Edit FASTER Using Multi Cam in DaVinci Resolve 18 | DaVinci Resolve Tutorial

[@JoshHanes]

Happy Monday, I hope you learned something!

[@Not-Only-Reaper-Tutorials]

good to say : it's also working fine with the Speed Editor ;-)

[@GhislainLeduc]

yes but what I am still unsure as it will be my first edit... is I have several clips of an interview that lasted one hour with 2 cameras... Do you process manually each clips as multicam or you select them all first and process multicam ? I think we have to do it each clip at a time but unsure :) I will try but if you can help here, it will save time :)

[@lewislrivera-penaloza851]

Best video ever, thanks

[@VUMEDIAGroup]

Quick tip, its much easier to just open the source multi-cam clip in the timeline and color grade each clip from there. That way you only need to grade the source clips, not all of the cut up clips on the main timeline. Also, multi-cam audio is buggy in DR if the camera has more than 2 channels of audio like the C70. I typically create the mult-cam clip, select the audio camera source in the multi-cam clip so that the desired waveform will show on the timeline, then I go back to the source audio track that I want and put that audio track below the multi-cam track, after synching them together I delete the multi-cam clip's audio track and lock the audio track and video track in place. This gives me back full control over the audio and prevents them from getting out of synch during the edit.

[@sandrolecirque]

what if I'm editing a multicam podcast with three separate audio sources? How do I get all three audio sources to be playing at the same time in multicam mode? That way I only need to do multicam edits to the camera angles but still have all three mics running throughout the whole video.

[@graffitisouth9994]

Came here to say exactly this!!! Way more time consuming to do the other way but this is a great tutorial. Premiere has this same feature and that’s where I started!

[@VUMEDIAGroup]

@@sandrolecirque That's another good example where DR's multicam audio solution isn't that helpful. The solution is simple though, just use the multicam clip for video, for audio place all of the audio tracks below the multicam clip, click Synch audio to synch them together, then perform a final sync to the master audio track from the multi-cam clip. To make things easier you will want a clap or something that all 3 mics can hear to synch that waveform spike between all three tracks so that they all synch up or you can use TC. The last step is to lock all of the tracks in place on the timeline so that during the edit you don't lose the synch.

[@alexandtrack]

@@sandrolecirque idk if this is helpful being so late but my workaround for this is to create a timeline to sync up all of my audio and then create a compund clip out of just the audio. i create new subclips of all of the videos so everything has the same start time and then make a multicam out of each of the video subclips and the compound audio clip. The audio clip will still show up in the multi-cam video viewer as a black screen but it can be ignored while the compunded audio clip is selected as the full-time audio source!

[@danielolaniyi9887]

Noted

[@packofgrass]

My left ear was very informed, thank you!

[@cmorellato]

me dangling the audio jack to see if it was the headphones lol

[@quickpickle]

🤣

[@davetriesthis]

This is one of the things that trips me up often when editing in Resolve. You have to go into the audio inspector when you have a mono track and set it up for both channels for it to be stereo. I've forgotten that step more than once. It would be nice for Resolve to have a project setting on what to do when mono audio is the main timeline track.

[@thelavanation]

After making a video that looks so good, I'm surprised he missed that lol...

[@JustGonzo]

I can hear via both channels, whaddayamean?

[@ssaller45]

I finally learned how to use Davinci Resolve after searching for about an hour! Thank you Josh. Keep them coming. You're a great teacher.

[@GrowaPairPodcast]

Legend thanks! Im going to use this method to edit my podcast going forward. Very well explained. Thanks again

[@S0K0N0MI]

Holy cow, this made my life somuch easier! I normally just plop every source into its own track and turn on the tracks one by one to cut and delete the bits I dont want. Now I can just let it roll and use the numbers to pick whichever angle looks best. So much quicker! Thank you!

[@MatthewOliphant]

Important to note: You have to be on the Edit tab for this to work. This will not work on the Cut tab-you won't get the multicam option there.

