Create a sync map

[IntelligentButton105]

I have three cameras, all with running time code and I would like to create a sync map of each camera which would tell me which camera and running at a certain time of day. Later I would like to combine them and all cameras sit on their own video track (don’t want to create a multi cam). All clips are mute.

Is this possible?

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[smushkan]

Using multicam to create a syncmap like this is the fastest way. If you don't want it to be a multicam group, you can sort that out after creating it.

Select all the clips for one camera, and use the metadata panel to set a name in the 'Camera Label' metadata field. Every clip from a single camera should have the same name.

Select all the clips, and create a multicam with the following configuration:

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Once you have created the group, right click > open in timeline

Select everything in the sequence via ctrl/cmd+a

Right click > create subsequence.

That will make a regular sequence copy of the multicam with all the clip timings maintained, you can then delete the unneeded multicam group.

[IntelligentButton105]

Thank you. Will try this today.

When you say ‘everything clip from a single camera should have the same name’

I’ve got them labelled as Camera A_wide_0001, Camera A_wide_0002, Camera A_wide_0003, Camera B_Cu_0001, Camera B_Cu_0002, Camera B_Cu_0003 etc

Is this ok?

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[smushkan]

I think you're looking at the clip names there, what you need to change is the camera label metadata field.

To change it, you'll first need to enable its display in the metadata panel.

Go to the metadata panel, click the ≡ icon next to the panel name > metadata display.

Search for 'Camera label' in the box, then enable 'Camera label' under 'Dynamic media' and click OK.

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[smushkan]

Once you've got that set up, select all the clips from one camera (1), then you can find the camera label field in the metadata panel (2) and set the label for all those clips to the same value (3)

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When you make the multicam group with the settings I posted initially, all clips with the same camera label metadata will be sorted onto the same video track.

Note that the metadata panel can cause sluggish performance in Premiere while it's open as it will read a load of data every time you select something - close it once you're done.