This blog you can find the work I did on how to edit with multiple cameras. My group filmed the footage, but I edited it myself. My teacher provided a template for the blog post.
What is Multicam Editing?
Multicam editing is the process of editing footage of a single scene or subject recorded from different cameras and angles. Showing the same scene or subject from different angles helps make the video more dynamic and visually captivating for your audience
Multicam editing is the process of editing footage of a single scene or subject recorded from different cameras and angles. Showing the same scene or subject from different angles helps make the video more dynamic and visually captivating for your audience
Shooting
Our subject, a classmate, stood in the centre of the room and did a short performance. My group stood around the subject to record the performance from different angles. You can also see members from other groups because we did this lesson as a class. To make it easier to synchronise our cameras, the teacher clapped at the start of the scene. This allowed us to line up the video in the editing process and ensure that the transitions would be smooth. Without this simple action it would have taken a lot longer to sync the videos.
Behind the Scenes
Here are the raw videos from my group members:
My Editing Process
- Upload the videos to the editing software (Capcut Pro)
- Muted the clips
- Sync/Line up the video files together through visual cues
- Cut where I want the edit to happen
- Don't delete the clip, just lower the opacity. This way it can be used again later
Here is my final edited video:
Self-Reflection:
With our previous task to making a mini music video, my team and I got to try out multicam technique but I found that this task was a very insightful as I got to learn a different way of editing a multicam scene. Since I previously edited by deleting unnecessary scenes, I found the opacity trick taught by our teacher to be extremely helpful since it would be harder for me to accidentally move clips out of sync. Although, I am not sure if I enjoy the technique because it overloaded the workspace in Capcut with cuts and clips which would sometimes confuse and overwhelm me. I think knowing this method now will definitely be helpful as I may consider using this in the final project
Some challenges I faced were with the synchronization of the videos. I did recall, based on my previous experience, that Capcut does not automatically show the audiowave (it requires me to detach the audio) so I decided to experiment with syncing the videos through visual cues instead (based on the movement of the star) as I believed it would be easier. However, this was a bit time consuming since it needed to be exactly the same movement in the same timing. With the limited time we were given to edit, I didn't have the ability to research a better way of this so I think I'll look into more efficient methods.