks for all ur help. New to davinci resolve 17 coming from premiere Pro
This has been such a help. Thanks a million.
you always bring us something epic, have a great weekend my friend
Thanks for the helpful information Alex appreciate it
How would I go about using the audio from all 3 of my cameras in a multi setup? I'm only seeing the option for only using 1 of the cameras audio? I have everything lined up in the edit page. I have my 3 cameras audio mixed in fairlight. But I can only export 1 cameras audio and not all of them combined?
MY FRIEND THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Recently I discovered this on my own (shoulder-clap). Watched the video never the less...
This is exactly what I'm looking for! Thank you!
awesome, might have just saved me a tone of time, thanks MrAlexTech.
Thank you very much and I find it very useful in my concert video!!
can you tell me how to align 200clips like this?
filming wedding with 2 camera ?
Is it possible to keep the same audio track over all videos as you did, but every once and a while switch to a different cameras audio?
Fantastic Master, for when your D.R. crash course?,the best without doubt 👏👏👍
Do you know the best way to “media management” export a Multicam project that actually makes it smaller that the full raw clips the project started with? All my Multicam timeline exports for storage are still 90% the full size.
Do you know a way to be able to edit RAW tab for multicam video except "Flattening" multicam for choosen clip?
BRO! You just blew my mind with this video (maybe even saved my life. LOL) Thank you so much.
I shall give that I try. I haven’t been too successful in the past with multicam edits because of the source splits like you mention. It’s a pain trying to create a video from four different cameras and keep everything in sync. Thanks for the tip!
Perhaps an idea for another video would be a multicam where you can’t sync on audio…
super helpful and straightforward, thanks so much for the help!
great, simply and right to the point, thanks 👍👍👍👏👏👏
I assume this also extends to the Cut page and the Speed Editor?
Great video...I will need to use this for my wedding edits for ceremony and speeches and I will have the 4GB file issue with my footage split into separate files but wanted to ask, in the video you select 1 audio angle to be your main audio to run throughout, in my case i will have good audio from a microphone on the groom and also a microphone on the officiant so how do you multicam the visuals to do the cuts but then do an audio mix from multiple sources plus id also like to get a bit of room ambient noise from my camera mics but at a lower level?
God that was explained to perfection. Thank you!
This man produces jewels beyond price... So buy him a coffee instead :)
I'll take both 😆👍
Great one. Thanks.
This works fine except that I lose all the markers I had put on my audio track to indicate where I should do a cam change . Is there a solution to this?
Alex great video, how do you handle multiple audio files.....eg shooting a wedding where I'll have 3 cameras which will pick up room sound via external mic attached to all cameras but my best audio will be voice recorders attached to both the groom and officiant and possibly a lecturn mic for any speakers so I could have 3 files of master audio.....how would you go about creating a multicam based on that? Do I need to do a sync of the 3 audio files into one timeline and export that as a single audio file and then reimport that as my single audio source to sync the video footage to? Sorry if not clear.
Thanks for the tuto :) I did everything as you showed but when I right click on my TL, I don't have the option to convert my TL into a Multicam (version 17.4.4)