[@pipp33]

Perfect comment, thanks. I kept trying to figure out why I wasn't seeing the option, switched to the Edit tab and boom.

[@MatthewOliphant]

@@pipp33 I may have yelled "this video lies" just prior to figuring it out. :)

[@harpreetsidhuaustralia]

thanks champ

[@tttrrriiipppyyy]

Thank you !!!

[@willzombies]

Hero

[@TeaStained]

Great instructions, made editing my first 3 camera angle video much easier. Thanks so much 😊

[@listen2thebeatt]

Very helpful, thank you! Quick tip for color, add the 3 clips to individual groups in the color tab at the beginning. After you're done cutting you can just color one clip under the "Group Pre-Clip" tab and it'll apply to every clip

[@VlogCity]

Super clear and helpful. Thank you!

[@TailoredTechnique]

best multi tutorial, love the color grade too man

Thank you very much for the video. I would like to add that the shortcut for switching the clips (while in the Edit Tab AND in multicamera mode) is SHIFT+CAM NUMBER. Oddly the numbers of the numpad do not work with this shortcut, only the ones on the top of the keyboard.

[@JPOC226]

top of the keyboard is standard, but the SHIFT is wild... I use to use Premier Pro and it was just automatically just 12345 ect... No need for Shift... thats effing annoyiong.

[@jacobhutchinsband]

Thank you.

[@Dark-Markets]

Thanks, this was my one moment of inclarity (un-clarity?) with this tutorial.

[@Davy_Backlog]

I was about to ask what shortcut he was using. Thanks!

[@dangonzalez1785]

thanks for 3:29 out of nowhere the Multicam window disappeared so I was able to enable it again!

[@simonvosss]

You goanna save me hours with this 10 min video. Thanks man! Right on point.

[@gee4zfpv]

Question: as your cursor was stationary how were you switching angles?

[@Coatsey007]

Nicely illustrated, I particularly like the fact that I’m in the middle of a project and I needed to be taught this quickly so I could get on with it, so it was great not to have a load of other rubbish added for the sake of it, very powerful format.like a quick reference.

[@therallycry98]

Hey! is there a button you press to switch between multi-cams or do you just click on it?

[@jasonleeds2717]

41 seconds in after "turning off each individual layer" on my 3 camera interview. Thank you Josh, looking forward to the rest of the video.

[@musicalblades]

Holy cow, this is exactly what I needed! As a noob I struggled all weekend trying to line up six cameras in the edit page. One question, will the sync audio work for a concert where there’s a bunch of crowd noise?

[@masherahh]

when you said you 'hit number 3,2,1' were you pressing the number keys or did you set shortcut keys beforehand?

[@MarkSzorady]

"I'm gonna go and hit number 3." REALLY NEAT! Thank you! Yes, I learned something that I hope to use down the road. However, you omitted the mechanics on how you did this. What keyboard command are you using to chop this up? Are you selecting with the mouse? By the way, I'm running Windows, so I understand keyboard commands will be different.

[@DG-Vlogs]

HI Josh, how do you handle multiple sources of "good audio" eg recording a wedding where i will have a good audio from the groom microphone and a separate audio track from the officiant, I need to be able to include both those audio tracks in the final multicam and not just pick one?

[@TailoredTechnique]

I have multiple clips rather than just 3, when i do it, it does not work, any tips?

[@pablosacco1]

very clear , master... i can breath now. All the best.

[@mosesbukenya1999]

Hi Josh, just stumbled on your channel and just the watched the MultiCAM solution you uploaded. Indeed you've made my life 100x easier. Now am going to look like a Pro at editing :-) :-) in Resolve. Been going round the mountain to find the quickest way to edit multiCAMs. Cheers Bro, keep up the great work.

[@WilliamKitchens]

Great info but I need the audio as well for the mic'd up guest in the interview.... Host mic vs Guest mic.... podcast stuff... How do I make sure the cut includes the audio from the clip?

