Edit a Multi-Cam Project

Multi-Cam brings recordings of the same event into one folder, with a shared transcript and an editable programme: the combined edit you play and export. Camera changes select the picture for a passage; they do not require you to cut the same dialogue separately for every camera.

Create the Multi-Cam folder

Choose the route that matches your starting point:

• New recordings: click Create Multi-Cam Project in the empty workspace, or the library’s Create a Multi-Cam project from media… button. Select at least two video or audio files and let the import finish.
• Already imported: select at least two projects in the library, right-click, and choose Create Multi-Cam Project.
• Existing folder: right-click a project folder containing at least two projects and choose Use as Multi-Cam Set.

Keep the projects in one catalog. Files already imported into different catalogs cannot share the new folder. Include at least one recording with video; an audio-only set cannot supply the programme picture.

See Import Your Media for file access and import troubleshooting.

Review the recordings and synchronize

In Review Multi-Cam, check each recording’s Role rather than relying on its filename:

The Speaker picker appears for camera and speaker-audio roles when named speakers are available. You can also adjust roles and speaker associations later in the inspector.

Choose Auto Sync to compare the recordings’ audio waveforms with the set’s reference recording. Progress appears in the Action Center. For reliable synchronization, the recordings need matching audible material; the reference needs accessible media, an audio track, and at least five seconds of duration.

Not Now saves the setup and opens the programme without waveform synchronization. It does not confirm that the cameras are aligned. Until the setup is reliably synchronized, automatic editing keeps the default angle rather than suggesting speculative camera cuts.

Auto Sync currently classifies audio-only recordings as External Audio, and video recordings other than screen angles as Camera Angle. Check the inspector afterwards; do not assume a Speaker Audio or Wide Angle role chosen before synchronization was retained.

Open the programme or a camera variant

Expand the folder and choose View Multi-Cam to work on the combined programme.

Each camera row represents an imported recording with editable variants. In the inspector, Selected Variant chooses the version of that recording used by the combined edit. Use this when you have alternate edits of a camera recording; changing it can change the material available to the programme.

A programme is owned by the Multi-Cam folder, not by any single camera. Create or switch programme variants using the variant tabs when you want alternate combined edits. Camera variants and programme variants are different editing targets: check the active tab before changing the transcript or visual composition.

See Organize Projects, Catalogs, and Variants and Player and Playback Tools.

Choose audio and create the shared transcript

An External Audio recording supplies shared programme audio independently of the visible camera. If several recordings have that role, the first one is used as the shared external source; that role is not a multi-file mix. Without linked external audio, the programme uses the reference camera’s selected child variant and its audio selection.

Speaker Audio recordings are separate synchronized microphone sources. They are not camera choices. Check roles, speaker associations, and playback before relying on a setup with multiple microphones, especially after Auto Sync.

Open the programme and use Transcribe if it has no transcript. Programme transcription uses the linked external source when present, otherwise the reference camera’s audio. If that camera uses a custom audio mix, Sequence asks you to transcribe the camera angle that owns the mix instead.

When creating a set from recordings that already have transcripts, Sequence prefers an existing transcript from the external-audio recording; otherwise it prefers the longest recording with a transcript. The folder then has one shared transcript, shown in programme time or aligned to each camera's time. Switching the picture does not transcribe another camera.

Make text corrections, exclusions, silence edits, and ordering changes in the intended programme variant. See Transcribe, Edit, and Clean Up. Deleting the shared transcript affects the Multi-Cam family, not just the open tab.

Choose angles and make cuts

1. Open View Multi-Cam and select the intended programme variant.
2. Select the transcript passage you want to show from another camera.
3. Right-click and choose Visual Composition, then choose the named angle.
4. Repeat for other passages. The selected ranges become camera changes in the programme.

You can also select one or more enabled rows in Clips and use Visual Composition there. Choose Picture in Picture or Split Screen, then a pair of angles, to show two views together. The pair’s order determines the primary and secondary views. Use Default Composition removes the visual override for the selected passage or clips.

These choices change the picture, not the shared audio source. They belong to the active editing variant. Ordinary transcript exclusions and Clip edits still determine which material is retained.

For reliably synchronized sets with multiple eligible cameras and at least two detected speakers, Sequence can suggest camera cuts from speaker activity. Camera Speaker associations guide those choices; a Wide Angle can cover overlapping speakers. A single detected voice does not establish camera ownership, so it keeps the default view. Review suggestions in playback; manual visual choices are preserved when automatic suggestions are refreshed.

If a passage has the wrong speaker attribution, select its words and use the transcript context menu's Speaker choices to correct the label. This is different from associating a camera with a person in the inspector. See correct who said a passage.

For additional graphics or placed media rather than camera changes, see Layers and Reusable Assets.

Resolve unavailable recordings before export

• Low-confidence or failed synchronization: the set remains marked for attention. Do not treat an estimated offset or a saved setup as verified alignment. Listen and watch across the recordings before making final camera choices.
• A camera starts late, ends early, or has a mapping gap: selecting it outside its available coverage leaves an unavailable span. Sequence does not silently replace that choice with another camera.
• Missing files or lost permission: use the affected camera’s Locate action to restore access. Missing-media mode makes transcript and Clips editing read-only where it applies. Missing linked external audio is not replaced automatically with camera audio.
• Export reports unavailable camera, stream, or audio spans: relink the required files or change the affected visual selections before exporting. Direct rendering and editor timeline export reject unavailable selected material.

Export the combined edit

Open View Multi-Cam, select the programme variant you want to deliver, and review its picture and audio. Export that programme rather than a camera variant when you want the combined result.

• Export Finished Media renders the selected programme’s edit and composition.
• Export to Final Cut Pro covers the editor handoff. Compatible synchronized camera cuts can travel as a shared multicam clip so you can continue switching angles in Final Cut Pro.
• Export to DaVinci Resolve Studio covers Resolve’s handoff and format constraints.
• Sequence Packages preserve the project setup for transfer or continued work in Sequence, rather than delivering a finished movie.