Multi-cam bug?

[rando]

In Edius 4.5c I am having a small problem when using Multi-cam. I was editing a wedding the other day that was captured "The old fashioned way" meaning it was through Rex edit so it only broke the clips up every 9 min.. When I set up my Multi-cam edit a couple times (not everytime) when I hit a break point in the clips (say between clip 1 and 2) Edius would put in a "cut point" even if I didnt want one and the bad thing is I couldnt remove it so it would switch to camera one even if camera one was shooting the floor. It only happend a couple time during a 30 min ceremony which I then had to go back in the main timeline and drop in a clip over that point.

[GrassValley_KH]

So if you positioned your edit cursor on the clip join, and then double clicked on a different camera in the preview window, it didn't switch it?

Remember, Multi Cam is largely an automated way of dividing clips and enabling/disabling them as required. To this end, it's possible to force certain camera decisions.

[rando]

Multi-cam bug?

I guess it does, whats happening is where the 2 clips are next to each other theres a green switch marker which does switch BUT when I try to remove it it turns a light blue and stays. No matter what it still switches at that point even if I dont want it to.

[GrassValley_KH]

The blue marker represents the end (or beginning) of a multicam sequence. This is something added in 4.5. Since EDIUS isn't psychic and will know when the true beginning and end of a multicam sequence is, it provides a special In and Out cut for the logical cut points. In other words, the first in point of a second layer of video, and the first out point of a second layer of video.

It prevents occurrances (as in the past) of a multicam clip that extended well outside the sequence, being disabled simply because it didn't have the camera select toward the end of the multicam edit. A source of fustration for many, I'm sure.