[@EddyL-zn7nq]

great video, significantly more informative and effective than everything else I've found. Thanks

[@AninaLonte]

Best explanation from all the videos I tried on KZbin on this subject. Thank you so much!

[@gasmanbutano5563]

thanks for the video, i have a question: i edit podcasts and the audio from mic recording is separate wavs so essentially i replace the audio from the camera with the proper wav recording. how does that work when creating a multi cam edit? currently i have 1 host shot 1 guest shot and 1 wide shot and 2 audio wavs but its come up as 5 angles... any tips for this? thanks

[@ΓιώργοςΚοσμίδης-κ6θ]

I have been working on videos that have 2 camera angles and are long in length and I've been "struggling" (more like taking much more time) with editing both of them at the same time. Thanks a lot for the tutorial

[@AlexVonCrank]

This was perfect for what I wanted to know!!

[@zhincic]

Sheesh! You've dropped some awesomeness, Josh :O

[@hauntswargaming]

This sounds a lot easier than i thought it would be 😅 Thanks for the video!

[@TheThrillerZone]

BRO, this was a quick and AWESOME mini-tutorial for someone just getting started on DR, and coming from PP. Cheers mate!

[@JPOC226]

PP was easier IMO.... this still isnt working for me...

[@TheThrillerZone]

@@JPOC226 I enjoyed PP until it just started dragging my system down. Once you get the hang DR smokes. And PS: it outputs in 1/5 the time of PP

[@JPOC226]

@@TheThrillerZone DR has been pretty good to me... Almost feel like i should spend the $300 bucks to unlock stuff. also this video did NOT cover some importaint topics like others did.... unless there was a change in DR since this video came out.,

[@lesmousai]

I'm so mad i didn't know this earlier. My boss taught me this on Premiere a day ago and immediately applied the workflow to Davinci thanks to your video. Well done tutorial!

[@santiproxg254]

video was really helpful!! thanks, u even explained color grading tricks!! thankss!!

[@desmonddolinschek5776]

This was so helpful. Just saved me a few hours editing my podcast videos

[@JoshHanes]

Glad to help!

[@davetriesthis]

Great quick tutorial. I used to do this in FCP, and had issues getting this working in Resolve.

[@NOTV.theband]

Thank you! Trying it out with our live performance video of our dance punk band now!

[@bernardwangg]

Thanks Josh for this video, i will post it on my upcoming release :D

[@HalfClickUp]

This video is EXCELLENT. Good work, Sir!

[@piranino]

Great and concise explanation!!! Thank you!!!

[@RickGrimmMusic]

This was hugely helpful! Thanks heaps legend

[@mrtwomore]

Appreciate the tips! Super helpful for me editing a interview!

[@gustavoremorofficial9774]

hey, thanks! great tutorial! concise explanation of process.in only 10 minutes!!

[@stealthmountsdistribution]

Thanks for this guide, but I have in my case one long clip from camera 1 and many short clips from camera 2 (20 clips). I can't have 21 multi-cams at once, I want have 2. Cam 1 as angle 1 och clips from cam 2 as angle 2, How can I solve that ? Thanks a lot!

[@awtprod]

Don't know if you ever got an answer for this, but the solution is to mark the clips as either "camera 1" or "camera 2" in the file meta data in resolve. Then when you're creating the multicam clip, there's an option to "match clips of from the same camera" (or something like that) and it'll enable meta data options (the camera # should be the default option). Hope this helps!

[@VynZography]

OMG you saved me so many hours of work!!! I was doing it the old way! Thanks!!!

[@gowine504]

Thank you for taking the time to explain it to us.

[@elder3670]

Always enjoy learning. Appreciate the video!

[@BrianSellers]

Great stuff, man - easy to follow and super-good info!

