User Manual

30 MultiCamera Editing
The Avid MultiCamera editing features let you incorporate multiple camera angle sources into
the nonlinear editing process. Techniques for using these features are described in the following
topics:
• Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips
• Creating Group Clips
• Creating Multigroup Clips
• MultiCamera Displays
• MultiCamera Editing Techniques
• Selective Camera Cutting
Understanding Grouping and Multigrouping Clips
The grouping and multigrouping procedures gather selected clips into a single unique clip. Both
procedures let you use special MultiCamera editing features, such as multi-split views in
MultiCamera mode.
The differences between the two procedures are summarized as follows:
• Grouping creates a separate group clip out of a single set of master clips, from the IN point
to the OUT point of the longest clip. Multigrouping takes the Group function one step
further, literally stringing numerous sequential groups into a rough sequence. For this
reason, multigroups are also known as sequence clips.
• The Group function lets you sync clips based on common source timecode, auxiliary
timecode, or marks placed in the footage. Because of the need for complete accuracy in
sorting and grouping the clips, multigrouping is performed on the basis of common source
timecode only.