[@Keerationfilms]

@josh, thank you so much for this, I think you've explain this the best VS all the other videos I've watch so far Thank you!

[@nkoperweis]

This is a game changer for me

[@timraybouldguitar]

Thank you so much, I've been doing this the hard way the entire time!

[@GregBernsteintruckee]

Excellent video. Thank you. Super-helpful!

[@FlatironsTuning]

Thanks for this video, it was a huge help!

[@TheGoodContentExperiment]

Excellent video! Thanks for your help

[@ZamoraChristian]

thank you so much, this is extremly usefull, I just edit a tutorial of 2 hrs, and did not knew this existed. Really good tutorial

[@FluxOhHai]

Thank you for your information! helped a ton! 👍

[@travelingtoconsciousness]

this changed my life. THANK YOU!!!

[@seanpaulmagic]

thanks so much - very helpful and MIND BLOWING FEATURES. this would have taken forever with premiere pro years ago

[@valorreviews]

This was nice. Thanks for making this video.,

[@TheDAZ1001]

This just most likely saved me 2 - 3 hours lol. Awesome!

[@aerialphotographydrone2982]

Thank you Josh!

[@bhavya.prashant]

Thank you so much. Learned a lot!

[@IAMMRLIMA]

thanks man i appriacte itttt learned it just now and doing it yayaya

[@devincarson73]

This was so helpful! thank you!

[@DJ_finnjoe]

BRO! I am editing 1h DJ mixes with different angles all the time! Bro, that will change my life. Thank you!

[@JosephQaqish]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@Tim-Miller-]

This is great. What if your audio comes from a different source or what if you have edits in your original. For example, if it's an interview and banter needs to be cut out, how do you use multicam with that scenario?

[@ViciousXUSMC]

I do not know resolve yet, but I have to assume if you can pick your audio upfront to prevent it being switched when you star the cuts. Could you not also color grade the three cameras before doing any cuts to prevent having to copy and paste between all the clips. The whole tutorial seemed great until that last part, and I was thinking to mysef If this is how I have to do this then its not worth the trouble. With a lot of cuts it would be so easy to start missing a copy, or paste, select a wrong file, etc then mess it all up. Again you made it a point to ensure you didnt mess up the audio to have to fix later, wouldn't you also ensure you dont have to add trouble to fixing the color? So I would think a soluton to that problem should be a part of thet tutorial.

[@threemikescomedy]

Deffo need to practice with this. We tried it once and it didn't work out well with our setup.

[@kakarot22211]

Can someone quickly tell me how I can put more clips into my multicam without opening a new multicam

[@coderomes]

dude you explained that better than anyone

[@JulesO]

Great video, been using multicam on Davinci for years and there's one thing I still cannot comprehend. You know how whenever you hit either 1, 2 or 3 on your keyboard to make the camera change and then moving forward on the timeline, the camera that you pressed on continues to be on screen? Sometimes what happens on my projects is that if I click on a keypad number, it changes the frames before the cursor on the timeline. When this happens, the highlight on the multicam goes from red to blue, has this ever happened to you? I don't know what I'm doing wrong but this messes up my workflow bad and I cannot fix it!

[@alexandreespolet9828]

Fabulous tutorial.

[@JunaidKureshi]

Thanks a lot for this video, one thing i dont understand, why i cant hear the audio while editing, i have selected the right clip, i can see audio levels

[@gsfpv]

Great short tutorial, thanks!

[@ray___srw]

nice job, this one is very very useful

[@tneighbors]

What do you do if DaVinci can't sync one of your cam angles? Is there a way to manually add a clip to a multi-cam clip?

[@buknar456]

It seems like a whole other thing when you've got 2 camera interview and you chop that up, your audio for that is external/separate audio that needs to be synced, and then 2 camera performance footage (which is kinda acting like cutaway, b roll footage), that audio is also external/separate and needs to be synced, so the cuts in the interview VO track are dictating when you need to hide a jump cut, because of this and also external audio, compound clips etc I'm only finding it possible to do it the long way and disable/enable clips one by one to make sure I'm hiding the cuts properly on my interview track...I wish I could get a faster multi-cam workflow going that worked with external audio, compound clips etc

[@simoncockram]

amazing!! thank you

[@adventurewithchris]

What about when you film with gorpros and the video gets "chaptered" into multiple video files. Any recommendations on how to prepare the video for handling with multicam? Seems that having multiple video clips for the same camera will throw things off.

[@markgatus96]

You're a lifesaver!

[@fromtheshackpod]

Hey man. Great vid, great help. If i record audio seperately, so I have 3 video and my seperate wav file, can I add that as one of my clips and it will sync as normal?

[@JaredKauffman]

This was SOO helpful! Thank you so very much! 🙌🙌

[@kduceproductions403]

wish you would of spoke about using this method with using a external source as the audio .

[@harpreetsidhuaustralia]

is this studio version?

[@Respect2theFallen]

Thanks alot earned a subscriber

[@chrisverboven]

My pc is a intel i7 with 32 gb ram 1 tb hdd. In multicam the left window with 3 cameras does not plays smooth. What pc do you need for good multicam editing?

[@happilytogether]

Thank YOU so much for this!

[@trumpeterchris]

I am having trouble syncing clips any way other than manually - turning my clips into a multicam clip seems to undo the cyncing, and the auto align isn't working either. Is there a way to adjust clips after making them into a multicam timeline? I am a noob - hope my question makes sense!

[@jackoneil3933]

Thanks for the effort but how do you proceed and sync clips if it fails?

[@vimagostudio]

Thank you!

[@Craig07L]

I don't have the multicam option in the dropdown menu.

[@sharanjeetmand]

Yes I don’t see it either

[@antherecalane286]

Thanks for your video! I’m new at Davinci. When you were choosing which camera angle you wanted in the multicam timeline, how were you choosing the angle? I couldn’t tell how you were choosing angle 1, 2 or 3 along the timeline.

[@JoshHanes]

I was hitting 1, 2 or 3 on my keyboard

[@h2oski1200]

I was going to ask the same question, so thanks!

[@JoelKellenProductions]

Hey, for some reason, I can't make multicam cuts. I've tried just hitting the number keys, but nothing happened, and when I go into the clip menu and highlight the multicam cut option, everything is grayed out. I either have to use the multicam switch, which uses a different camera for the whole timeline, or I have to split the clip manually and then make the cut. Is there a way to fix this?

[@Griff100]

Greta Vid, TY. ? Could this be done with the coresponding audio tracks, if you had a differnt audio track for each angle?

[@mymerpodcast]

Wow, nice job... wondering if this can also be done if I have 8 clips but from 2 cameras, I had some issues while recording and had to stop and record several times, and adding to the pain, one camera did not record audio but thank god it did work for video and the audio was recorded separately. How can I make use of MultiCam if I'm in this scenario?

[@DejaGruvBand]

I have over 100 clips from a live band concert any tips how to attack synching all those clips to a master wav file?

[@SummitForWellness]

In this case you have 1 main audio source you want to use for all clips. What about if you record a podcast and have multiple cameras and multiple audio tracks you need to produce? I'm used to Premiere where when you make a multicam, it creates 1 video track and then layers all the audio tracks underneath, so the audio tracks can interact and not have hard cuts. Only way I can think to do it in Davinci right now is to add multiple audio layers and then select each camera for each track.

[@jamil_Sohail]

have you found any solution

[@jamil_Sohail]

??

[@DonnieLouis]

That's how I've been doing it

[@tylerwinter512]

I would bounce out just the audio all cleaned up and bring it back in the session on its own track and sync it to the video, then I would mute all the audio tracks on the videos. Treat your audio completely separate. Hope that helps.

[@chaddonal4331]

@@tylerwinter512 YUP!